Head Teacher – Breadsall Hill Top Primary School

Required for September 2025

NOR: 410 (Group 3)

Leadership Points 18 – 24 £75,675-£87,651 (plus a discretionary allowance up to L26 for the right candidate)

Our dedicated and well respected Headteacher is retiring at the end of this academic year. Breadsall Hill Top Primary School is seeking an inspirational, enthusiastic leader with a proven track record in driving school improvement and achieving excellent outcomes in the primary phase. Our Governors want to ensure that under your leadership our school continues to improve, and our children and adults thrive and reach their maximum potential. This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior leader to continue making a difference to our whole school community.

Our new Head teacher will impact not only on raising attainment, but most importantly lead on helping our children to be happy, safe and secure and create great memories for them. We have high aspirations at Breadsall Hill Top. We want you to build on the momentum and continue to drive our vision and ensure success for each and every child as well as push on with progress and achievements which still are developing. You will need to share and demonstrate our school values: Respect, Kindness and Honesty. In order to support our diverse community, you will be a highly effective communicator and capable of engaging our children and wider community. You will have the ability to inspire trust and confidence, build purposeful relationships with the kindness that we have put at the centre of our school relational based behaviour strategy.

If you lead with integrity, are empathetic and can motivate all within the school community we would love to hear from you.

Our pupils and staff have told us that they want our new Headteacher to:

• Be an ambitious and inspirational leader, able to motivate and empower staff and children to achieve their full potential. 

• Ensure that everyone has a voice and is valued.

• Be a visible leader who leads from the front and is not afraid to stand up for what is right.

• Continue to build and strengthen that feeling of ‘family’.

• Have ambition for all children to achieve the highest standards

• Be committed to children enjoying, being engaged in their learning as well as being challenged

• Have experience of leading people, developing their expertise and holding to account

• Have proven senior leadership experience within a primary school. 

• Lead with honesty and integrity.

• Communicate confidently with all members of the school community

• Ensure that all children have extended learning opportunities through clubs, events, visits and residentials.

• Be kind, everyone should feel safe and that they belong.

We offer: 

• A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards continuously raising standards and delivering the best outcomes for BHTP children

• The opportunity to work with a rapidly improving leadership team and to develop a first-hand experience of school improvement

• Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives

• Calm and purposeful learning environments

• Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community 

• A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school

• Opportunities for career progression as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust

Being part of Transform Trust means that you will have access to the following:

• Peer to peer networking, collaboration, challenge and support

• The security of working in a climate of shared accountability

• Investment in your professional development and future career

• Opportunities to contribute to the development of a growing organisation and 

• Access to a range of core services that enable you to focus on leading, teaching and learning.

How to apply:

Equality and diversity matter to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.

Please complete the online application form which you will find on the Transform Trust website http://www.transformtrust.co.uk/vacancies. 

Please ensure that you follow the instructions within the application form and ensure that there are no gaps in your education or employment history that are not accounted for.

Closing date: Monday 17th March at 12.00 noon

Interviews: Thursday 27th March 2025

For an informal discussion please contact Lindsay Clark, Chair of Governors on 0115 9825090.

Visits to the school are available on 4th, 5th and 11th March 9.30- 10.30am.

Should you wish to arrange a visit to the school please email Tanya Davies in Transform Trust HR at hradmin@transformtrust.co.uk