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Headteacher

Job details
Posting date: 23 December 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 21 January 2026
Location: Bristol, BS20 7JF
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 35697961-8f00-4a7e-a951-ed84a920e82c

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key information about Trinity Anglican-Methodist Primary School:

• NOR: 374 plus a 50-place nursery
• Age Range: 3-11
• Ofsted: Continues to be good/taking effective action (December 2024)
• SIAMS: Excellent (March 2020)

Trinity is a two-form entry primary school in Portishead’s Village Quarter. Our strong community and dedicated staff drive our success. We seek a headteacher to build on this excellence and foster a welcoming environment where everyone thrives. We set high standards and nurture individuals with courage, integrity and a sense of pride and belonging.

Are you an experienced senior leader who:

• Is excellent at building relationships with pupils, staff, the parent community and members of the Trust Local Committee
• Can drive improvement in an already successful school, using a breadth of evidence and feedback to identify strengths and areas for development
• Has a strong understanding of distributed leadership and can support others to be the best versions of themselves
• Understands the value of investing time and energy into building community relationships
• Values collaboration and trust-wide working

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

• Engaged and confident children who are keen to learn and positively contribute to their school community
• A welcoming, dynamic and supportive staff team who have a shared ambition to help every child thrive and achieve
• An engaged, committed and ambitious parent community who work in partnership with staff and leaders in all areas of the school’s work
• Excellent support from an effective MAT and collaboration with other trust schools
• High-quality CPD to develop your leadership

Further details about the role

School Visits

You are warmly invited to visit the school on the following dates:

• Monday 12th January 2026, 9:15 - 10:45am
• Wednesday 14th January 2026, 1:30 - 3:00pm
• Friday 16th January 2026, 11:00am - 12:30pm

To book a visit please contact the school office on 01275 397710 or enquiries@trinity.bwmat.org

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.

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