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Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 27 October 2025
Closing Date: Thursday 16 October 2025
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £55,155
Working Pattern: 35 Hours per week
Location: Beath High School
Purpose and Values of Education Directorate
The Education Directorate is committed to Improving Life Chances for All through a wide range of direct services which support our children, young people, families and the wider Fife community. Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values: Compassion, Ambition, Respect and Equity which reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the directorate. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with children, young people, their families, and the wider community in partnership with those who support them.
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed.
How to Apply
Check out the section of our Career Site. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked upload résumé. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV.
Job Details
We are looking for a highly-skilled Principal Teacher who is passionate about improving life chances for all through a professional commitment to leading change and improvement that ensures positive outcomes for our children and young people.
* As a principal teacher in Fife you will be responsible for supporting the senior leadership team by contributing to the strategic vision for the school, working with a wide range of stakeholders to implement and pursue the objectives set in policies, and for contributing to the development of a self-improving system across the education community.
* A link to the role profile is included at the bottom of the advert. You will find out more about the job and the type of person we are looking for.
Qualification, Registration And Skill Requirements
* You are required to have high levels of interpersonal skills and abilities which will enable you to work as a member of the senior leadership team to lead and manage school improvement, both at strategic and operational levels, to ensure continuous improvement.
* You are required to demonstrate a commitment to your own professional learning as a practitioner through career-long professional learning activity and to be able to show how this has impacted on your practice.
Registration
* You are required to model all behaviour expected of a teacher in Scotland in line with the relevant Professional Standards.
* Full General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) registration.
* For posts within Primary you are required to be fully registered with the GTCS in Primary.
* For posts within Secondary you are required to be fully registered with the GTCS in Secondary for the specific subject.
* Candidates holding GTCS registration in Further Education must also hold Primary or Secondary registration to meet the essential criteria as determined by Fife Council.
* For teaching specific subjects you must be fully registered with GTCS to teach those subjects.
Further Information
* Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile
* How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters behaviour framework for more information.
* Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services.
* Directorate Information - Council Department information.
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For further Information please contact: Sandra Duncan.
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