Headteacher
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 19 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 2BY |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 4f85c34d-18ad-4cf3-ab19-fefe5d6c739d |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Purpose
The Headteacher creates a positive and appropriate learning environment through the Leadership and Management of a school. Their duties include helping deliver the highest standard of education to the students, supporting Teachers and staff and ensuring an overall safe and successful school environment.
Strategic Direction and Development of the School
• Provide inspiring, creative, and purposeful leadership for the staff and children.
• To work in partnership with the Trust, governance, staff, and parents, generating the ethos and values which will underpin the school.
• To co-create and implement School Improvement Plan which will secure continuous improvement and support the principles of Mercian Educational Trust.
• To keep up to date with current research into education, particularly teaching and learning and to contribute to the school improvement planning.
• To monitor and evaluate the performance of the school and respond and report to the governing body and the Trust as required.
• To ensure that management, finances, resources, and administration of the school supports its vision and aims and maximises value for all children.
• To ensure that policies and practices take account of national, local, and school requirements and apply sound educational practice through evidence-based pedagogy.
• To regularly monitor, evaluate and review the impact of policies, priorities and targets and take rapid action to improve if necessary.
• To inspire all those involved in the school to commit to its aims, to stay motivated to achieve them and to be involved in meeting long, medium, and short-term objectives to secure the educational success of the school.
• Develop an outward facing school to collaborate with other academies in the Trust, parents, the wider community, and partners to champion best practice and enhance the education and safeguarding of children.
• Attendance at meetings outside of school hours.
Teaching and Learning
• Continue to maintain an environment that promotes and secures outstanding teaching, effective learning and high standards of achievement, behaviour, and attendance.
• Determine, organise, implement, and monitor the curriculum and its assessment and ensure that statutory requirements are met.
• Ensure that children develop study skills to learn more effectively and with increasing independence.
• Determine, organise, and implement a policy for the personal, social, and moral development of children.
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and learning and achievement of all children through appropriate methods.
• Determine and implement policies which ensure inclusion, diversity, and equality of access for all children. Leading and Managing Staff.
• Plan, allocate, support, and evaluate work undertaken by groups, teams, and individuals, ensuring clear delegation of tasks and devolution of responsibilities.
• Implement and sustain effective systems for the management of staff performance, incorporating performance management and target setting in line with the school’s improvement plan.
• Promote and monitor the continuing professional development of all staff to support career progression and the academies succession planning.
• Hold staff to account for their professional conduct and practice, both contractually and where relevant as specified in the Terms and Conditions of Service of Teachers.
• Ensure that a Deputy Headteacher or suitable person, assumes responsibility for the discharge of the Headteacher’s function at any time when absent.
• Teaching in exceptional circumstances.
Efficient and Effective Deployment of Staff and Resources
• Work with governors and senior colleagues to recruit, retain, deploy, and develop staff of the highest quality.
• Make arrangements for the security and effective supervision of the school buildings, their contents, and the grounds.
• Set appropriate priorities for expenditure, allocation of funds and effective administration and control inline with the Trust’s agreed financial arrangements.
• Manage and organise the accommodation efficiently and effectively to ensure it meets the needs of the curriculum, health and safety regulations and community use.
• Manage, monitor and review the range, quality, and use of all available resources in order to improve the quality of education, improve children’s achievements, ensure efficiency, and secure value for money.
• Promote harmonious working relationships among the staff team.
• Lead and manage the staff with a proper regard for their well-being and legitimate expectations, including the expectation of a healthy balance between work and other commitments.
Accountability
• Continue to develop a school in which all the staff recognise that they are accountable for the success of the school. Ensuring the celebration of success as well as addressing areas of weakness.
• •Present a coherent and accurate account of school performance in a form appropriate to an audience, including governors, the Trust, parents, OFSTED, and others to enable them to play their part effectively.
• •Ensure that parents/carers and children are well informed about the curriculum, attainment, and progress and about the contribution they can make in supporting their child’s learning.
• •Provide information, objective advice, and support to the Governing Body to enable it to meet its responsibilities for securing effective teaching and learning and improved standards of achievement, and together with efficiency and value for money
What the school offers its staff
Why Join the Mercian Educational Trust?
At MET, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking, ambitious and deeply collaborative Trust where everyone works together to support, challenge and uplift one another. We invest in our people because we know that when staff thrive, pupils thrive. Here’s what you can look forward to:
Salary Sacrifice Schemes
•Cycle to Work
•Electric Vehicle Leasing
•Tech Benefits
Exceptional Wellbeing Support
24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and App
Free Health Essentials
•Annual flu jab
•Regular eye tests
Real Career Progression
We’re a Trust that actively grows talent
•Move across schools or central teams as new roles arise.
•Access rich CPD, coaching and collaborative learning.
Top-Tier Pension Schemes
•Teachers’ Pension Scheme for teaching staff.
•Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff—
A Culture Built on Collaboration
You’ll join a community where:
•Staff regularly work across schools to strengthen practice.
•Leaders share expertise to raise standards Trust-wide.
Practical, Everyday Benefits
•Free parking on or near every site.
