Headteacher
| Posting date: | 23 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 January 2026 |
| Location: | Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 0SS |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | e83d5157-133b-4fe9-8328-1883678286a6 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications
• Degree and Qualified teaching status
• Post-graduate qualification
• Evidence of up-to-date CPD
• Further post-graduate qualification
Experience and knowledge
• Proven experience across the whole primary phase eg: working knowledge of EYFS, KS1 and KS2
• Commitment to include and provide for every child
• Proven track record of successful school leadership
• Proven track record of raising and sustaining educational standards and successfully leading change
• Proven track record of driving forward vision and values
• Excellent knowledge of current and future educational developments impacting on primary education
• Ability to lead and inspire high quality teaching and learning
• Ability to inspire, demonstrate and support the pursuit of excellence and highest expectations for all
• Leading performance management of staff
• Experience of working closely with Governing Body in setting and monitoring priorities
• Previous experience of successful headship
• A successful record of working with partners within and beyond education
Personal and professional skills, attributes and attitudes
• Passionate about education
• Lead by example with high professional standards
• Enthusiastic, resilient and energetic
• Ability to maintain high standards and have a calm and methodical approach to work
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise workload and meet urgent deadlines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate very good standards of literacy, numeracy and IT skills
• Excellent analytical skills to drive school improvement
• Ability to lead and also work as part of a team
• The ability to organise and manage effectively
• Sense of humour
• Commitment to, and genuine interest in, the pastoral welfare of the school community
• Ability to maintain a positive, professional demeanour
• Ability to show sensitivity and objectivity in dealing with confidential issues
• Honest and trustworthy
• Flexibility to change at a moment’s notice
Partnership
• Able to build and maintain effective relationships with all stakeholders, including the wider community to enhance the education of all members of the school community
• Demonstrates a commitment to partnership with parents and the community to raise standards by supporting the learning of children and helping realise the distinctive vision and values of the school
• Able to strengthen our strong link and partnership with Harewood Infant School and the Gloucester Schools’ Partnership
• Is committed to work with and learn from other schools and external partners while remaining focussed and present for staff, children and parents
• High profile in existing school and community
What the school offers its staff
Harewood Junior School is a highly successful school and our children do very well. We have been judged to be a consistently “Good” school (latest inspection July 2024); and despite the challenges that life brings for many of them, our children achieve consistently above their local and national counterparts.
Our children are individuals; our staff are talented and committed; and our governing body will offer dedicated support. We are in our sixteenth year as a co-operative trust foundation school, working extremely closely with our sister infant school and other local schools in the Gloucester Schools’ Partnership: together we are at an exciting stage in our schools’ development and considering the future direction of our partnership work. We gain significantly by working collaboratively on Research and Development projects, career-stage CPD programmes and school improvement networks. This work has been further strengthened by a more rigorous School Improvement Programme and an independent SIA who provides high levels of challenge as well as support. The headteacher network element of this partnership will prove to be especially helpful, with personalised support for the new Headteacher. These two partnerships are vital and our new headteacher will need to share the same commitment to working with them as they continue to move the school forward.
Our current Headteacher has brought about significant improvements over the last sixteen years and our next headteacher will be someone who also understands how to inspire teachers and children; who delights in working with children; and who is committed to securing our children’s true potential, socially, emotionally and academically.
We can offer a highly competitive salary; a happy and pleasant environment to work in, as we benefit from a large and well-kept site and building; and we have an amazing staff team who are all committed to the values, vision and ethos of the school and who will relish working alongside you in the next stage of Harewood’s journey.
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.
Qualifications
• Degree and Qualified teaching status
• Post-graduate qualification
• Evidence of up-to-date CPD
• Further post-graduate qualification
Experience and knowledge
• Proven experience across the whole primary phase eg: working knowledge of EYFS, KS1 and KS2
• Commitment to include and provide for every child
• Proven track record of successful school leadership
• Proven track record of raising and sustaining educational standards and successfully leading change
• Proven track record of driving forward vision and values
• Excellent knowledge of current and future educational developments impacting on primary education
• Ability to lead and inspire high quality teaching and learning
• Ability to inspire, demonstrate and support the pursuit of excellence and highest expectations for all
• Leading performance management of staff
• Experience of working closely with Governing Body in setting and monitoring priorities
• Previous experience of successful headship
• A successful record of working with partners within and beyond education
Personal and professional skills, attributes and attitudes
• Passionate about education
• Lead by example with high professional standards
• Enthusiastic, resilient and energetic
• Ability to maintain high standards and have a calm and methodical approach to work
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise workload and meet urgent deadlines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate very good standards of literacy, numeracy and IT skills
• Excellent analytical skills to drive school improvement
• Ability to lead and also work as part of a team
• The ability to organise and manage effectively
• Sense of humour
• Commitment to, and genuine interest in, the pastoral welfare of the school community
• Ability to maintain a positive, professional demeanour
• Ability to show sensitivity and objectivity in dealing with confidential issues
• Honest and trustworthy
• Flexibility to change at a moment’s notice
Partnership
• Able to build and maintain effective relationships with all stakeholders, including the wider community to enhance the education of all members of the school community
• Demonstrates a commitment to partnership with parents and the community to raise standards by supporting the learning of children and helping realise the distinctive vision and values of the school
• Able to strengthen our strong link and partnership with Harewood Infant School and the Gloucester Schools’ Partnership
• Is committed to work with and learn from other schools and external partners while remaining focussed and present for staff, children and parents
• High profile in existing school and community
What the school offers its staff
Harewood Junior School is a highly successful school and our children do very well. We have been judged to be a consistently “Good” school (latest inspection July 2024); and despite the challenges that life brings for many of them, our children achieve consistently above their local and national counterparts.
Our children are individuals; our staff are talented and committed; and our governing body will offer dedicated support. We are in our sixteenth year as a co-operative trust foundation school, working extremely closely with our sister infant school and other local schools in the Gloucester Schools’ Partnership: together we are at an exciting stage in our schools’ development and considering the future direction of our partnership work. We gain significantly by working collaboratively on Research and Development projects, career-stage CPD programmes and school improvement networks. This work has been further strengthened by a more rigorous School Improvement Programme and an independent SIA who provides high levels of challenge as well as support. The headteacher network element of this partnership will prove to be especially helpful, with personalised support for the new Headteacher. These two partnerships are vital and our new headteacher will need to share the same commitment to working with them as they continue to move the school forward.
Our current Headteacher has brought about significant improvements over the last sixteen years and our next headteacher will be someone who also understands how to inspire teachers and children; who delights in working with children; and who is committed to securing our children’s true potential, socially, emotionally and academically.
We can offer a highly competitive salary; a happy and pleasant environment to work in, as we benefit from a large and well-kept site and building; and we have an amazing staff team who are all committed to the values, vision and ethos of the school and who will relish working alongside you in the next stage of Harewood’s journey.
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.