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Headteacher

Loxford School

Redbridge

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Salary:
L37-L43 (commensurate with experience/more for an exceptional candidate)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2025
Apply by:
25 November 2024

Job overview

Headteacher

Redbridge, London

Start date: September 2025                

Salary: L37-L43 (commensurate with experience/more for an exceptional candidate)

Contract term: Permanent - Full Time

NOR: 3,000  •  Age: 3-18  •  Type: Co-ed, Academy

Committed to the success of each of our students

Loxford School is a diverse, inclusive and confident school delivering a high quality education for each student. We aim to instil in our students, confidence, resilience and a positive mindset, delivered in an educational environment that emphasises traditional standards of uniform, discipline and respect.

As part of the Loxford School Trust, Loxford School is an outstanding institution and a wonderful place to work. We are characterised not only by high academic standards and care and support for pupils, but also by the strength of the dedicated staff team, who have an enviably high level of expertise and who help to prepare our students so that they are capable of achieving their goals and ambitions in an ever-changing world. 

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced senior school leader, who fully shares our vision of inclusivity combined with excellence, to lead Loxford School through the next stage of its development. With the space to innovate and build on the unique character and inclusive ethos of Loxford School, you will have the support of dedicated staff, the CEO, members, trustees and governors of the Loxford School Trust, for continued improvement and growth.

To be successful you will need to be a dynamic, outstanding, and outward-facing practitioner, keen to share and collaborate with others, and capable of inspiring commitment from the rest of the team. As an excellent communicator who is approachable and effective at building relationships and partnerships throughout the Trust, you will share our commitment to the academic success and personal growth of every student, with the determination and resilience needed to fulfil the demands of leading a large inner-city school through the challenges of the broader educational climate. Above all, you will have a proven track record that prepares you to build innovatively on the many types of excellence already demonstrated by Loxford School, while articulating a strategic vision in a way that ensures the continued support of all stakeholders.

Further information can be found on www.candidateiskey.co.uk/loxfordschool

For an informal conversation about the role or to book a visit, please contact Michael Watson on michael.watson@candidateiskey.co.uk 077 4227 4680 or 020 8406 9689

Visits: 13th & 21st November

Closing: 9.00am 25th November •  Shortlist Thursday 28th  • Interviews: 4th & 5th December

Loxford School is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the safeguarding and to promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for the successful applicant.

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About Loxford School

Loxford School of Science and Technology has passed some significant developmental milestones. The school is currently undergoing a new building programme under the “Building Schools for the Future Programme”. It is classed as “outstanding”  by Ofsted which exemplifies the many milestones that the school has passed in the previous years.  April 2010 witnessed the advent of a new dawn in the educational provision, resources and accommodation for all concerned, this being the opening of our new school. We are now confidently moving forward as we expand further by opening the first 'all through' school in Redbridge. From September 2011 we have students in Reception and year 1 and this will expand over the coming years.

You will be joining a school that is really going places. At Loxford School we believe our pioneering and rigorous learning environment, and commitment to innovation, provides our students with the opportunity to realise their full potential.

Rated as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted, our high VA scores have been commended and our academic attainment continues to improve. Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2008, we are proud  of the students’ success and wish to go on further.  Like us, you will be dynamic, innovative and hardworking.  You will also have exceptional subject knowledge and a firm commitment to high academic achievement.

Our over riding aim now is to build on our success to date and improve standards of attainment in each year. It is essential that the school is ready for the increase in student numbers and staffing matches the needs of the curriculum. The key area for progress is to develop students into learners who have the resources to progress to university regardless of ability. Students will view education from a “stage not age” perspective and they will be encouraged to capitalise on their talents rather than their weaknesses. Our curriculum is being “tweaked” in different areas to ensure that students are given a personalised curriculum which matches their needs and aspiration. This ideology takes in the implications of the governments agenda on personalised learning and the Children and Young Peoples Plan. A key focus area will be post 16 education within this development plan.

Please visit our school website at www.loxford.net where you will be able to read about Loxford. This could be one of the best decisions you are ever likely to make!

You may not see a vacancy which suits you today but feel free to email your CV to jobvacancies@loxford.net or visit this page regularly. We are expanding every year and are always looking for dedicated teaching and support staff.

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