- Vacancy Reference
- JOB003044
- Job Title
- Headteacher
- Job Start Date
- 1 September 2025
- Salary Range
- L27 to L31
- Hours Per Week
- Full time
- School Address
-
Hillcrest School & Sixth Form Centre
Stonehouse Lane
Birmingham
B32 3AE
Telephone number: 0121 464 3172 - Contact Email
- cthompson@hillcrest.bham.sch.uk
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 24 February 2025, 10:00am
- Job Information
-
Hillcrest School seeks to appoint an inspirational, visionary, innovative, tenacious, highly skilled and highly effective Headteacher. This is an exciting opportunity to lead an already successful secondary school and build upon the strong reputation of the school as being at the forefront of education. The school's ethos emphasises high quality teaching to achieve excellence and enable pupils to maximise their full potential.
The new Headteacher will be an experienced senior leader with strong academic expertise, vision and ambition for the further development of the school.
They will be highly skilled with the resilience and determination to deliver an outstanding curriculum and pastoral education, have excellent communication skills, hold high the values and ethos of the school, and a commitment to wellbeing, diversity and inclusion.
Hillcrest School has a strong history of working with and supporting other schools, including links with the Oaks Collegiate. -
How to Apply
If you would like to apply for this position you will need to complete an application form. Our application form is available online from our website.
If you have any queries accessing the form, please contact the school on 0121 464 3172.
- Safeguarding
- This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
- enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
- References
- All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
- Short-listed candidates
- An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
- Terms and Conditions
- This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
- Rehabilitation of Offenders
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
- Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
- Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.