Classroom Teacher
Desford Community Primary School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE9 9JHThis job expired on 13 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
August 2025
Closing date
13 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications & Training
ESSENTIAL
Qualified Teacher status
DESIRABLE
Evidence of commitment to
further professional
development.
Additional professional
qualifications.
Experience
ESSENTIAL
The teacher should have experience of
teaching successfully in EYFS and/or
year 1.
Experience of teaching phonics in EYFS
and/or year 1.
DESIRABLE
In addition, the teacher might
have experience of:
teaching across the whole
Primary age range
working in partnership with
parents
leading a subject area
Knowledge and
understanding
ESSENTIAL
The teacher should have knowledge and
understanding of:
The EYFS framework and the national
curriculum
how children learn and retain learning.
the theory and practice of providing
effectively for the individual needs of all
children (e.g. classroom organisation and
learning strategies)
quality first inclusive teaching and
learning strategies and pedagogy
the monitoring, assessment, recording
and reporting of pupils’ progress.
effective strategies for developing positive
relationships and behaviour.
the statutory requirements of legislation
concerning Equal Opportunities, Health &
Safety, SEN and Child Protection
the guidance and requirements around
safeguarding children.
the positive links necessary within school
and with all its stakeholders.
effective teaching and learning styles.
DESIRABLE
Knowledge of:
Synthetic phonics
The new primary
curriculum
Skills
ESSENTIAL
The class teacher will be able to:
promote the school’s aims positively and
use effective strategies to monitor and
motivate.
develop good personal relationships
within a team.
build effective working relationships with
children.
establish and develop close relationships
with parents, and the community.
communicate effectively to a variety of
audiences.
create a happy, challenging and effective
learning environment.
Adapt teaching to meet the needs of all
children.
use a range of ICT equipment and
programmes to support planning and
learning.
Personal
characteristics
ESSENTIAL
Creative, energized and motivated in
getting the best outcomes for all pupils
and in upholding and promoting the ethos
and values of the school
High expectations for children’s
attainment and progress
Ability to work under pressure and
prioritise effectively
Not afraid of hard work but recognizes the
need to manage own workload.
Commitment to maintaining confidentiality
at all times
Commitment to safeguarding, equality,
diversity and inclusion.
Good attendance record
Friendly, approachable and able to build
professional relationships.
Organised and adaptable to changing
circumstances and ideas
Patience and empathy
Honesty and integrity
Excellent sense of Humour
What the school offers its staff
Putting your trust in our Trust
We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young people. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.
Coaching
Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching in the planning of lessons, the delivery of lessons, the evaluation of lessons, and the assessment of outcomes. This all enables deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a child centred culture where staff feel supported to improve learning experiences, and where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.
Personal Improvement Plans (PIPS)
Instead of the usual Performance Management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement, not pass or fail numerical targets.
Health and Wellbeing Strategies
Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The school and Trust are committed to:
▪ providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work.
▪ recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important. ▪ providing a supportive workplace culture where individual healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged.
▪ Implementing policies that ensure staff are supported with attendance, flexible working and leave of absence where necessary.
We are committed to supporting colleagues to overcome the stigma and discrimination of mental health issues within the workplace. To show our commitment to this we have publicly signed up to ‘Mindful Employer’ and the Trust is currently working on a People Strategy that places an even higher priority on providing opportunities for support and development for all employees within the Trust.
We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance, offering support to staff on managing stress and workload. Access to coaching, occupational health, wellness plans, personal risk assessments and counselling is also available to all staff.
Equality and Equal Opportunities
Our Trust and its schools are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in line with the Equality Act 2010. The Trust seeks to reduce disadvantages, discrimination and inequalities of opportunity, and promote diversity in terms of its children, workforce and our wider communities we serve.
Development of Professional Capital and Excellence
As a Trust we always look to invest in our staff and pride ourselves on our ‘home grown talent’. We are proud of this and believe this has the biggest impact on how our staff understand their communities and make a difference to the lives of our young people.
Quite simply, our aim is to employ people who match our ethos and values and enable them to truly collaborate with colleagues across the Trust so that they are satisfied professionally.
