Headteacher

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 20 April 2026
LOCATION
Spilsby
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£67,000 / year
CATEGORY
Education
This role is not offered with visa sponsorship, though the employer is a licensed UK sponsor

SKILLS

Leadership Strategic Vision Collaboration Christian Ethos Organisational Skills Interpersonal Skills

FULL DESCRIPTION

We are looking to appoint a Headteacher who has proven experience of successful leadership, strategic vision and collaboration, as well as having strong personal and work ethics and morals. The candidate will be required to uphold and promote the school’s Christian ethos and a positive approach to working with the Church and local community.

Job details

Job role Headteacher

Visa sponsorship Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern Full time: Full-Time

Contract type Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary Between £58,000 and £67,000

Pay scale L6 to L12

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint a Headteacher who:

  • Has proven experience of successful leadership, strategic vision and collaboration, as well as having strong personal and work ethics and morals.
  • Has commitment to uphold and promote the school’s Christian ethos and a positive approach to working with the Church and local community.
  • Is kind, compassionate and nurturing and so will maintain a school environment where all children flourish emotionally, socially and academically.
  • Has a wealth of experience and deep understanding of nurturing children with diverse, additional needs.
  • Has a working knowledge of the current Ofsted and SIAMS inspections frameworks to drive performance.
  • Has the ability and ambition to continue to raise standards throughout the school, enabling every child and colleague to reach their full potential.
  • Has excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build on strong working relationships within school, with partners and the wider community.

§ Is a person who is wholeheartedly committed to the children and families of our school.

§ Is a person who has the vision and the skill necessary to lead our school through our exciting journey of improvement.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

  • § Leadership of our passionate team of fully dedicated colleagues.
  • § A creative environment that supports and enhances our vision and inclusive ethos.
  • § Commitment to your professional development and wellbeing.
  • § Children who are polite, well behaved and enthusiastic with supportive parents.
  • § Exciting opportunities that Partney C of E (Aided) Primary School promises.
  • § A welcoming, dedicated, supportive governing body.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Partney HT Application V7.pdf - 1.28 MB (opens in new tab)

About [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

School type Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 3 to 11

Education phase Primary school

School size 68 pupils enrolled

Age range 3 to 11

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We are a small, rural Church of England Primary School in the Lincolnshire Wolds, approximately 2 miles from Spilsby. Everyone is welcome at Partney. Our School Community aspires to meet the needs of all with high expectations and compassionate support. We have high expectations and aim to support all pupils to achieve their potential, both academically and as a valued member of the community.

We are in a beautiful setting and we love to learn outdoors, as well as encouraging children to develop their voice, their talents and their interests.

We have four classes, starting with Pre-school and Reception, Year 1 and 2, Year 3 and 4 and finally, Year 5 and 6. Our pupils and our staff work hard to achieve high standards and support each other with compassion, curiosity and courage.

Our school day starts at 8:45 a.m (gates open at 8:35 a.m) and finishes at 3:15 p.m.

We offer a Breakfast Club from 7:30 a.m and an After School Club until 5:15p.m

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School location

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Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 3 to 11

Maddison Lane, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, PE23 4PX

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