Phase Leader
Walkergate Community School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE6 4SD4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
25 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time (Can be done as a job share): This post is part time, working 25.92 hours a week, Monday - Thursday 6.48 hours per day
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until 31st January 2026 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership Pay Range L1 - L4 £49,781 - £53,602
Actual salary
- Actual salary £39,775 - £42,828 per annum pro rata
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a colleague who has:
- A demonstrable track record of excellent teaching practice.
- Experience of managing a team of staff.
- Qualified teacher status.
- Ablilityto contribute effectively to the management, organisation and running of the school.
What the school offers its staff
In return we offer:
- Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across the trust.
- A team of hardworking, dedicated and friendly staff where everyone is valued.
- The benefitof working in a highly collaborative multi academy trust.
- Membership of theLocal Government PensionScheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
- Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured – the UK and Ireland’s leading wellbeing provider.
- Good public transport links via Tyne and Wear Metro and road links from the A19 and A1058 Coast Road.
Further details about the role
This post is part time, working 25.92 hours a week, covering maternity leave until 31st January 2026.
The working pattern for this role is ideally Monday - Thursday 6.48 hours per day
Are you driven by making a difference and shaping young minds? Walkergate Community School is seeking to appoint a Phase Leader to support the senior leadership team and be accountable for the educational progress of learners within a designated learning phase. This is an exciting opportunity to effectively lead teaching and learning, develop one or more curriculum area and line manage a team of teaching and support staff.
This is an exciting opportunity to effectively lead teaching and learning, develop one or more curriculum area and line manage a team of teaching and support staff.
Our school is one of seven primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East. We have a national research school, which aims to build and strengthen networks of schools throughout the region and help them access effective education research and implement it in everyday practice.
Our school motto is ‘Together we make a difference’. At Walkergate Community School we are lucky enough to have a passionate workforce who all care for and respect the fantastic children of our school. As a research school, we are dedicated to school improvement and we all aim to provide a happy, safe and engaging school environment for the children and our staff too.
Interested? If you would like to join us and feel you could thrive here, then please read the accompanying job description and person specification, and complete an application form by clicking ‘apply now’ no later than midnight on Monday 25th November 2024.
NEAT is committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of pre-employment checks. For shortlisted candidates, we will conduct an online search as part of our screening.
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 Walkergate Community School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 656 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Walkergate Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- k.stockill@neatat.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0191 2655737
Walkergate Community School is a large primary school with teaching school status. we are part of Newcastle East mixed Multi Academy Trust and work closely with our partner schools.
Arranging a visit to Walkergate Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email k.stockill@neatat.org.uk.
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