We are co-heads at Boxgrove Primary School in Surrey, part of the Guildford Education Partnership, and we have been job-sharing for more than five years.
Since the pandemic hit, flexible working has become more mainstream. We have long felt that allowing for more flexibility in the education sector would lead to more teachers wanting to stay in teaching and not leave the profession.
It remains the case that most roles, for class teachers and senior leadership positions, are still advertised as full-time. However, as one child at our school once told an Ofsted inspector: “Two heads are better than one!”
Our role was not advertised as a job-share, and we were working as the deputy and assistant head at Boxgrove when an interim headteacher position arose.
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