About the job

Key information

Salary: L16 to L22

Full-time

Permanent from September 2025

St John and St Francis is a vibrant successful school that has made rapid progress in its improvement journey over the past few years. We are now looking for our next leader, someone who can add value and continue to move the school towards excellence.

As a school, we aim to create learners for life who care, understand, respect all and are guided by our core values of friendship, kindness, perseverance, forgiveness, peace and thankfulness. We are inspired by Corinthians 13:7: “Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes and always perseveres.” From this vision and these values, we enable all our children to become the best versions of themselves both academically and personally.

St John and St Francis Church School is part of the highly successful Bath & Wells Multi Academy Trust, which provides plentiful opportunities for collaboration, sharing of good practice and lots of professional development for staff in all roles.

What will I be doing?

We are looking for a senior leader who:

• Is excellent at building relationships with pupils, staff and the parent community
• Able to drive improvement in an already successful school, using a breadth of evidence to identify strengths and areas for development
• Strikes an effective balance between strategic leadership and the practical application of initiatives on the ground
• Has a strong understanding of distributed leadership, able to support other leaders to be the best versions of themselves
• Values collaboration and trust-wide working

What is in it for me?

We can offer you:

• Engaged and motivated pupils who are rightly very proud of their school
• An excellent staff team of dedicated professionals who are committed to the school and its community
• An involved and supportive parent community who want the best for their children
• Excellent support from an effective MAT and collaboration with other trust schools
• High-quality CPD to develop your leadership

DBS check

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS and all relevant pre-employment checks.

Supporting documents and information

We warmly welcome potential applicants to visit the school. Please email Jo Halley on jo.halley@sjsf.bwmat.org to book on one of the following dates:

• Friday 10 January 2025, 10.00am—11.30am
• Tuesday 14 January 2025, 1.30pm—3.00pm
• Thursday 16 January 2025, 8.00am—9.30am or 4.00pm—5.00pm

Details of the role, the recruitment process and how to apply are available on the trust website. Please return completed applications to our HR team via email on HR@bwmat.org

Closing date: Wednesday 22 January 2025, 12.00pm

Shortlisting date: Monday 27 January 2025

Interview dates: Tuesday 4 and Thursday 6 February 2025

This post will commence in September 2025.

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