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Reading Lead

Reach Academy Feltham, Feltham, Middlesex, TW13 4AB

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• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  25 June 2024 at 3pm

• Date listed

  11 June 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: 5 Days per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Inner London Mainscale + TLR
• Additional allowances:

  TLR

What skills and experience we're looking for

Reach Academy Feltham

We’ve created a community of pupils, parents and teachers united by the highest expectations of what every young person can achieve and the commitment to do whatever it takes to help them get there.

Role Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated teacher of who is ready to make the transition to their first middle leadership role, or a previous middle leader who would like to have more autonomy for their department and a wider impact across a school.

As the Reading Lead, you are a key person in the Primary School. You have a responsibility to ensure that pupils, who have graduated from our phonics programme, continue to develop fluency and comprehension across a range of genres.

You must champion a love of reading and train teachers to model being readers themselves. You will have responsibility for Book Club and will ensure that this is being taught consistently and to a very high standard across the school.

Within your role, you will need to work very closely with the Phonics Lead and Writing lead to ensure that there is an alignment across all aspects of our English Curriculum. You are a key part of the team, whose job it is to ensure that the entire Primary Curriculum drives for exceptional progress for all our pupils towards a life of choice and opportunity.

You will also have pastoral responsibility for elements of the Primary school. These will sit alongside your curriculum lead role.

The successful candidate will share the school’s vision and the belief that all young people should be able to enjoy a life of choice and opportunity and be committed to ensuring that every child can achieve their full potential.

Personal specification:

• Unwavering belief in the vision and values of Reach Academy Feltham
• Excellent teacher with a constant desire to improve
• Highly organised and attentive to detail
• Clear commitment to character education and the development of the whole child
• Qualified teacher and good honours degree
• Expansive knowledge and passion for your subject
• QTS and a good honours degree (R);
• At least two years teaching experience at Primary level (R);
• Values driven (R);
• Strong and evidenced teaching ability, focused on excellent outcomes for all, especially the most vulnerable (D);
• Excellent communication, interpersonal & organisational skills (D);
• Excellent analytical numeracy and literacy (D);
• Proven ability to motivate others towards an aspirational goal (D).

About the Process - How to apply:

Please read our ‘Safer recruitment’ statement at the end of the job pack.

Follow this link to complete an online application form.

The deadline for application is Tuesday 25th June 2024, at 5pm.

We actively encourage early applications.

Applications will be reviewed as and when they are received.

If you would like to have an informal conversation to discuss the role, please contact the co-headteacher for Primary, Tilly Browne on matilda.browne@reachacademy.org.uk or the co-headteacher for Secondary, Beck Owen onbeck.owen@reachacademy.org.uk

What the school offers its staff

• We care deeply about our entire team. In order to take care of our students, we need to take care of one another. For this reason, Reach Schools offer great employee benefits throughout the year.

• Weekly instructional coaching - Professional development is important to us, so much so that we offer collaborative and non-hierarchical coaching in a fun and shame-free environment, every week.

• 10 inset days - To ensure outstanding staff training and provide time to deeply understand pupil data and plan for great outcomes.

• 5 days term time leave - We understand that accessing desired time off for teachers and school staff can be difficult. Throughout the year, we offer opportunities for team members to accrue term-time leave.

• Flexible Working - A diverse workforce with work-life balance is crucial for our school's stability. If you need to adjust your schedule for personal commitments or seek part-time or hybrid working, don’t hesitate to let us know.

• Enhanced maternity pay - Reach Schools value families and community relationships. For this reason, we aim to be a support system for staff who are on maternity leave.

• Free Friday breakfast - On Fridays we show our appreciation to one another as a staff team with encouraging shout-outs and delicious pastries.
  

Commitment to safeguarding

Reach Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the processwelfare of children and young people.

In order to meet this responsibility all candidates will be subjected to a
rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable
applicants.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

RAF Reading Lead Job Pack (1).pdf - 1.24 MB (opens in new tab)

About Reach Academy Feltham

• School type: Free School, ages 2 to 19
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 898 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Reach Academy Feltham website
• Email address: recruitment@reachacademy.org.uk
• Phone number: 0208 893 1099
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/reach-academy-feltham

Welcome to Reach Academy Feltham. Our staff are all driven by our mission to equip all of our pupils with the skills, attitudes and academic qualifications to enable them to go on to enjoy lives of choice and opportunity. Our school focuses on bringing together the whole community in a shared dedication to do whatever it takes to achieve successful outcomes for the children we all love and care for.

We have the highest academic expectations whilst maintaining a loving, family-focused culture. As the Co-Headteachers, and supported by our Senior Leadership Team, we aim to know every pupil as an individual, harnessing the power of family relationships and all-through knowledge, to ensure that we can tailor our curriculum, support and resources to meet each child's needs and desires.

Arranging a visit to Reach Academy Feltham

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@reachacademy.org.uk.

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