THE PRIMARY FIRST TRUST: Leading Headteacher - Full-time

Start Date: Sep 2016

Pay: L27 – Bexley

Are you absolutely focused on Primary School Improvement?

Do you have the experience, passion and drive to effect change in more than one school?

Can you develop our Head Teachers who have led outstanding schools, good schools and brought schools out of special measures?

Do you have clarity of purpose about what is important in the lives of Primary School children?

The Primary First Trust is seeking to appoint a Leading Head Teacher to effect school improvement in the schools within our Trust. As its name suggests, we are passionate about Primary School improvement but we are not advisors, we are practitioners with a track record of professional achievements. The Leading Head Teacher will work with other practitioners in a very small number of schools and their support to the local Head Teacher and local Governing Body will be invaluable in providing the highest quality education to children within the Trust.

The Trust itself currently consists of seven schools in the South East and the Leading Head Teacher role will be a unique opportunity to work directly with the Director of Education to shape the educational opportunities for children.

We are seeking someone who:

• has the professional expertise, knowledge and ability to work successfully with Head Teachers, senior managers, teachers and governors;


• has excellent presentation and communication skills;


• has a proven track record in school improvement;


• is able to take a strategic lead in the professional development of school leaders; and


• is able to work as a member of a team providing strategic leadership to schools across the Primary First Trust.

For an informal discussion about the role with the C.E.O., Justin Smith or Director of Education, Katherine Powell.

Contract type: Full time/Permanent (0.6/0.8 available for the right candidate.)

Post Starting Date: September 2016 or January 2017

Closing date for application: Midday Monday, 13th June 2016

Interviews: 4 & 5 July 2016

If you are creative, committed to high standard and would enjoy a post that will provide a wide variety of interesting challenges, we would welcome your application.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.

Information about the trust

The Primary First Trust is a dedicated team of primary based school improvement professionals.

The fabric of our organisation is a profound understanding of primary schools and an individual understanding of their contextual needs.

The Primary First Trust is a growing group of self- supporting primary schools ranging from Outstanding to Special Measures. All schools within the Trust are committed to improving the life chances of every child with whom they work. When schools join The Primary First Trust they work with us on achieving our aims in a mutually supportive framework.

Our School and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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