19 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    January 2026 or as soon as possible after

  • Closing date

    8 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    19 November 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other leadership roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

Salary aligned with National Teacher Payscales based on experience

Additional allowances

Salary aligned with National Teacher Payscales based on experience

CAT Teaching and Learning Lead - EYFS/KS1 job summary

🌟 Teaching and Learning Lead

Cheshire Academies Trust (0.4 FTE)
Location: Multi-site role across Cheshire Academies Trust

Are you ready to shape teaching excellence across a dynamic and forward-thinking multi-academy trust? Cheshire Academies Trust is seeking a passionate and visionary Teaching and Learning Lead to drive high-quality teaching across our family of schools. This is a unique opportunity to join a trust committed to evidence-based practice, continuous improvement, and the professional growth of all staff.

💡 About the Role

As our Teaching and Learning Lead, you will:

  • Provide strategic leadership of teaching and learning across all CAT academies for EYFS and KS1

  • Work closely with the School Improvement Director to raise the quality of education, particularly in schools requiring improvement

  • Design and deliver CPD and Trust-wide training via the Cheshire Learning and Teaching Alliance (CLTA)

  • Champion curriculum innovation and ensure evidence-informed pedagogy across the trust

  • Lead on the development and quality assurance of teaching, learning, and assessment frameworks

  • Collaborate with expert teachers to develop online and in-person resources

  • Model excellent teaching practice and contribute to teacher recruitment

This role includes movement around all of our CAT Academies. You’ll be part of a leadership team committed to collaboration, innovation, and excellence.

👤 About You

You will be:

  • An experienced teacher and leader with a strong track record of improving teaching and learning

  • Deeply research-informed and committed to developing others

  • Able to think strategically while remaining grounded in classroom practice

  • An excellent communicator and relationship-builder who thrives on collaboration

🏆 Why Join CAT?

  • Influence and shape teaching across a values-driven trust

  • Flexible working (0.4 FTE)

  • Access to high-quality professional development

  • Opportunities to innovate and contribute nationally through sector networks

  • Be part of a leadership team committed to equity, inclusion, and excellence

📅 Closing Date: Midday on Monday 8th December 2025
📧 For further information or an informal conversation about the role, please contact Kate Doyle on 07779 655803.

👉 Apply now and help shape the future of learning across our Trust.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Cheshire Academies Trust

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