What skills and experience we're looking for
Be Brave, Be Brilliant, Be Your Best at Bassett Green
Our school motto is "Be brave, be brilliant, be your best," which encapsulates our dynamic and ambitious approach to education.
We are an inclusive two-form city primary school in the multicultural and diverse ward of Bassett on the northern edge of Southampton, close to the University of Southampton, with great transport links and easily accessible within the city and from M27 and M3. Although we are maintained school, we are part of the Aspire Community Trust, meaning we benefit from the close working partnerships across our family of schools, as well as from the local authority.
We are immensely proud of all that we have achieved in recent years, our rapid school improvement is a testament to the hard work and collaboration of the staff, governors, pupils, parents, and the wider community which has fostered a strong ‘Bassett Green family culture’.
As our next inspiring leader, you will be dedicated to providing the highest quality education and care for our children, staff, and wider community You will need to be passionate and share our school vision:
• Inspire a passion and thirst for memorable and lifelong learning.
• Provides our community with the best life chances to thrive and achieve.
• Gives us the knowledge, skills, and values to succeed.
• Enables us to make a positive impact within the community and the wider world.
• Ensure every child is successful at school and beyond.
While the progress and achievements of Bassett Green Primary School are developing, we have high aspirations and we want you to build on the momentum and continue to drive our vision and ensure success for each and every child. You will need to share and demonstrate our school values: Respect, Challenge, Resilience and Teamwork.
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, with the kindness and love that we have put at the centre of our school shining through. We refer to this as the ‘Bassett Buzz’.
Your proven track record in driving improvement and achieving excellent outcomes in the primary phase will ensure that under your leadership our school continues to improve, and our children thrive and reach their maximum potential.
If this opportunity excites you, come be brave, be brilliant and be your best at Bassett Green. In the meantime, do browse our website and get in touch with the school office on 02380 676262 so you can come and experience our lovely school for yourself.
What the school offers its staff
We recognise that we have to look after our headteachers. Aspire Community Trust is proud tohave been the driving force behind the Southampton ‘Caversham Covenant’- a set ofagreements and understandings that seek to enable headteachers and other key partners tolook after each other during times when headship can feel like a lonely job. Because it’s still thebest job in the world, and schools flourish when their leaders thrive. We look after ourheadteachers - the Bassett Green post is a rare opportunity to come and join our vibrant familyof schools and secure a better future for all our children.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.