Key Stage 1 Phase Lead Teacher
Hady Primary School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 0DF14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
6 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 - UPS 3
Additional allowances
TLR2b
What skills and experience we're looking for
The specific duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Leadership and Management
- Help develop a highly effective Phase Team through effective systems.
- Maintain an ethos and provide educational vision and direction which secures outstanding teaching and learning which leads to outstanding outcomes for pupils in the phase.
- Lead by example, provide inspiration and motivation to your team. Embody for the pupils, staff, governors, and parents the vision, purpose and leadership of learning in the phase.
- Ensure that all teaching staff and non- teaching staff are committed to the school’s aims, and are accountable in meeting long, medium and short-term objectives to secure school improvement, and targets which secure the educational success of all children in the phase.
- Lead professional development of staff through example, creating strong teamwork.
- Support the provision of high-quality professional development by methods such as coaching, drawing on other sources of expertise where appropriate.
- Lead and manage the creation and implementation of a Phase Action Plan, with particular emphasis on improving the quality of teaching, which identifies priorities and targets for ensuring that pupils achieve high standards and make progress, and in securing school improvement.
- Have high expectations of all pupils and staff.
- Think creatively and imaginatively to anticipate and solve problems and identify opportunities.
- To be an exemplary teacher.
- To be a committed and active member of the staff team and school community.
- To share the planning within a specified year group and to prepare and evaluate activities that lead to the effective education of the pupils in your charge, through half-termly, weekly and daily plans.
- To liaise effectively with appropriate teachers when providing cover for your class, including supply cover for course attendance and PPA release.
- To maintain effective records of pupil progress of the assigned class, including groups and individual pupils, using teacher assessment and any other agreed system.
- To ensure the good behaviour of all pupils in the school, supporting whole school procedures, especially those in your care.
- To be committed to the maintenance of high standards and equality of education throughout the school.
- To meet and inform parents of their children’s progress, attitudes, attainment and targets through formal and informal meetings, both before, during and after school.
- To promote the vision, aims and values of the school and to contribute to their development.
- To play a full part in the life of the school, including staff meetings and briefings, INSET, assemblies, liaising with key stakeholders and school policymaking.
- To participate fully in the school self-evaluation process including lesson observations and other appropriate evaluative activities (such as work and planning samples, moderation etc).
- To implement all school policies, promoting equal opportunities for all.
- To undertake any other particular duty reasonably assigned by the Head of Teaching and Learning from time to time
- To work with the Leadership Team to monitor, evaluate and review the effects of policies, priorities and targets of the school in practice, and take action as necessary.
- To contribute to the School Evaluation Form.
- Work with other lead professionals to ensure the use of comparative data, together with information technology about pupils’ prior attainment, to establish benchmarks and set targets for improvement.
- Use this information to from monitoring feedback to inform addressing areas for improvements.
- Manage, monitor, and review the range, quality and quantity of all available resources in order to improve pupils’ achievements, ensure efficiency and secure value for money.
- Act as a line manager and support the team of employees you supervise by leading on all HR processes in line with policies and procedures (supported by HR and SLT) eg: probation and induction, appraisals etc.
- Plan, monitor and manage the relevant academic year departmental budget (if applicable to role) that is allocated to the team/department, following finance processes to order and approve departmental requests.
- Manage departmental equipment and resources, leading by example for your team to care for their equipment and environment, logging building or IT faults on the appropriate “helpdesks”.
Teaching and Learning
Achievement and Progress
Management of staff and resources
What the school offers its staff
Hady Primary School is a primary school and nursery, situated in the East of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It welcomes 350 pupils through its doors, from Nursery to Year 6.
Hady Primary aims to provide a nurturing environment, inspiring experience, and firm foundation for growth for the pupils, who are willing to learn, well-behaved and enthusiastic. It does so from an elevated location overlooking Chesterfield, which offers access to outdoor learning areas.
The school strives for excellence, welcomes challenges and delivers consistently strong results and Ofsted judged it to be ‘Good’ at its most recent (ungraded) inspection in April 2024, with evidence that “the inspection grade might be outstanding if a graded inspection were carried out”.
In addition to trust-wide benefits for all staff, those at Hady Primary School also have access to:
- Supportive and friendly staff and leadership team.
- Free staff parking.
You can view the school website at: www.hadyprimaryschool.co.uk.
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
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About Hady Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 315 pupils
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hady Primary School website
- Email address
- recruitment@chorustrust.org
Arranging a visit to Hady Primary School
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