Job details

The Governors of Oswald Road Primary School are looking to appoint an EYFSAssistant Headteacher.

Are you looking for the next step in your career, a new challenge and opportunity to widen the positive impactyou have through strategic leadership and management?

The sucessful candidate will be passionate about making a difference and share our belief in the importance of relationships and our core values.

They will want to work in a large, diverse, urban primary school and understand the wonderful and unique
opportunities and challenges this can bring.

The successful candidate will also:

  • Be personable and friendly
  • Be committed to their own professional development
  • Be dedicated to school improvement and the success of Oswald Road Primary School
  • Have the ability to work successfully in a team
    Be a highly motivated individual who will ensure the best possible outcomes for the people they work with
  • Be able to work on their own initiative
  • Have excellent communication skills
  • You will find more information in the attached letter from our headteacher.

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    About Our School

    Oswald Road is an innovative and forward thinking school that has a very supportive and dedicated staff team who work tirelessly to provide a stimulating, nurturing and safe learning environment where the personalised provision for all learners enables them to meet their full potential.

    We can offer you:

  • The opportunity to lead and have impact within a large and diverse primary school
  • A school committed to wellbeing of all staff – evidenced through our actions, provision, policies and systems
  • Weekly dedicated leadership time (equivalent of one day) in addition to PPA
  • An understanding and proactive SLT mentor
  • Our children are the highlight of our school and there is something very special about them all.
  • An incredibly supportive and effective governing body
  • A strong, committed and collaborative leadership team including senior and middle leaders with a distributed leadership model
  • An inclusive, warm and welcoming team of staff
  • Parents / carers and wider community who are positive about school and from very diverse backgrounds
  • Our school vision is for children to leave our school as young people who are:

  • Happy
  • Respectful
  • Inspired to learn
  • Independent
  • Aspirational
  • Creative
  • Self-confident
  • Resilient
  • Compassionate
  • Well rounded
  • We look forward to welcoming an application from you.

    Safeguarding information

    We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.