Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent
Start Date: Aug 2025
Salary: MPS/UPS plus TLR -You will be paid within the TLR range, renumeration allowance will be considered for suitable experienced candidates
The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) is a growing partnership of primary and secondary schools situated in the East Midlands. The Trust draws its educational excellence from the established track record of the high quality education provision of Rushey Mead Academy, the Trust’s convertor academy.
TMET provides its academies access to a world-class education network and staff with an employer providing high quality professional development. We are committed to ensuring each academy enables every pupil to achieve the very best. We believe that together we make a positive difference.
Orchard Mead Academy is one of three secondary schools in the Trust and firmly on a journey to transformation.
This is a school where:
- The team is highly experienced and very cohesive
- The curriculum is rich, ambitious and well planned
- Resources are centrally produced, saving on workload
- Smart workload efficient ways of feedback to students are in place
- Professional learning time is built into the school day with nine PL Mondays where the school finishes at 2pm to students so colleagues can plan together
- Behaviour management is centralised and teachers are enabled to flourish
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure check.
How to apply:
If you are interested in this post, please complete the application form online. A letter detailing why you are a suitable candidate for the position should accompany your completed application form.
Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:
- Applicant pack
- Job description
- Application and Recruitment Process document
Closing date: Thursday 3rd April 2025 at 9.00am
Orchard Mead Academy is committed to:
- Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
- Equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, and prevention of discrimination in its many forms
NO AGENCIES OR CVs PLEASE
Safeguarding Statement:
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.
