Initial Teacher Training Lead
Tanners Brook Primary School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 4PF9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 April 2025 at 8am
Date listed
9 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- L7 to L9 (FTE £57,831pa to £60,644pa)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about Initial Teacher Training? Do you have experience of working with trainees? Do you thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, enjoy working as part of a team, and enjoy supporting and developing the next generation of teachers? If so, this is the perfect opportunity for you!
Inspiring Future Teachers (IFT) is seeking an experienced teacher, with knowledge of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) to lead the HISP Teacher Training Hub, as part of Inspiring Future Teachers. You'll play a vital role in leading the ongoing review and development of the HISP Teacher Training Hub, leading and working as part of a team to ensure the smooth running of the day-to-day operational activities and delivery of the training programme. You will work as part of Inspiring Future Teachers to ensure high-quality programme delivery and compliance, in line with the DfE ITT Criteria. Your knowledge and support will provide valuable insights and guidance to a team of expert colleagues working alongside you as part of HISP Teacher Training, including Mentors and Professional Tutors within partnership schools.
What We’re Looking For:
- Experienced teacher with knowledge of Initial Teacher Training (ITT)
- Holds Qualified Teacher Status
- Experience with teaching the secondary phase
- An eye for detail and drive for excellence
- A creative, organised, and proactive professional who remains calm under pressure
- A commitment to safeguarding
What the school offers its staff
Why Join Us?
- Work as part of a dynamic team
- Eligibility to join the Teachers Pension Scheme
- Enjoy flexibility in working hours and opportunities for personal growth
- Access to professional development
Further details about the role
- To lead in the delivery and quality assurance of the IFT curriculum.
- To work with trainees, mentors and assessors in leading the arrangements for assessment and moderation of trainees within hub area.
- Quality assurance of the delivery of the curriculum at Hub level, ensuring fidelity to the IFT curriculum and undertake self-evaluation and development planning at Hub level, to support and inform IFT evaluation and action plans.
- Quality assurance of the provision of mentoring and provide termly face-to-face networking and training to support local context, to ensure standards of practice remain high.
- Track and monitor the progress of trainees within the IFT programme to secure positive outcomes for trainees.
- To work alongside the Inspiring Future Teachers Leadership Team to promote the IFT offer through local partnerships and attendance at local marketing events.
- To organisation and evaluate ITT recruitment events within Hub area.
- To manage the selection and interview process in compliance with the DfE ITT Criteria and IFT Recruitment Policy and Process.
- To contribute to the annual review the IFT curriculum, assessment criteria, policy and frameworks.
Commitment to safeguarding
The HISP Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks. We are also committed to providing equality of opportunity at all stages of the recruitment and selection process and ensuring that candidates are treated fairly and lawfully throughout the process.
Applying for the job
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Additional documents
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About Tanners Brook Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Tanners Brook Primary School website
- Email address
- hr@hispmat.org
HISP Multi Academy Trust believe in building excellent educational environments that inspire and unlock potential in all our school communities. We currently have five schools within our Trust covering the age ranges from nursery to Sixth Form with plans to expand and grow quickly across our geographical location.
We are an ambitious Trust and have a broad range of outward facing accreditations that support our schools and those within our local area. We are part of the Education Endowment Foundation Network with our HISP Research School. Evidence informed practice underpins our ethos, professional development and school improvement. We have an outstanding provision for training new teachers through our Hampshire SCITT Partnership, which also supports career progression for staff within our Trust and links to higher education. We have been designated, by the DfE, with two Teaching School Hubs covering Portsmouth, Southampton, the Isle of Wight and the South-Eastern and South Western parts of Hampshire. The core purpose behind the Teaching School Hubs is to become centres of excellence for teaching and leadership training
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