We provide development opportunities which draw on excellence both within and outside of our Trust to enable you to build your professional capital. Examples of the many opportunities we encourage staff to take up externally include:
▪ The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL)
▪ The National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
▪ The National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML)
▪ The Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP) Development opportunities occur at all levels. Some are led by staff within school or across the Trust and others are externally accredited.
Access to progression and leadership responsibility
Across the Trust, we pride ourselves on equal opportunities for all staff, irrespective of background, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age. Over the past 6 years:
▪ 5 class teachers have progressed into middle/senior leadership positions
▪ 5 middle leaders have progressed into senior leadership positions
▪ 2 senior leaders have progressed into senior roles at other school’s within LiFE MAT
▪ 1 senior leader secured a XMAT responsibility for developing Early Career Teachers
▪ 4 senior leaders have moved on to secure a headship in another school
▪ 1 senior leader moved on to secure a headship within LiFE MAT
We value having a blend of internal progression and external recruitment to all roles at the school. Internal progression ensures staff feel valued and appreciated whilst enabling a culture of development. External appointments to any role ensures fresh ideas and talented staff continue to join our school and trust, enabling a culture of being self-evaluative.
We have clear professional progression pathways within the CPD offered throughout the year at all levels within the Trust. A recent development with this is the inclusion of 6 early school finishes throughout the year that enable staff to receive quality, focussed CPD whilst maintaining a good work-life balance.
Collaboration across all schools
We are continually developing relationships across our Trust to enable collaboration to support learning and teaching outcomes. In addition, we are able to offer a joint CPD programme to draw upon expertise across the Trust. Staff work and meet regularly in teams across schools in the Trust and we hold an annual Strategic Planning Day, where each school member of the Trust work together. All teachers have the opportunity to develop their own knowledge and skills in monitoring and evaluation by taking part in peer reviews in other schools.
Flexible working
Flexible working arrangements are also promoted across the Trust where possible, to enable our staff to manage their work life and family commitments. There is a Trust policy for this that ensures equity for all employees in the Trust,
Staff Induction Process
It is important to us that every member of staff has the right start to working in our Trust. The importance of a good induction is invaluable for new starters irrespective of previous experience. To support this, we have an induction process that enables colleagues to get a real understanding of what the school is about and what it means to be part of the Trust. We hold induction meetings and provide training and resources for all new staff.
Early Career Teachers
We offer early careers teachers a robust, supportive and bespoke training programme which will enable you to develop into an outstanding teacher. We will follow new guidance on the ECT Early Career Framework. We ensure that ECTs and second year teachers have reduced teaching loads to allow them more opportunities for CPD throughout the school week. This also allows for peer to peer observations and additional coaching to take place to develop their practice.
We are always looking for high quality teachers and support staff who buy into our values across the LiFE Multi Academy Trust and our schools.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Desford Community Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 384 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Desford Community Primary School website
- Email address
- kbarnett@desford.leics.sch.uk
Desford Primary School is a vibrant and flourishing school at the heart of the village community. We have around 400 pupils in fourteen classes and are in the midst of significant growth due to large-scale house building in the village. We were awarded "Good" school grading in the Ofsted Inspection of July 2017. The report describes very high standards in all aspects of the school's activities. All school staff are dedicated and capable practitioners and the quality of teaching is at a consistently high level. Outcomes for pupils are consistently good throughout the school. Our children are nurtured, kept safe and are well cared for (Ofsted 2017).
Our school building is modern, attractive and well-maintained and includes an exceptional purpose-built 60-place Foundation Stage unit for Reception children, opened in September 2015 and a two classroom Upper Junior unit opened in May 2018 . All classrooms are spacious and well-equipped and the school prides itself on the quality of the classroom displays.
Our school is one of ten schools in the LiFE Multi Academy Trust. This collaborative school network currently comprises of 4 primary and 6 secondary schools and enables us to keep abreast of current developments in education and continually to develop and improve all aspects of our practice. We work within a group of local schools to the same end.
Arranging a visit to Desford Community Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email kbarnett@desford.leics.sch.uk.
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