Pre-School Leader
Broomfield School, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, DL7 8RG13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
4 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
20 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,893.00 - £24,414.00 Annually (Actual) Grade F, Scale Points 09-13 , based on the full-time equivalent of £26,409- £28,163.
Pre-School Leader job summary
Job Details
Hours of Work: 37 Hours Per Week, Term Time Only, Including Training Days (39 Weeks Per Year)
Position Type: Permanent
Line Manager: Headteacher
Travel Required: Occasional for CPD
The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.
Broomfield Primary School is on the edge of the beautiful market town of Northallerton. We are a one form entry school, currently with 203 children. We are a welcoming, inclusive school, with strong parental partnerships and a supportive school staff team. Together, we put our children at the heart of all we do, helping every child achieve their full potential. We became an Academy in November 2024, joining the Areté Learning Trust and work closely with the other primary schools in the trust.
We have an exciting opportunity, due to the development of a new school-led preschool for 2-4 year olds which we are opening in September 2025. We are looking for an outstanding and experienced preschool leader to join our school team. You will work closely with our Reception staff and help nurture our children to prepare them for starting school. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is enthusiastic and energetic, keen to be part of this new journey.
We are looking for a preschool practitioner who will be:
A caring person who has the needs of our pupils and their families at the heart of everything they do
A highly effective practitioner and leader who is passionate about education and able to make continuous improvements to their own practice
An excellent role model for staff and pupils and a source of inspiration
A team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
What we can offer:
- Happy and welcoming pupils, staff, governors and Trust
- A warm, collegiate and supportive environment
- The opportunity to be part of a school with a caring environment, part of a growing multi academy trust.
About the Trust
Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.
At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.
Our Trust is committed to promoting:
Health, happiness and wellbeing
A safe, disciplined and supportive environment
A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach
High standards and expectations
Integrity, kindness and good manners
Respect for individuality and difference
Collaborative working to secure excellence
To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.
Why work for us?
We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.
We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.
In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.
Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.
Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.
Regardless of role, we seek staff who:
Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.
Are committed to our Trust values.
Show initiative and are responsive to change.
Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.
Are creative in their approach to problem solving.
Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.
Are team players.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.
Application Process
Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied within the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.
Interviews will take place on as soon as possible after the closing date.
The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks. Online searches may be done as part of due diligence checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
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 Broomfield School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 210 pupils
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Broomfield School website
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