Job vacancy title / Assistant Headteacher
Number on roll / 419
Salary / L1 – L5 (£38-598 - £42,597 per annum)
Hours / 1.0 FTE (includes 0.8 FTE Teaching commitment for Year 2 class)
Contract type / Permanent
Commencement date / 1st January 2016
Advertisement closing date / Thursday 8th October 2015 at 12.00 noon
Interview date (if known) / Wednesday 14th October 2015
“This is a school which fully lives up to its motto: ‘Together taking every opportunity to make our best better’. Pupils make outstanding progress in their personal and academic development throughout the school.” Ofsted 2012.
We require an Assistant Head to join our School Leadership Team, leading our Year 2 and Year 3 teaching team. The role comprises a Year 2 class commitment for 4 days per week, with one day per week non-contact leadership time. It is desirable that the successful candidate would also undertake the role of English Subject Leader.
If you have a passion for learning and want to share it, along with a desire to lead and inspire, we want to hear from you. We want to appoint an energetic, enthusiastic, dedicated, forward thinking individual who will establish a great rapport with staff and pupils and enjoy working in our large, vibrant school. Our friendly, dynamic team are dedicated to making learning challenging, exciting, infectious and fun.
This is an exciting time to join our leadership team as we look to increase our strategic capacity. Malmesbury C of E Primary School was judged outstanding by Ofsted in September 2012 and converted to an academy on 1st June 2013.
Our innovative, forward-looking team always strives together to “take every opportunity to make our best better” and our eager, inquisitive pupils love a challenge. Our school has a great reputation for developing creativity, ICT in the curriculum and sport.
There is a strong culture of nurturing and developing talent and the supportive staff and governors are committed to continuous professional development for all.
The successful candidate will:
  • Have a passion for learning.
  • Be able to inspire pupils and staff to achieve their best.
  • Have high expectations of all groups of pupils and staff to ensure they reach their potential.
  • Be creative and innovative in their approach to teaching and learning.
  • Have good behaviour management skills.
  • Demonstrate high levels of emotional literacy and a committed team mentality.
  • Support our values of respect, kindness, courage, creativity and independence and be sympathetic to our Christian foundation.
You are warmly welcomed to visit our school, and further information about our school is available on our website
Please contact the school office on 01666 823514 or to arrange an appointment to visit or to request an application pack, or download it using the links supplied here.
Malmesbury C of E Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants will be subject to a full Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed.