Class Teacher + Phase Lead
Heathfield Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 1JU9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
14 May 2026 at 3pm
Date listed
5 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of year or phase
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Main Pay Scale to UPS + TLR
What skills and experience we're looking for
Main duties
- To lead phase team
- To be part of the Leadership Team (LT)
- Responsible for – Phase Accountability
- Planning
- Delivery
- Assessment
- Progress
- Monitoring
- Behaviour Management
- Phase Diary and logistical implications
- Transition arrangements with other phases
- Accountable to Co-Headteachers, Deputy Head Teachers and Governors
Planning
- Meets statutory national curriculum or EYFS requirements
- Meets policy expectations
- Support team members to use pedagogy which is effective in ensuring progress
- Ensure trips/visitors are organised with clear learning intentions/outcomes
- Risk assessments are completed (can be delegated but must be checked)
- Key curriculum documentation is maintained and available for the website
- Maintaining a view of quality first teaching strategies nationally which can be implemented into HPNS curriculum
- Ensuring high quality adaptive teaching and resources to ensure an inclusive learning environment
Delivery
- Role model in all aspects of classroom practice and within the wider school community including professional conduct/communication
- Budget management for resources across both campuses.
- Willingness to coach/mentor team including discussion about monitoring outcomes
Assessment
- Active role in ensuring HPNS assessment system is robust
- Ensuring AfL is prominent in planning and delivery
- Take an active role in analysing progress over short term to impact on progress
- Gap analysis to ensure coverage
- Take the lead on the target setting strategy which informs children and parents of next steps in learning
- Liaise with the Deputy Head Teachers, Co-Headteachers and subject leaders
- Ensure deadlines are met for data collection
- Evaluate use of assessment types
- Maintaining a view of the national picture of assessment
- Familiar with Local and National data sources and how HPNS benchmarks against these
Progress
- Monitor vulnerable groups in the phase; acting on information
- Provide, coordinate and track the impact of interventions in a timely manner
- Analyse termly data to identify that All and Pupil Premium children are making at least expected progress
- Act on outcomes from Pupil Progress Meetings
- Work in partnership with key staff to ensure the closing of the gap for vulnerable children
Monitoring
- Monitoring is in line with school and phase priorities and the school monitoring calendar
- Lesson observations (can be joint observations with SLT or English/Maths leaders)
- Book scrutiny focusing on:
- Whole school expectations
- Presentation
- Adherence to feedback policy
- Content and coverage evident in books
- Time to write
- Child responding to feedback
- Assessment trackers in use
- Adaptations
- Environment
- Adherence to class environment checklist
- Hall/corridor displays
- Ambassador roles being used and celebrated
- LOTC frequency reflecting in environment
- Interventions liaising with SENDCos
- Attendance in partnership with key staff
- Parent attendance at events
Member of Leadership Team
- Fully prepared for all meetings in order to actively participate
- Regular presentations to governors and senior leaders to update them on phase priorities
- Prepared to engage with external scrutiny
- Regular evaluation of the School Development Plan with focus on phase
- Awareness of CPD needs for self or team members and liaising with Deputy Head Teachers and Co-Headteachers regarding this.
- Stepping up in absence of SLT from campus
- Running appraisals for members of the Phase team
What the school offers its staff
Work with and alongside enthusiastic, friendly and well-behaved children
Be joining a highly committed, talented and open-minded staff team
Work with a supportive and experienced Governing Body
Have access to quality professional development
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Heathfield Primary and Nursery School
- School type
- Local authority maintained schools, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 719 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Heathfield Primary and Nursery School website
- Email address
- steve.whitehead@heathfield.nottingham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0115 9794304
Heathfield is a Nottingham City LA maintained school that works collaboratively as part of the Nottingham Schools Trust (NST). We are a thriving, two-campus primary school serving wonderfully diverse communities, with a shared vision for all pupils and staff to ‘Thrive Together’.
Arranging a visit to Heathfield Primary and Nursery School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email steve.whitehead@heathfield.nottingham.sch.uk.
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