Extended Services Education Deputy Lead
Farndon Fields Primary School, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 9JH15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
20 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,997.00 - £27,272.00 Annually (Actual)
Extended Services Education Deputy Lead job summary
Extended Services Education Deputy Lead
Grade 7, Pay Point 11-14
Term-Time hours - 35 hours per week and 39 weeks per year. Monday - Friday , 7.00-9.00 am and 2.45-6.00 pm ( With additional hours to be worked flexibly)
Non Term-Time hours - Monday - Friday 45 hours per week (with a hour unpaid lunch break)
(Overall average 37 hours per week over 52 weeks per year)
The Starting Salary is based on working 37 hours per week over 52 weeks per year, due to the nature of the role
Multiple locations in our Primary Schools - Primary Schools - Discovery (discoverytrust.org)
If you are a positive, dynamic person, committed to providing children with caring, high quality and fun activities, and would like to work with us to develop our new model of Extended Services excites you, then we want to hear from you!
Discovery Extended Services provides Wrap Around Care and Holiday Camp provisions across our Primary schools. We are excited to be recruiting for a range of new roles that will be based within the central Discovery Trust Extended Services Team, to further develop our current and future provision model. We have excellent staff benefits and a commitment to training and supporting the right candidates.
Discovery’s aim is to ensure children that attend our Extended Services provisions are provided with an opportunity to engage in activities both indoors and outdoors, while being cared for by trusted and engaging adults. We know that providing high quality and engaging environments support the holistic wellbeing and learning for each child, which will encourage children to have a healthy body and a healthy mind. Being healthy and having access to physical and creative activities boosts children’s self-esteem and confidence and supports the development of life skills such as independence, resilience, and the ability to attend to their learning.
‘High-quality care is essential, not only as a service for parents but a chance for children to explore interests, make friends and experience things our school curriculum is unable to embrace because of time. I am immensely proud of the work our clubs are doing with children and the quality of provision they provide. Our out of school care is a core feature of a modern education system that needs to be affordable safe and exciting.' Paul Stone - CEO Discovery
If you would like more information, please call or email Lee Gill, who is our Extended Services Manager - 07961600811 / lgill@discoverytrust.org
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached to support with your application.
What we offer:
- Exciting opportunity to help shape the future of Discovery’s Extended Services Provision
- Free childcare at WAC for your children (Primary age only)
- Free childcare at Holiday Camp for your children (Primary age only)
- Fuel cost (for miles over and above your daily assigned commute) at 0.45p per mile
- Career progression opportunities (Senior roles, teacher training opportunities)
- Full induction provided
- Commitment to training and professional development opportunities
- Staff benefits platform
- Working within the Trust Central Team and attending central team opportunities such as our annual conferences and trust inset day
- Employee Assistance Programme - EAP
- Employee self-service portal
- Eyecare voucher scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Retail discounts
- Dental support
- Gym discount
More about Discovery Schools Trust
Discovery Schools Trust is dedicated to improving learning and teaching by creating a culture that promotes excellence. The needs of all children are placed at the heart of all decision making regardless of the school they attend. Teaching and learning excellence are shared through learning networks, sharing of ideas and materials as well as leading practitioners between schools. Discovery has developed a school improvement system which focuses on improving outcomes for all children. It also places staff development, talent management and succession planning at the heart of achieving outstanding organisations.
Safeguarding Statement: We are committed to safeguarding our pupils; therefore, the successful applicant will require an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and references.
While we acknowledge the advantages of AI in crafting personal statements for applications, we strongly encourage and expect applicants to personalise and tailor responses. Please note that the Trust may utilise AI checking solutions during the application review process and will be considered when shortlisting.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Farndon Fields Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 354 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Farndon Fields Primary School website (opens in new tab)
We are a friendly, nurturing, inclusive school set in beautiful, extensive grounds on the edge of Market Harborough. We currently have approximately 300 children on roll including our Preschool and our school is growing, with six additional classrooms completed in January 2019.
Our vision is for Farndon Fields to be a high achieving, vibrant learning community in which children are nurtured, motivated and have outstanding expectations for themselves and others. We believe that every member of our school community has a right to achieve their potential in an atmosphere which balances support with challenge. We provide a climate for learning which encourages creativity, is enjoyable, safe, exciting, and well-structured. We are passionate about improving the health and life choices for all our children and our school ethos promotes health, well–being, self-esteem and resilience and these are the foundations for our children to be successful in all they do. Our goal - underpinned by our four foundation stones of Nurture, Inspire, Learn, Succeed - is to develop life-long learning characteristics in children that encourage self leadership skills, helping each child to be the very best they can be.
We enjoy close links with our parents and community. We believe that strong and effective parent partnerships are key to the successful academic, social and emotional development of the children in our care. We also have established collaborative partnerships with other schools in the locality, in our Trust, with the Affinity Teaching School Alliance and Inspiring Leaders Teacher Training. In a rapidly changing educational landscape, we know that working in partnership is a vital way to grow our capacity and improve on the achievement of our school. Here at Farndon Fields we recognise that progress can come from the power of many if we have a common aim: to achieve success for all.
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