11 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    August 2025

  • Closing date

    19 May 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    7 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 1, Key stage 2

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

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 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.

Applying for the job

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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
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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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