Teacher
Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3BA2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
6 May 2024 at 9am
Date listed
22 April 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to M6
What skills and experience we're looking for
We seek a dedicated and enthusiastic KS1 teacher to join our forward-thinking school. We are looking for someone with excellent behaviour management and interpersonal skills, who can offer creative and stimulating teaching and learning opportunities to our children in Key Stage One. You must have the ability to inspire and be passionate about raising standards for all our children through a rich and varied curriculum.
We welcome applications from Early Career Teachers. In return, we offer a caring and supportive whole-school ethos, an excellent team of staff and high-quality opportunities for professional development and collaborative working.
What the school offers its staff
Mission: ‘Inspire, Empower and Achieve – a commitment to excellence’
Vision: ‘To create a home for world class learning that improves the lives of each child in our family of schools.’
Our Vision and Mission statements are underpinned by our Trust Values:
Working for Empower Trust is rewarding in lots of ways. We value and appreciate our people and recognise our staff are instrumental to the success of the Trust. We therefore offer a wide range of exciting and useful benefits to all our employees:
Career Progression and Staff Development
We are committed to developing our staff and to providing opportunities for growth. We want to encourage the career progression of our employees wherever possible, and support staff who wish to move between our schools and the Central Team when suitable roles arise. We also offer secondment opportunities when available.
At Empower Trust you would be working alongside excellent leaders in education, each with specific areas of expertise. We offer Middle and Senior Leadership development programmes, professional support networks and career development pathways for staff at all levels. In addition, we also have mentoring and coaching programmes, peer learning, internal and external CPD opportunities.
Health and Wellbeing Services
Working in education is a challenging job and the health and wellbeing of our staff is high on our agenda and a key priority. We have several Trust wide wellbeing initiatives that offer support and guidance for our workforce:
- A Trust Wellbeing Strategy and Charter outlining our commitment to staff wellbeing
- At least one trained Mental Health First Aider in every location, helping to embed our belief that physical and mental health hold equal importance
- A network of Mental Health First Aiders and Mental Health Leads who provide support, guidance, and signposting to colleagues across the Trust
- A Future in Mind network representing all our academies, who signpost staff to wellbeing support and information, and ensure staff voice is heard
- A designated Trustee sponsor whose role is to ensure staff wellbeing remains a priority
- Wellbeing is a discussion item on each Trustee / Local Governing Body meeting agenda
- Dissemination of annual staff wellbeing questionnaires to inform future actions
- Active engagement in national and international awareness days
- Working towards the Mental Health at Work Commitment and the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter
Employee Assistance Programme
We are committed to ensuring everyone at Empower Trust gets access to the support they need for personal issues as well as any work-related worries. Our completely confidential Employee Assistance Programme offers numerous services:
- Physiotherapy and musculoskeletal (MSK) services
- Confidential counselling via face-to-face therapy or secure online video sessions
- Stress coaching
- Support services for menopause, long covid, bereavement, cancer, cardiac conditions, lung conditions, medical trauma, mental health problems, motor neurone disease, orthopaedic conditions, multiple sclerosis
- 24/7 GP helpline and prescription service, offering consultation, private prescriptions, open referrals, and fit notes
- Surgical assistance programme
Flexible and Family-Friendly Policies
Our employment policies are flexible and responsive to promote diversity and equality, as well as attract and retain the highest quality workforce. We offer flexible working opportunities; job share arrangements, term time working and part time-roles; generous family leave packages; and compassionate or emergency leave.
Pension Scheme
We offer an excellent pension scheme with either the Local Government Pension Scheme (support staff) or the Teachers’ Pension Scheme which include death in service benefits. As well as employee’s paying contributions into the scheme (banded, based on earnings level) Empower Trust also pays a generous contribution on your behalf.
Cycle to Work Scheme
Save on the cost of the commute, promote a healthy lifestyle, and reduce your carbon footprint - all with our superb cycle to work scheme! Find the bike of your dreams and save up to 42% in tax and NI contributions. Whether it’s a mountain bike, BMX, fixie, electric cycle, or one of those natty bikes with a basket on the front, get the wheels you really want; all at an affordable cost spread over 12 to 18 months.
Other Benefits
- Eye care scheme
- Attractive annual leave allowance
- Free on-site parking
- In-house catering
- Financial wellbeing support
- Discounts for teachers – https://www.discountsforteachers.co.uk/
Further details about the role
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
Please complete the online application.
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About Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 7
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 374 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 7
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin@marketdraytoninfants.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01630 652909
Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School is a thriving three form entry school with a large early years nursery. We believe the time our pupils spend with us as developing learners is the most important in all their years of education. We are determined to keep innovating and building on improvements to ensure we provide the very best learning opportunities for all.
"An excellent, happy school where we enjoy learning"
Our school values are at the core of everything we do. They underpin our teaching and learning, and provide an environment which prepares our pupils as confident, happy citizens.
Our school vision is "to create a learning environment which encourages every individual to achieve their best in all aspects of their lives".
Our values underpin the vision statement and aims. At our school we especially value:
Collaboration: 'We work together to support and nurture everyone to achieve their aims'
Aspirations: 'We encourage each other to aim high and achieve their aspirations’
Respect: ‘We are honest, thoughtful and considerate to ourselves, others and the world around us'
Positivity: 'We adopt a 'can do' and optimistic attitude'
These values underpin everything that we do in order to achieve excellence.
Arranging a visit to Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School
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