Head Teacher
Chailey School
Chailey
- £85,529 - £104,040 per year
- New
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- L23-L31
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2025
- Apply by:
- 31 January 2025
Job overview
The Chailey School Governors are looking to recruit an inspirational and caring headteacher who will lead the school with passion, ambition and integrity, further developing and delivering our vision and values. We are looking for a dynamic leader with credible experience in generating commitment and creating a culture of aspiration for all. The school’s motto is ‘be the best you can be’.
Chailey is a mixed 11-16 local authority maintained community school with 866 students who come to us from across Sussex. With a focus on kindness, we believe our school is a special place, combining quality care and support with a record of high achievement where a broad curriculum offers a wide range of opportunities for students. We have happy, kind and motivated students and a strong, stable and dedicated staff team. We are over-subscribed in many of our year groups.
Chailey School enjoys a rural location in beautiful surrounding countryside whilst also having easy access to both Lewes and Brighton. We are fortunate to have a new main school building with light and airy teaching spaces.
Visits to the school are encouraged and you can book on a school tour by emailing SRodd@chaileyschool.org Tours are available on Wednesday 15 January at 1.30pm and Tuesday 21 January at 9.30am.
The closing date for applications is noon on 31 January 2025.
Interviews will take place on 27 and 28 February 2025.
To request an application pack and to apply for this position, please email Leadership@Recruitment@eastsussex.gov.uk
Attached documents
About Chailey School
Chailey School is located near to the towns of Lewes and Haywards Heath and is in easy commuting distance of Brighton. This school exists for the students and the staff are committed to nurturing, supporting and challenging the students to make the best progress possible. Advantages of working at Chailey School:
- strong professsional development programme
- friendly atmosphere and collaboration with professionals in other schools
- high expectation of student outcomes and behaviour
- free tea and coffee
Headteacher
Helen Key
Values and vision
The nurturing of the talents and abilities of students at Chailey is the focus on all that the school does. It believes that the real measure of its success is creating a school full of happy, confident and independent young people, fully engaged in their studies and the broader life of the school.
Students are encouraged to become active and responsible citizens who are respectful of others. A wide range of opportunities for students to make a positive contribution to the life of the school and the wider community are on offer.
Ofsted
“Staff know their pupils very well and help them to grow in confidence while developing their knowledge and understanding. As a result, pupils make good, and sometimes better, progress. Pupils appreciate what staff do for them and, therefore, their conduct is typically exemplary, both in lessons and around the school.”
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