Early Years Lead

Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park, London, SE15 5TD

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Negotiable

• Closing date

  2 December 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  25 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Head of year or phase
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £40,766-£52,288 + TLR
• Pay scale: MPS (Inner London) + £2,000 Harris Allowance + TLR
• Additional allowances:

  Performance & Loyalty Bonus + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Additional Harris Benefits

What skills and experience we're looking for

Inspire our little learners! We are currently looking to appoint an Early Years Foundation Stage Leader to join our dedicated and supportive team at Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park. This role is well suited to an individual with teaching experience in a primary school environment looking to develop in a thriving academy environment.

We would like to hear from you if you have:

• Qualified Teacher Status
• A proven track record of recent and successful class teaching in mixed ability classes of primary age
• Successful experience of teaching the primary curriculum
• Goodunderstanding of current theory and best practice in teaching and learning, particularly as it relates toachieving high rates of progress of children of primary age
• Good subject knowledge of core National Curriculum
• EYFS experience
• The ability to teach second language.
• Some knowledge ofEnglishas a specialist subject

What the school offers its staff

Welcome to Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park where we are proud to celebrate the wide range of backgrounds, abilities, faiths and cultures within our school. Our success lies in our drive to ensure every pupil takes pride in their skills, abilities, and talents and uses these to help them attain the highest possible level of education.

We work together to ensure that our children have a bright, safe, secure and happy place to learn. We celebrate their achievements and encourage mutual respect for one another. We feel that by working together with our children, parents, carers, staff, governors and the wider community we can encourage our pupils to show respect, take responsibility and show resilience as they grow with us.

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level. In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Further details about the role

As EYFS Leader, your role will be to act as the lead professional for Early Years, ensuring outstanding provision is developed and that all staff in the Foundation Stage are outstanding practitioners. Your responsibilities include:

• Coordinating and monitoring the weekly and medium term planning of staff within the foundation stage and in consultation with the headship team take action as appropriate
• Coordinating the resources for teaching and learning within the foundation stage in conjunction with the school's planning and resourcing policy
• Daily rotas and changes within the foundation stage
• Taking assemblies
• Monitoring discipline and behaviour within the foundation stage
• Ensuring the availability of advice to all members of the foundation stage for consistency with the whole school behaviour policy
• Attending management meetings and chair staff meetings as appropriate
• Acting as team leader for performance management

Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

About Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 361 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: info@harrisprimarypeckhampark.org.uk
• Phone number: 020 7639 6091
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harris-primary-academy-peckham-park (opens in new tab)

Our Academy is at the heart of a fantastically diverse community where at least 45 different languages are spoken.

Our ambition is to enable the children to become effective citizens of the future. We aim to develop an Academy community who can:

Build healthy RELATIONSHIPS by becoming RESPECTFUL INDIVIDUALS.
Succeed LIVING IN THE WIDER WORLD by becoming RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS.
Experience positive PHYSICAL HEALTH and WELL-BEING by becoming RESILIENT LEARNERS.

School location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in London