Principal Teacher - Guidance

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 05 January 2026 

Closing Date: Sunday 28 December 2025

Contract Type: Permanent 

Salary: PT03 £62,115 

Working Pattern: 35 Hours per week 

Location: Kirkcaldy High School 

Purpose and Values of Education & Children’s Services Directorate 

The Education & Children’s Services 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. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement. 

Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement: 

Ways you have modelled and promoted the GTCS Professional Values (social justice, trust, respect and integrity) and Professional Commitment in your current and previous roles.    

(Consider the following:  how you have ensured equity of opportunity for all; how you have developed relationships built on trust and respe