Position: Head teacher
Job Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
Job type: Full-Time Permanent
Salary: £76,772 – £88,951
Deadline: March 18, 2026.
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As a Head teacher at Stanford Primary School, you will provide clear, inspirational leadership that shapes the vision, culture, and strategic direction of the school. You will be responsible for maintaining high standards of teaching and learning, ensuring that every pupil is supported to achieve their full potential academically, socially, and emotionally. Working closely with staff, governors, pupils, and families, you will foster a positive, inclusive, and nurturing learning environment rooted in strong values and high expectations.
The role requires a committed and visible leader who can effectively manage school operations, drive continuous improvement, and ensure full compliance with safeguarding, curriculum, and statutory requirements. You will lead and develop a motivated staff team, promote professional growth, and build strong partnerships with the wider community. As Head teacher, you will balance strategic leadership with a hands-on approach, ensuring Stanford Primary School continues to thrive as a safe, ambitious, and welcoming place for children to learn and succeed.
Benefits
- Attractive Salary – £76,772 – £88,951
- Cycle to work scheme – upper limit of £3,000
- Access 24/7 free counselling
- Training and development opportunities
- Interest free and low interest loan schemes
- Workplace savings scheme
- Health support
- Pension scheme
- Paid annual leave
- And more.
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Job Duties
Strategic Direction and Development: The Headteacher will
- Ensure the vision is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon by all.
- In partnership with all stakeholders, including the Governing Board, create a shared and strategic vision, identify and keep under review the aims and objectives of the school, formulate policies and plans for their implementation and development.
- Ensure the vision is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon by all.
- Devise and monitor, in close association with the Governing Board and the staff, an agreed improvement plan for the school, underpinned by sound financial planning, which identifies the key priorities and success criteria, necessary for continuous school improvement.
- Integrate and streamline systems and policies across both sites.
- Apply knowledge and critical understanding of current educational developments, policies and initiatives at both local and national level.
- Build and maintain professional high-quality practice throughout the school promoting continuous improvement in the quality of pupil experience.
- Ensure that strategic planning recognises the social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspects of life and takes account of the diversities that comprise the makeup of the school and wider community.
Leadership and Management: The Headteacher will
- Develop and promote an ethos and values that underpin the school.
- Create a culture where pupils experience a positive and enriching school life, building on what is already in place.
- Create and promote strategies for inclusion and celebration of SEND pupils in school life, ensuring that pupils with SEND are valued, supported and able to thrive.
- Ensure that the school remains committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and ensure that all staff and volunteers share this commitment.
- Oversee progress in all areas of school by agreeing performance criteria and monitoring progress towards their achievements.
- Build a cohesive and collaborative staff team across both sites, drawing on existing strengths and ensuring a high level of visibility.
NOTE
These duties are not exhaustive; additional responsibilities may be assigned by the employer. Kindly check the official website for the complete and most accurate description.
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Qualifications/Requirements
- Have a qualified teacher status
- Show evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience of leading and managing significant and successful organizational change
- Experience of working effectively with governors, establishing and sustaining a professional and productive working relationship
- Effective strategic planning and the ability to communicate a vision that inspires and enthuses others
- Proven ability to lead and motivate staff and build a cohesive and collaborative staff team.
Additional Requirements
- Have a proven track record of successful school leadership
- Have proven commitment to and/or teaching or leadership experience across the whole primary phase, from EYFS through to KS1 and KS2
- Have the skills to develop and articulate a shared vision and strategic plan that inspires and motivates the whole school community, working in partnership with governors and others
- Have the people skills to build a cohesive and collaborative staff team
- Have experience of leading significant and successful organizational change
- Demonstrate a personal commitment to inclusion and diversity
- Be a skilled communicator who is able to build positive relationships with all stakeholders
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