- Vacancy Reference
- JOB003183
- Job Title
- Headteacher
- Job Start Date
- 1 September 2025
- Salary Range
- L15 to L21
- Hours Per Week
- Full time
- School Address
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World's End Infant & Nursery School
Worlds End Lane
Birmingham
B32 2SA
Telephone number: 0121 422 0453 - Contact Email
- enquiry@worldsendinfant.bham.sch.uk
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 7 March 2025, midday
- Job Information
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Worlds End Infant and Nursery School and Visually Impaired (VI) Resource Base is a three form entry local authority school based in Quinton, Birmingham. Our school was rated “Good” at the last inspection in October 2023. At World’s End Infant and Nursery School, our aim is to provide a rich and exciting Curriculum with the highest quality of teaching and learning. We encourage children at our school to reach for the stars and never stop believing.
Our school is seeking to appoint a Headteacher who can work with us to embed the actions arising from the School Development Plan and to ensure that we can become an “Outstanding” school. World’s End Infant and Nursery School has a highly skilled and experienced staff team.
The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to offer aspirational and collaborative leadership.
The successful candidate will also:
- maintain high standards of progress and attainment, whilst being aspirational for the children ensuring they are well equipped for the next stage of their learning journey
- provide inspirational leadership, ensuring delivery of educational excellence through the highest possible standards of teaching and learning
- build and develop a positive culture within the school: it will be one which supports an effective learning environment which is caring, nurturing and inclusive, with a particular focus on staff and pupil wellbeing
- maintain and build, where necessary, links with stakeholders within the community and elsewhere.
Prospective candidates are encouraged to visit the school to gain an insight into this exciting role.
We are able to offer the following dates and times for visits:
Monday 3 March 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm or Wednesday 5 March 2025 9:00am to 10:00am School visits must be arranged by appointment and can be booked by contacting our Senior Office Manager, Alison Salmon on 0121 422 0453 or via email to enquiry@worldsendinfant.bham.sch.uk.
Shortlisting will take place on Monday 10 March 2025. Interviews are expected to take place on Tuesday 1 April 2025.
We welcome applications from all parts of our community. This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment.
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How to apply
- 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.
- 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.
- How to submit your application
- Please note that offline application forms will not be considered - please submit an online application via the link above.