Job details Job role Assistant headteacher Visa sponsorship
Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Part time, full time
Contract type
Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
£51,072.00 - £56,316.00 Annually (FTE)plus £1500 recruitment and retention allowance per annum for 3 years
Assistant Headteacher job summary
Leiston is a 420 place school with a busy nursery.
Currently judged by Ofsted as 'Good'.
We offer our children a wide range of opportunities.
Leiston Primary School is a supportive and thriving environment working with pupils from a range of backgrounds.
We constantly look at ways to develop and extend our practice to support our role as part of the community.
We uphold a safeguarding ethos at the very heart of what we do and it forms our decisions on a day by day basis with the child's voice being a key part of this.
Our ideal candidate will work to ensure that the curriculum and assessment across the school are effective and implemented as well as respond to the day to day needs of the children and organisation as well as being a positive and welcoming force in the school.
We are looking for a leader who: is passionate about teaching and learning and is able to motivate and inspire pupils and colleagues is a positive and welcoming presence in the school and works effectively with all stakeholders has proven experience of effective phase and subject leadership understands the importance of shared culture within a school and knows how to promote this for the benefit of all is an excellent class practitioner has high expectations in all areas of school life is able to manage a team through a balance of support and challenge to secure best practice We can offer:
We are proud to be part of East Anglian Schools Trust (EAST) alongside Farlingaye High School, Kesgrave High School, Bungay High School, Castle East School, EAST SCITT and four other primary schools Wickham Market, Easton, Leiston and Saxmundham with whom we work closely with.
For an informal conversation please contact the school office on and ask for the head of school Lucy Melton or email
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
Visas cannot be sponsored.