Reception Year Group Leader
Courthouse Green Primary School, Coventry, West Midlands, CV6 7JJ33 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2026
Closing date
14 April 2026 at 10am
Date listed
11 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £42,057.00 Annually (FTE) 32.5 hours per week, full time M1 - M5 plus TLR2A £3527
Reception Year Group Leader job summary
Salary
MPS 1- 5
£32,916 - £42,057 FTE
Contract
Permanent
Hours
32.5 hours per week, Full tIme
Reporting to:
Start Date
01st September 2026
Specific Areas of Responsibility
All teachers are subject to the conditions of employment set out annually in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD). This job description reflects the National Professional Standards for Teachers which identifies different expectations of teachers at different stages in their career.
Role of the Leader will include:
- Leaders are accountable for the quality of provision and the standards of achievement in their year team. They are supported in their work by the senior staff. They take responsibility for the effective day to day running of their aspect of leadership and promote the safeguarding and well being of children.
- 1. Teaching and Learning
- To provide a role model for teaching and learning by:
- Demonstrating at least good classroom practice and being a role model to others
- Developing your own practice through self evaluation and appropriate training
- Sharing expertise across school
- Ensuring appropriate coverage, continuity, consistency and progression in the curriculum
- Providing guidance on the choice of appropriate teaching and learning strategies to colleagues
2. Strategic Direction
To make an impact on educational progress beyond assigned pupils by:
- Raising the standards of teaching and learning through the support of staff and modelling of effective strategies
- Maintaining high quality provision ensuring that learning experiences and the environment promote and reflect best practice
- Ensuring that information about pupils achievement is used effectively to secure good progress
- Supporting the implementation of the school’s self evaluation strategies through the monitoring of practice
3. Leadership
- To secure high quality teaching and learning, effective use of resources and improved standards of attainment for all pupils in your area of leadership:
- Adhering to the National Standards for Leaders
- Developing and implementing policies and practices to ensure high achievement and effective teaching and learning
- Ensuring curriculum continuity and coverage and progression for all pupils
- Effectively deploy support staff to best meet the needs of the children
- Monitoring and evaluating the quality of teaching and learning
- Identifying key areas for school improvement within the subject and evaluating progress against it
4. Accountability
- To contribute to the leadership, management and development of whole school practice by:
- Attending as appropriate leadership Team meetings
Offering total external support to all decisions made
Liaising with the Leadership Team and other Team Leaders to support school Improvement issues
Undertaking all such other duties as are reasonable and appropriate to the nature of the post as determined by the Headteacher.
Safeguarding
- To ensure that all students have a safe environment in which they can learn, reporting any concern about the environment to a member of the site team or if appropriate to one of the Designated Safeguarding Leaders
- To be aware of systems which support safeguarding and following the procedures as highlighted in the Safeguarding Policy
- To identify students who may benefit from early help as soon as possible and discuss this with one of the Designated Safeguarding Leaders
- To consider at all times what is in the best interests of the child
- To protect students from maltreatment; preventing impairment of student’s health or development; ensuring that students grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
- To take action to enable all students to have the best outcomes
Other Specific Duties
- To continue personal development as agreed
- To engage actively in the performance review process
- Establish and maintain effective relationships and communication with staff, parents and students
- Uphold the high standards of the school in all communications.
- Adhere to the schools policies.
- Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task to be undertaken may not be identified
- Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description
- Employees are expected to adhere to Courthouse Green’s Primary School agreed Code of Conduct
- The school will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition
Generic Responsibilities of all Courthouse Green Primary School
- Individuals have a responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people they are responsible for or comes into contact with. Part of this responsibility involves the checking of visitor identification at the point of school entry and the issuing of relevant safeguarding information.
- Ensure all tasks are carried out with due regard to Health and Safety
- To remain confidential at all times
- To undertake appropriate professional development including adhering to the principle of appraisal
- To adhere to the ethos of the school
- To promote the agreed vision and aims of the school
- To set an example of personal integrity professionalism
Additional Information & How to Apply
To arrange an informal discussion with the Headteacher and a tour of the school please email ckelly@triumphlearning.org and we will be delighted to arrange this. We would actively encourage a tour or a conversation as we believe our school is unique and this is an important position in the school. To apply for this post we ask that you complete the application form including a personal statement of how you meet the requirements for this role.
Courthouse Green Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, a check of the relevant barred list under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, and a Disqualification Declaration where applicable.
The role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended by subsequent orders, including 2013, 2020 and 2023). This means you are required to disclose spent convictions and cautions, except for those that are defined as “protected” under the Police Act 1997 (Part V) and the associated DBS filtering rules introduced in 2013, revised in 2020, and updated in 2023. Protected convictions and cautions do not need to be disclosed and will not be taken into account in the recruitment process.
Courthouse Green Primary School will be undertaking online checks of shortlisted candidates as part of KCSiE 2023 guidance.
This job description is current at the date shown but in consultation with the post holder may be changed by the Headteacher to reflect or anticipate changes in the job commensurate with the grade and job title. We reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy at any time
Triumph Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. TLT is always happy to receive speculative applications from excellent teachers and support staff.
The school will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Courthouse Green Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 710 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Courthouse Green Primary School website
Courthouse Green Primary School - an academy of Triumph Multi Academy Trust
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