Headteacher
| Posting date: | 19 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 January 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool, Merseyside, L25 2QF |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5713e83a-1e76-4ec5-8c5d-19d7ca4b407e |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Our new Headteacher will
• Be a highly experienced senior leader, with the vision to identify the next steps on our continued school improvement journey and the energy, drive and skills to lead and realise this.
• Be an inspirational leader able to engage and motivate all stakeholders, and build effective teams.
• Secure the highest educational standards whilst ensuring a culture and practice of care, wellbeing and support for our staff and pupils.
• Strive for excellence in all aspects to ensure that each pupil fulfils their unique potential.
• Respond and adapt effectively to changing circumstances, maintaining high levels of performance and motivation.
• Have the skills to recognise and promote all staff talents, expertise and continuing professional development.
• Inspire the whole community, build and maintain successful teams and work collaboratively with others to achieve success.
• Be committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of children, staff and the wider school community.
• Enjoy working closely with other schools learning from and sharing bestpractice.
• Be an ethical leader to inspire trust, uphold our values, and ensure every child achieves personal success.
What the school offers its staff
In return, we can offer you:
• Enthusiastic, motivated and happy children who are excited by learning.
• A highly supportive, effective and ambitious Governing Body.
• A dedicated teaching and support team committed to supporting all pupils.
• Ongoing professional development opportunities.
• A school committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of staff and pupils.
• The support from an experienced mentor plus a full training programme during your first year of headship, through SIL’s New Headteacher Programme.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Our new Headteacher will
• Be a highly experienced senior leader, with the vision to identify the next steps on our continued school improvement journey and the energy, drive and skills to lead and realise this.
• Be an inspirational leader able to engage and motivate all stakeholders, and build effective teams.
• Secure the highest educational standards whilst ensuring a culture and practice of care, wellbeing and support for our staff and pupils.
• Strive for excellence in all aspects to ensure that each pupil fulfils their unique potential.
• Respond and adapt effectively to changing circumstances, maintaining high levels of performance and motivation.
• Have the skills to recognise and promote all staff talents, expertise and continuing professional development.
• Inspire the whole community, build and maintain successful teams and work collaboratively with others to achieve success.
• Be committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of children, staff and the wider school community.
• Enjoy working closely with other schools learning from and sharing bestpractice.
• Be an ethical leader to inspire trust, uphold our values, and ensure every child achieves personal success.
What the school offers its staff
In return, we can offer you:
• Enthusiastic, motivated and happy children who are excited by learning.
• A highly supportive, effective and ambitious Governing Body.
• A dedicated teaching and support team committed to supporting all pupils.
• Ongoing professional development opportunities.
• A school committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of staff and pupils.
• The support from an experienced mentor plus a full training programme during your first year of headship, through SIL’s New Headteacher Programme.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.