Headteacher Designate - Greywood Primary Academy

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Lichfield; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational trust seeks a Headteacher Designate for Greywood Primary Academy in Lichfield. This role offers a unique opportunity to establish the school's vision and culture from the ground up, ensuring high-quality education for all students. The successful candidate will lead the school's development, create an engaging learning environment, and foster strong community relationships. With a commitment to professional development and supportive working conditions, this position promises to be both challenging and rewarding.

Benefits

Professional Development

Employee Benefits

Gym Membership

Healthcare Plan

Qualifications

• Proven track record of effective leadership in primary education.
• Deep understanding of early child development.

Responsibilities

• Create a safe, inclusive, nurturing school culture.
• Design and deliver a high-quality primary curriculum.
• Recruit and develop a passionate workforce.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal Skills

Strategic Skills

Education

Qualified Teacher Status

Job description

HEADTEACHER DESIGNATE: GREYWOOD PRIMARY ACADEMY

Are you an inspiring and visionary leader ready to take full advantage of a rare and exciting opportunity; to shape the future of a brand-new primary school?

We are seeking an exceptional Headteacher to lead the pre-opening, opening and ongoing growth and development of our new primary school - Greywood Primary Academy in Lichfield, which will welcome its first cohort of nursery and reception pupils in September 2026.

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to establish the school's vision, values, culture and direction from day one and to make a lasting difference in the lives of children, families and in the local community.

As Headteacher Designate, you will:

• Create a safe, inclusive, nurturing, friendly, and aspirational school culture, rooted in high expectations
• Develop a stimulating and engaging learning environment that promotes curiosity, encourages creativity and is conducive to high achievement.
• Ensure that safeguarding, child protection and pupil well-being are at the heart of all school practices.
• Work collaboratively with Trust leaders, local governors, families and the local community to shape and realise a vision for a successful and thriving primary school.
• Design and deliver a high-quality, ambitious and engaging primary curriculum that inspires a love of learning in every child and lays strong foundations for future success as a well-rounded citizen.
• Recruit, develop, and motivate a passionate and highly skilled workforce who are dedicated to supporting every child to thrive and succeed.

We are looking for a leader who:

• Has a proven track record of effective leadership in primary education, including a deep understanding of early child development.
• Is committed to inclusion, equity and the provision of high quality, appropriate educational provision for all pupils.
• Brings drive, determination, resilience, creativity and adaptability to the mission of creating an exceptional new school.
• Has strong interpersonal skills and excels in building positive, productive relationships with the full range of stakeholders from within the school, across our Trust, beyond our Trust and in the local and wider community.
• Has well-developed strategic skills to facilitate sustained whole-school developments, married with
  the operational acumen to step in and do whatever it takes to run the school on a day-to day basis.
  

In return we can offer you:

• A commitment to sustained professional development, to ensure that you succeed as Headteacher whilst actively contributing to school improvement across and beyond our Trust as an Executive Leader.
• A highly supportive Trust and central team who ‘get education’ and who have an unswerving focus on our educational mission, working with our academies to ensure that all children achieve the kind of education that they need and deserve.
• An incredibly positive and supportive working environment, working for a Trust which runs a close-knit family of schools, in which:
• Our human resources are our most important and valuable resources.
• Staff wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do.
• All headteachers have a vested interest in each others’ success and actively support each other to succeed.
• Access to an extensive range of employee benefits which cover workplace wellbeing, personal healthcare, financial and social support and lifestyle enrichment. These include benefits such as a corporate healthcare plan, free gym membership - and many more.
• Competitive salary.

ABOUT PRIMITAS LEARNING PARTNERSHIP

Primitas Learning Partnership formed in September 2021 with a clear educational mission of: ‘Empowering and enabling schools to work together to provide the kind of education that every child needs and deserves’.

We are acutely aware that children only have one chance at a high quality, school-based education and so they need and deserve the best. Therefore, we are passionate about making this happen by doing the rights things in the right way… by being a truly collaborative educational venture, whereeveryoneis of prime importance and wherewe are all expected to demonstrate leadership, with integrity and kindness, to help others improve.

Our Trust was formed in the midst of a global pandemic when we were all forced to confront the reality that humanity is our most precious commodity, life is a team pursuit and that we need each other to survive, thrive and succeed. These vital truths have become part of our DNA and so Primitas Learning Partnership willalways put people first.

By the time Greywood Primary Academy opens in September 2026, Primitas Learning Partnership will be a close-knit family of nine schools, in the Lichfield and Burntwood district of Staffordshire, comprising of:

• Two mainstream secondary schools
• Five mainstream primary schools
• One special secondary school
• One special middle school

At the time of writing, all of our schools are OFSTED ‘Good’ or better (or the equivalent of).

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to shape an academy’s identity and legacy from the very beginning. If you are excited by the challenge of leading and growing our new school, we would love to hear from you.

Primitas Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As such this post is subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Further details regarding this check are available from schools or by visitingww.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service, references and online searches. Candidates are encouraged to read the Safeguarding Policy for the Trust which is available on the Trust website www. Primitas.co.uk.

You will also be required to provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK, evidence of your qualifications and suitable references.

Initial salary range : L8 – L14, £59,166 - £68,584 per annum. Once we have confirmation from the Local Authority that the school will officially become a 2FE setting, the salary range will increase to reflect this.

Contract: Permanent

Start date: 1^st January 2026. Candidates will be expected to attend additional open mornings and associated meetings during the autumn term.

To apply for the position, please complete the application form and equality and diversity monitoring form and return to the HR Manager, Mrs Debbie Westwood, either by post or email [e-mail]. CVs will not be accepted.

Further information on the role and Primitas Learning Partnership is available via the link below:

https://www.primitas.co.uk/headteacher-designate/

If you would like to discuss the position in further detail with the Chief Executive Officer please email [e-mail]

Shortlisted candidates will be offered the opportunity to visit the school prior to the interview.

CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 3^rd June 2025, 9.00 am

INTERVIEW DATE: Wednesday 18^th June and Thursday 19^th June