Salary: MPS or UPS depending on experience plus TLR2b
Terms and conditions in line with National Teaching Standards
Post commences Autumn Term 2024
Are you passionate about teaching and learning? Do you have experience and expertise in EYFS enabling you to facilitate academic and personal growth?
Due to the promotion of the previous Early Years Lead, Woodstock Primary Academy are excited to be able to offer the opportunity for an outstanding Early Years Practitioner to come and lead in our recently refurbished Early Years setting.
We are offering:
- excellent support and a planned programme of high quality CPD through the MAT
- the chance to transform the educational experience of our enthusiastic children
- the opportunity to become part of a team whose collective aim is to improve the life chances of the nearly 3000 children for whom we are currently collectively responsible
- supportive, hardworking colleagues and Governors who care passionately about our academy and the local community
- a staff discount scheme for your favourite shops on the high street
- a well being offer that includes counselling sessions and Barclays Money Matters advice line.
Are you the candidate we are looking for?
- Do you have QTS?
- Are you highly motivated and passionate about improving educational outcomes for all?
- Are you an excellent practitioner able to identify and plan around children's interests?
- Are you committed to supporting the aspirational vision shared by the whole school and the trust?
- Do you have high expectations of pupils’ achievements, attainment and behaviour?
- Do you keep children at the heart of teaching and learning?
- Can you implement strategies to improve and raise standards, achievement, and aspirations for all?
The right candidate will be an outstanding teacher at least 4 years into their teaching career, with the knowledge, personal qualities and commitment needed to further improve outcomes for our children and ensure they are motivated, inspired and happy learners. They will possess the leadership skills and potential to guide staff as a team, ensuring consistency of practice and achievement of the highest possible standards.
Visits to the school and encouraged and welcomed. Please note that shortlisted candidates will be observed in their current setting. They may then be invited for a panel interview and presentation.
Applications close: 19th April 2024
Interviews week commencing: 29th April 2024
The Learning without Limits Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS with barred list check, and a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Social Media Checks
As part of the shortlisting process, in line with measures identified in statutory guidance relating to safeguarding practice, the Trust will conduct searches on candidates selected for interview, through a third party, on social media in order to identify anything that could give rise to a safeguarding concern in what has been said or done online. Only information relevant to safeguarding concerns obtained from the search will be passed over for consideration during the recruitment process.
Diversity Statement
As an equal opportunities employer, the Learning without Limits Academy Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.