Job descriptions
Contents
- Administrative staff: job descriptions
- Classroom and subject teachers: job descriptions
- Facilities and catering staff: job descriptions
- Learning support staff: job descriptions
- Pupil wellbeing support staff: job descriptions
- Senior leaders: job descriptions
- Specialist roles: job descriptions
- Teachers with extra responsibilities: job descriptions
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Administrative staff: job descriptions
- Administrative assistant/officer: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for an admin assistant and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Data protection officer (DPO): model role description Download our model role description and person specification and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Examinations officer: model job description Download our model job description and person specification to help you to find the most suitable candidates for an examinations officer role.
- HR manager: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for an HR manager, and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
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MAT company secretary: model job description
Download and adapt our model job description for a multi-academy trust (MAT) company secretary.
For Trust Leaders
- Personal assistant (PA) to the headteacher: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a headteacher's PA. Adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- School finance manager: job description See example job descriptions for a finance manager in a primary and a secondary school.
- School office manager: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a school office manager, and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Classroom teacher (primary): model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a primary school teacher and adapt it to reflect your school's context.
- Teacher on the UPR: job description Read advice on writing your own UPR job description, or download and adapt our model job description and person specification.
- Caretaker/site manager: model job description Download our model job description and person specification to help you to find the most suitable candidate.
- Catering manager: model job description Download our model job description and person specification to help you find the most suitable candidate for the catering manager role. Adapt it to meet your school's or trust's context.
- Midday supervisor: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a lunchtime supervisor and adapt it to suit your school's context.
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Learning support staff: job descriptions
- Learning support assistant (LSA): model job description Download our model job description and person specification for an LSA delivering 1:1 support and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- SEN teaching assistant: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for an SEN TA and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Teaching assistant or HLTA: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a teaching assistant (TA) or higher level teaching assistant (HLTA) and adapt it to reflect your school's context.
- Attendance officer: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for an attendance officer. Adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Designated teacher for looked-after children: model role description Download our model role description to help you set out the duties and responsibilities for a designated teacher for looked-after children (LAC) and previously LAC.
- Family support worker: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a parent and family support worker, and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Inclusion manager: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for an inclusion manager.
- Learning mentor: model job description Download our model job description and person specification, and see examples from primary and secondary schools, to help find your new learning mentor.
- Pastoral manager/lead: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a pastoral manager and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Senior mental health lead: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a senior mental health lead. Adapt it to meet your school's needs and use it to help you recruit or appoint the right person for the role.
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Senior leaders: job descriptions
- Assistant headteacher: model job description Use our model job description to find the best candidates for your assistant headteacher role - it's based on the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document, and where relevant, the Headteachers' Standards 2020 and Teachers' Standards.
- Chief executive officer (CEO): model job description Download and adapt our model job description for a multi-academy trust chief executive officer.
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Chief financial officer (CFO): model job description
Download and adapt our model job description for a multi-academy trust (MAT) chief financial officer (CFO).
For Trust Leaders
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Chief operating officer (COO): model job description
Download and adapt our model job description for a multi-academy trust (MAT) chief operating officer (COO).
For Trust Leaders
- Deputy headteacher: model job description Download and adapt our model job description to help you find the right candidate for your deputy headteacher role. Our model is based on the Headteachers' Standards 2020.
- Designated safeguarding lead (DSL): model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a DSL and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Executive headteacher: model job description Use and adapt our model job description and person specification to help you recruit an executive headteacher for your trust.
- Head of school: model job description Use our model job description and person specification to help you recruit a head of school.
- Headteacher: model job description Use our model job description to help you recruit your next headteacher – it's based on the Headteachers' Standards 2020.
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MAT HR director: model job description
Download and adapt our model job description for a multi-academy trust human resources (HR) director.
For Trust Leaders
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MAT ICT director: model job description
Download and adapt our model job description for a multi-academy trust ICT director.
For Trust Leaders
- School business manager (SBM): model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a school business manager (SBM) and adapt it to suit your school's context.
- SENCO: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO) and adapt it to suit your school's context.
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Specialist roles: job descriptions
- Behaviour lead: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a behaviour lead. Adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Breakfast/after-school club manager: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a breakfast or after-school club manager.
- Careers leader: model job description Download our model job description and person specification and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Sustainability lead: model job description Recruiting for this new DfE-mandated role? Download our model role description to help you set out the duties and responsibilities of a sustainability lead.
- Curriculum leader (primary): model job description Adapt and use our model job description and person specification to help you find the most suitable candidate for a curriculum leader.
- English/literacy lead: model job description Download and adapt our job description and person specification for an English or literacy lead to help you find the most suitable candidate for the role.
- EYFS leader: model job description Download our model job description and person specification to help you find the most suitable candidate for the role of Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) leader.
- Key stage leader: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a key stage 1 or key stage 2 phase leader who is also a classroom teacher.
- Leading practitioner: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a leading practitioner and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Subject leader: model job description Download our model job description and person specification to help you find the most suitable candidate for the role of subject leader. You'll find a version for primary and secondary phases that you can adapt to suit your school's context.
- Teacher with a TLR: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a teacher with a teaching and learning responsibility (TLR). It includes guidance for adapting your job description for TLR1 and TLR2 payments.