•50% discount on wraparound care across all MET schools (Nursery provision excluded
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.
Job Purpose
The Headteacher creates a positive and appropriate learning environment through the Leadership and Management of a school. Their duties include helping deliver the highest standard of education to the students, supporting Teachers and staff and ensuring an overall safe and successful school environment.
Strategic Direction and Development of the School
• Provide inspiring, creative, and purposeful leadership for the staff and children.
• To work in partnership with the Trust, governance, staff, and parents, generating the ethos and values which will underpin the school.
• To co-create and implement School Improvement Plan which will secure continuous improvement and support the principles of Mercian Educational Trust.
• To keep up to date with current research into education, particularly teaching and learning and to contribute to the school improvement planning.
• To monitor and evaluate the performance of the school and respond and report to the governing body and the Trust as required.
• To ensure that management, finances, resources, and administration of the school supports its vision and aims and maximises value for all children.
• To ensure that policies and practices take account of national, local, and school requirements and apply sound educational practice through evidence-based pedagogy.
• To regularly monitor, evaluate and review the impact of policies, priorities and targets and take rapid action to improve if necessary.
• To inspire all those involved in the school to commit to its aims, to stay motivated to achieve them and to be involved in meeting long, medium, and short-term objectives to secure the educational success of the school.
• Develop an outward facing school to collaborate with other academies in the Trust, parents, the wider community, and partners to champion best practice and enhance the education and safeguarding of children.
• Attendance at meetings outside of school hours.
Teaching and Learning
• Continue to maintain an environment that promotes and secures outstanding teaching, effective learning and high standards of achievement, behaviour, and attendance.
• Determine, organise, implement, and monitor the curriculum and its assessment and ensure that statutory requirements are met.
• Ensure that children develop study skills to learn more effectively and with increasing independence.
• Determine, organise, and implement a policy for the personal, social, and moral development of children.
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and learning and achievement of all children through appropriate methods.
• Determine and implement policies which ensure inclusion, diversity, and equality of access for all children. Leading and Managing Staff.
• Plan, allocate, support, and evaluate work undertaken by groups, teams, and individuals, ensuring clear delegation of tasks and devolution of responsibilities.
• Implement and sustain effective systems for the management of staff performance, incorporating performance management and target setting in line with the school’s improvement plan.
• Promote and monitor the continuing professional development of all staff to support career progression and the academies succession planning.
• Hold staff to account for their professional conduct and practice, both contractually and where relevant as specified in the Terms and Conditions of Service of Teachers.
• Ensure that a Deputy Headteacher or suitable person, assumes responsibility for the discharge of the Headteacher’s function at any time when absent.
• Teaching in exceptional circumstances.
Efficient and Effective Deployment of Staff and Resources
• Work with governors and senior colleagues to recruit, retain, deploy, and develop staff of the highest quality.
• Make arrangements for the security and effective supervision of the school buildings, their contents, and the grounds.
• Set appropriate priorities for expenditure, allocation of funds and effective administration and control inline with the Trust’s agreed financial arrangements.
• Manage and organise the accommodation efficiently and effectively to ensure it meets the needs of the curriculum, health and safety regulations and community use.
• Manage, monitor and review the range, quality, and use of all available resources in order to improve the quality of education, improve children’s achievements, ensure efficiency, and secure value for money.
• Promote harmonious working relationships among the staff team.
• Lead and manage the staff with a proper regard for their well-being and legitimate expectations, including the expectation of a healthy balance between work and other commitments.
Accountability
• Continue to develop a school in which all the staff recognise that they are accountable for the success of the school. Ensuring the celebration of success as well as addressing areas of weakness.
• •Present a coherent and accurate account of school performance in a form appropriate to an audience, including governors, the Trust, parents, OFSTED, and others to enable them to play their part effectively.
• •Ensure that parents/carers and children are well informed about the curriculum, attainment, and progress and about the contribution they can make in supporting their child’s learning.
• •Provide information, objective advice, and support to the Governing Body to enable it to meet its responsibilities for securing effective teaching and learning and improved standards of achievement, and together with efficiency and value for money
What the school offers its staff
Why Join the Mercian Educational Trust?
At MET, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking, ambitious and deeply collaborative Trust where everyone works together to support, challenge and uplift one another. We invest in our people because we know that when staff thrive, pupils thrive. Here’s what you can look forward to:
Salary Sacrifice Schemes
•Cycle to Work
•Electric Vehicle Leasing
•Tech Benefits
Exceptional Wellbeing Support
24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and App
Free Health Essentials
•Annual flu jab
•Regular eye tests
Real Career Progression
We’re a Trust that actively grows talent
•Move across schools or central teams as new roles arise.
•Access rich CPD, coaching and collaborative learning.
Top-Tier Pension Schemes
•Teachers’ Pension Scheme for teaching staff.
•Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff—
A Culture Built on Collaboration
You’ll join a community where:
•Staff regularly work across schools to strengthen practice.
•Leaders share expertise to raise standards Trust-wide.
Practical, Everyday Benefits
•Free parking on or near every site.
•50% discount on wraparound care across all MET schools (Nursery provision excluded
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.