Class Teacher & EYFS Phase Achievement Leader

Portland Spencer Academy, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG8 4HB

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  2 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: M1 - M6
• Additional allowances:

  TLR2a

What skills and experience we're looking for

Leadership of EYFS Provision

• Lead, develop, and sustain a highly effective EYFS unit that ensures children make excellent progress and have a positive, enriching start to their education.
• Maintain high standards of pedagogy and curriculum delivery aligned with the EYFS framework and the school’s vision.
• Ensure the EYFS curriculum is inclusive, culturally responsive, and tailored to the needs of children with diverse backgrounds and additional needs.

Team Leadership and Staff Development

• Lead and line-manage the EYFS team, supporting professional growth through coaching, performance management and targeted CPD.
• Hold team members to account for their professional responsibilities and the progress of children in their care.
• Facilitate CPD opportunities for the EYFS team and wider school staff, promoting evidence-informed practice and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with the Principal in deploying staff effectively within the EYFS unit to meet children’s learning and welfare needs.

Data Accountability and Progress Monitoring

• Be accountable for the assessment, tracking, and reporting of EYFS children’s progress from Nursery 1 (N1) through to Foundation 2 (F2).
• Use our data systems effectively to identify trends, gaps, and areas for intervention, ensuring all children, specifically vulnerable groups, achieve their full potential.

Family and Community Engagement

• Build strong relationships with families, particularly new and vulnerable families, through home visits and parent workshops that promote engagement and support for learning at home.
• Champion a welcoming and inclusive environment that values family involvement and community links in the EYFS phase.

Strategic Leadership and Collaboration

• Attend and contribute to weekly senior leadership team meetings, providing updates on the EYFS unit’s progress, challenges and development priorities.
• Work collaboratively with senior leaders and subject leads to ensure alignment of EYFS with whole-school strategies and improvement plans.
• Model exemplary leadership behaviours, promoting a culture of respect, high expectations, and shared responsibility.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong Leadership and Management Skills: Proven ability to lead a team, manage performance, and foster professional development within a Primary School setting.
• Expertise in EYFS Pedagogy: Deep understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, child development principles, and effective teaching strategies, especially for diverse and disadvantaged cohorts.
• Data Literacy: Skilled in analysing pupil progress data to inform teaching strategies and interventions, with a focus on closing attainment gaps.
• Communication and Relationship Building: Excellent interpersonal skills to build trust and rapport with children, families, staff, and external partners, including conducting home visits and parent workshops.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to contribute to whole-school leadership, aligning EYFS priorities with broader school improvement goals.
• Cultural Competency and Inclusion: Sensitivity and responsiveness to the needs of children from varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds, ensuring equity and inclusion in all aspects of provision.
• Resilience and Adaptability: Capacity to work effectively in a complex, high-needs context, maintaining a positive and proactive approach to challenges.
• Role Modelling: Demonstrate consistently high standards of professional behaviour, embodying the school’s values and expectations.

Professional Development

• The EYFS Phase Achievement Lead will have access to ongoing professional development opportunities both within Portland Spencer Academy and through the Spencer Academies Trust network.
• Opportunities will include leadership training, EYFS-specific pedagogical development, and participation in our EYFS networks that connect EYFS practitioners from across the Trust.
• The role encourages continuous learning and reflective practice, supporting the leader to remain abreast of national developments in early years education and to drive innovation within the school’s EYFS provision.
• Professional growth will be supported through performance management processes aligned with the school’s vision and commitment to high standards.

Safeguarding

• The EYFS Phase Achievement Lead will uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and child protection, ensuring that all children in the EYFS phase are safe, nurtured, and protected.
• Responsibilities include promoting a culture of vigilance and responsiveness among the EYFS team, ensuring all staff understand and implement safeguarding policies and procedures in line with statutory guidance and school protocols.
• The role requires maintaining a safe physical and emotional environment for young children, including through risk assessments and safe staffing deployment.
• The EYFS Phase Achievement Lead will act as a safeguarding champion within the EYFS team, liaising with the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and external agencies as necessary.
• Commitment to maintaining confidentiality, professional boundaries, and ensuring that safeguarding is integral to all aspects of the EYFS provision.

What the school offers its staff

Generous Teacher’s / Local Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured) and BHN extra (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes). For full details, click here: http://www.satrust.com/employee-benefits

Commitment to safeguarding

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.

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About Portland Spencer Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 418 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Portland Spencer Academy website
• Email address: info@portlandspencer.org.uk
• Phone number: 01159155747
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/portland-spencer-academy

At Portland Spencer Academy we ASPIRE in all that we do, ensuring the very best for every child. Our children expect you to:

Always smile and listen to our ideas

Succeed in teaching and see potential in us

Praise us when we make good choices

Inspire us and include everyone

Respect us and other members of staff

Everyone should have fun!

Arranging a visit to Portland Spencer Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email info@portlandspencer.org.uk.

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