Job details
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £24,859 to £40,520
Additional allowances
Salary negotiable dependent on experience.
E.Y.F.S Phase Leader job summary
Do you have the qualities our children would like to see in their next teacher?
Are you an experienced Early Years Teacher who is seeking an EYFS Phase Leader role at a 'Good' school with outstanding early years provision?
The Grove is a successful school with a strong ethos and a hugely committed staff team. We are enjoying much success, but know there is a real potential for further development and we have exciting, ambitious plans for the future.
This permanent post would suit an outstanding classroom practitioner who has superb communication skills. Passion is crucial and the successful candidate must have energy and enthusiasm to bring to their classroom and phase, in order that pupil learning is enriched and teaching standards remain high.
Key responsibilities will include:
•Working with the Principal, senior leadership team and school staff to implement the strategic vision for the school focused on continuous improvement.
•Ensuring the school provides education of the highest quality within a happy, secure environment.
•Monitoring staff within the phase to ensure teaching, learning and pupil outcomes are of the highest possible standard.
•Support colleagues by sharing and modelling effective classroom practices, and by monitoring these in order to secure on-going development and improvement.
•Engage in detailed and rigorous analysis of evidence which demonstrates pupil progress; respond and intervene appropriately.
•Actively model and promote a culture of high ambition and expectation.
•As a teacher with phase responsibility, provide a broad, balanced, engaging and challenging curriculum, that fully meets the requirements of the Early Years Curriculum and its assessment, and which is relevant to and accessible to all pupils.
•Use robust systems for school self-evaluation, offering high levels of support, challenge and intervention as required.
•Adhere to an agreed monitoring schedule, reflecting and acting upon findings on an on-going basis.
•Implement the Academy’s behaviour policy and actively work with colleagues to ensure standards of behaviour are high.
•Lead a subject in the academy and support its development across the Trust.
•Act as Performance Reviewer for staff in line with the Performance Management structure.
•This post is class based. An element of non-class based release accompanies the role and will be decided by the Principal and Aspire.
•We can offer you:
•An excellent environment in which to successfully develop your career
•The guidance and support of an experienced Executive Principal, Principal, Phase Leaders and staff teams
•The benefits of working collaboratively with colleagues
•An investment in your CPD and opportunities across the Aspire Academy Trust
Our Multi Academy Trust was formed in September 2014, and incorporates Hammond, Bovingdon, Bedmond, Broadfield, Knutsford and The Grove Academies, along with a well-established Teaching School.
The Trust can offer:
•An exciting opportunity to be part of an expanding organisation with high aspirations
•The opportunity to truly mould and grow alongside our planned organisational growth
•A strong learning environment, evidenced by our learning culture and our teaching school
•The opportunity to help drive the Trust, its employees and its practices towards future excellence
•Collaboration of good practice across the Trust schools
•Have a teaching school as part of the Trust offering excellent training opportunities
•The ability to progress with the Trust schools to leadership posts
•Free meal offered daily to all Trust staff
The Aspire Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. Our interviews will always include relevant questions relating to child protection and/or safeguarding. The successful applicant will be required to undertake a criminal record check.
Visits to the school are welcomed. Please contact Mrs Kelly on 01923 674463.
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.
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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.
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About The Grove Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 486 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
The Grove Academy is a three-form entry Primary school, with a Nursery.
As part of Aspire Academies Trust, we aim to provide an exciting, broad and engaging curriculum, encouraging our children to become confident and resilient life-long learners.
We offer a safe, nurturing and creative environment, that supports, inspires and motivates our children through a breadth of learning opportunities.
