Overview
How would you like to get paid for five days, but only work four? At Outcomes First Group, we believe in better work/life balance and wellbeing. We are part of a 4-Day Working Week (4DWW) trial, where you can work one day less each week (or equivalent hours), while still receiving your full-time pay. Many of our schools have already introduced the 4DWW and others are preparing to roll it out as soon as they reach full staffing. So, whether it is already in place or just around the corner, now is the perfect time to join #teamOFG.
Job Title: Headteacher
Location: Options Trent Acres, Kings Bromley, Staffordshire, DE13 7HR
Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum dependent on experience
Hours: 40 Hours per Week, Monday - Friday
Contract: Permanent, Term Time only
Start Date: November 2025
UK applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship.
About The Role
As part of our continued growth in service, we are recruiting for a Headteacher for Options Trent Acres located in Kings Bromley, Staffordshire. This well-established school supports pupils with complex needs and seeks an outstanding leader to drive its continued development.
As Headteacher, you will continue our vision and ethos of Thinking and Learning Differently and promote a relentless focus on high quality, creative learning, delivering our pupils' educational needs, and maximising pupils' achievement and ability to develop your strategic thinking in response to their complex needs.
Who We Are Looking For
The successful candidate will exercise dynamic leadership of the school and ensure the full development of the vision for the service, its promotion, and continuous improvement. You will create and maintain outstanding outcomes in the education of our students.
You will continue to drive our shared vision and strategic plan through inspirational leadership, motivating pupils, staff, and everyone within our school community and beyond. Your leadership should express core educational values and moral purpose and include stakeholders' values and beliefs. The strategic planning process is critical to sustaining school improvement and ensuring that the school moves forward for the benefit of its pupils.
You will collaborate with the school's senior leadership team and the Regional Director to provide an inclusive approach to outstanding educational and therapeutic provision, which is well established in the school.
You will have overall responsibility for the strategic leadership of the school whilst maintaining ongoing communication with schools to ensure that the provision and standards are consistently high across the schools.
Essential Qualifications & Experience
* Relevant experience in the specialist area of the service, i.e. working with young people/young adults with autistic spectrum disorders and/or challenging behaviour
* Relevant experience as a Head Teacher or Deputy Head Teacher in a Complex Special Needs School
* Experience with Ofsted procedures/inspections and working with School Improvement Partners
* Manage budgets effectively and ensure cost efficiency and financial compliance
* Relevant Teaching Qualification
About The School
Options Trent Acres is an outstanding independent specialist school; providing 141 places for pupils aged 5-19. The school operates across two sites in Staffordshire, offering academic and vocational opportunities in a rural 12-acre site and a newly built college setting. The school is purpose-built, modern and welcoming with a range of specialist learning areas including an indoor and outdoor riding school and outdoor gymnasium. Pupils also have the opportunity to work with horses, donkeys, goats, alpaca and chickens. Learning outside of the classroom is a fundamental part of life at Trent Acres. We have a dedicated staff team focused on the delivery of high quality, pupil-centred, bespoke packages of care and education.
Our service is within easy reach of Stoke, Derby, Telford, Stafford, Lichfield, Burntwood, Rugeley, Burton-on-Trent, Tamworth, Uttoxeter and surrounding towns.
For over 16 years Options Autism have provided care and education to pupils, young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.
We are proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a Great Place to Work for the fifth year running.
Why join Options Autism?
We place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day knowing your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.
Benefits
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:
* Life Assurance
* Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
* Wellbeing Matters: access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
And a Market-leading Benefits Offering Through Our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, Enables You To Choose The Package That's Right For You, Including:
* A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
* 100s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
* Cycle to Work Schemes
* Electric Car Purchase Scheme
* Critical illness cover
* Family Growth Support - enhanced maternity and paternity leave, paid fertility treatment support
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy. 4DWW is subject to successful completion of probation and is not a contractual benefit.
Outcomes First Group is committed to keeping children safe in education. All stages of the compliance process are subject to safeguarding checks and statutory requirements, which may affect timescales. This is a general information posting and may be updated.
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