Executive Headteacher
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 06 Mawrth 2026 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 3NY |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7084e7af-fd40-43bd-bf57-3b1f1f6fdbb1 |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to lead an outstanding school at the heart of one of the region’s highest performing Trusts, while also shaping excellence across the wider system.
This role combines full-time leadership of Chesterton with strategic trust-wide influence, including driving bestpractice across the Eastern Learning Alliance (ELA) and contributing to external outreach and national programmes. Examples include Chesterton’s work as a DfE Attendance & Behaviour Hub and the Trust’s involvement in the DfE’s RISE initiative, where ELA acts as a supporting organisation and the CEO serves as a RISE adviser, as well as developing broader work in sharing best practice regionally and nationally to support schools in improving outcomes for disadvantaged students. It is an exceptional opportunity for an educational leader who is passionate about school improvement at scale, collaborative innovation, and delivering world-class outcomes for all.
What the school offers its staff
ELA staff benefits include:
• Reduced contact time to enable professional development;
• EAP with access to counselling & physiotherapy;
• Health care cash plan;
• Paid annual family day;
• Extensive discount club access;
• Cycle to work & electric car lease schemes;
• Enhanced parental leave;
• Flexible work practices;
• Laptop & mobile phone payment plans;
• Ticket ballots for high profile events;
• Generous annual leave allowance for support staff;
• Discounted gym membership for all staff.
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.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to lead an outstanding school at the heart of one of the region’s highest performing Trusts, while also shaping excellence across the wider system.
This role combines full-time leadership of Chesterton with strategic trust-wide influence, including driving bestpractice across the Eastern Learning Alliance (ELA) and contributing to external outreach and national programmes. Examples include Chesterton’s work as a DfE Attendance & Behaviour Hub and the Trust’s involvement in the DfE’s RISE initiative, where ELA acts as a supporting organisation and the CEO serves as a RISE adviser, as well as developing broader work in sharing best practice regionally and nationally to support schools in improving outcomes for disadvantaged students. It is an exceptional opportunity for an educational leader who is passionate about school improvement at scale, collaborative innovation, and delivering world-class outcomes for all.
What the school offers its staff
ELA staff benefits include:
• Reduced contact time to enable professional development;
• EAP with access to counselling & physiotherapy;
• Health care cash plan;
• Paid annual family day;
• Extensive discount club access;
• Cycle to work & electric car lease schemes;
• Enhanced parental leave;
• Flexible work practices;
• Laptop & mobile phone payment plans;
• Ticket ballots for high profile events;
• Generous annual leave allowance for support staff;
• Discounted gym membership for all staff.
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.