Early Career Lead
Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 6DFThis job expired on 16 March 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
21 August 2023
Closing date
16 March 2023 at 9am
Date listed
7 February 2023
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 3 days (22.5 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £36,298-£40,478
What skills and experience we're looking for
Main responsibilities:
Deliver Initial Teacher Training
- Develop and deliver the Hubs Initial Teacher Training SCITT working with key partners, across MATs, LA funded schools and national partners.
- Management of AB and ITT administration staff
- Embed evidence-informed practice in all parts of ITT delivery, supporting schools’ engagement with the role out of Initial Teacher Training.
- Supporting with recruitment of trainees onto the SCITT.
- Effectively use a robust Quality Assurance framework to ensure the quality of all Initial Teacher Training provision, ensuring appropriate training and support is in place for Schools and trainees.
- Build and market the ITT provision.
- Communicate with Key Stake holders around ITT requirements and hold these to account if not met.
- Remain up to date with key policy reforms and research communicating these clearly to stakeholders.
- Be a highly effective Facilitator for both Trainees and Leaders undertaking Professional Development, providing a model to other Facilitators whilst working with National Lead Providers to ensure that training materials are improved over time.
Lead Appropriate Body
- Lead Appropriate body and Early Career Framework aspects of the Teaching School Hub: To lead the TSH’s Appropriate Body (AB) service and related KPIs, ensuring that its statutory duties relating to the induction of Early Career Teachers (ECTs) is fully delivered on i.e., checking that headteachers/principals put in place an induction programme for their ECTs, ensuring that this programme of support is clearly based on the Early Career Framework (ECF), and otherwise supporting schools to meet their statutory duties.
- Use robust systems to track and support Early Career teachers, ensuring appropriate and effective fulfilment of the designated body role.
What the school offers its staff
- Provide support and guidance to Early Career Teachers and Schools including writing effective plans of support and tracking progress against these.
- Track teacher development and retention across the locality, monitoring the financial implications of retention for the Hub.
- Build and market the AB provision.
- Report to with the Teaching School Hub Director to ensure a robust financial model and managing allocated budget for ITT and AB services.
- Support and develop mentors and ECTs in bespoke ways to ensure maximum impact on pupils.
- Track and monitor induction periods of ECTs across the Hubs area and sign off induction periods in collaboration with Headteachers.
- Co-ordinate external stakeholders to leverage support for Early Career Teachers, their mentors and induction co-ordinators.
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Multi Academy Trust/ Wider Responsibilities
- To work with the school teams to support the development of staff across the Trust.
- Act as a positive advocate for the Trust.
- Support the growth and development of the Trust.
- Support the Catholic mission, vision and values of the Trust.
- Engage with the Trust central team as required, working in a collaborative and positive way with the wider team.
- To maintain a commitment to your own professional development, ensuring that you engage with wider educational research and thinking so that you can continue to effectively contribute to the strategic vision of the LRTSH.
- Be aware of and comply with all Trust policies and procedures.
- Work in a flexible way to respond to the needs of the Trust and to fulfil other duties and responsibilities appropriate to the grade and role as and when required.
Further details about the role
The Early Career Lead at the Teaching School Hub will be responsible for supporting Appropriate Body services and delivering on Initial Teacher Training elements of the Teaching School Hub. The Hub covers approximately 209 schools in the Hub designated area as well as working with schools across the Diocese of Nottingham and other areas of the East Midlands. The LRTSH will works with partnership organisations and schools across Charnwood, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton, North West Leicestershire, Rutland and beyond.
The Early Career Lead would support on ensuring that Early Career Teachers across those schools are fully supported throughout their induction, providing support and guidance to school leaders mentors and teachers as well as being accountable for signing off the induction periods of over 300 Early Career Teachers each Year. The Early Career Lead will also lead the facilitation and progress monitoring of the Leicestershire and Rutland Initial Teacher Training programme, managing relationships with senior stakeholders in schools, delivering training and bespoke support to trainees and mentors.
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 Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 628 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- Contact@Lrtshub.org.uk
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