Class Teacher with Leadership Responsibilities

  Make your next step in leadership

This position offers exciting opportunities to join the team in a dynamic, vibrant school and the growing Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust (CMAT).

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated teacher, with leadership experience who is now keen to develop further. We have opportunities for the right person to manage the staff, teaching and learning development within West Town Primary Academy, as well as opportunities to extend your experience by leading projects in the other academies that we work with. You will have a key role in developing staff, monitoring and analysing data, and being responsible for phase leadership as well as a key area of development. This unique role will enable you to be flexible with a mixture of classroom based work delivering great teaching and modelling good practice but experiencing the leadership and management of a growing team and developing your leadership skills.

Within the Trust we also have opportunities across the wider education field for you in the future and can offer involvement in training and projects beyond the school including working as an SLE and delivering training through our teaching schools.

For the right candidate it has the potential to offer fantastic opportunities to lead and manage a sizeable group of teachers and contribute to the direction of an adventurous and forward thinking team.

We can offer you:

• Exciting leadership development within and beyond the Academy

• Opportunities to develop as an SLE

• Excellent support from the Trust with your own development through MA modules or similar

• Further leadership opportunities within the trust 

• A friendly and supportive positive team to work in

• A state of the art new learning environment

• Involvement in an established and growing academy trust 

• Potential recruitment allowance.

We are looking for someone who:

• Is keen to share and develop their own excellent practice

• Has proven impact in subject leadership and improvement

• Has a proven good record as a reflective classroom practitioner 

• Is enthusiastic about the opportunities in our new school

• Has the skills to guide and advise others in practice and development

• Has high expectations of their own teaching and the children

• Has the skill to maximise children's learning

For contact details visit our website at www.westtownprimary.org, the closing date for applications is 9am on Wednesday 3rd October 2018. Interviews will be on Monday 8th October 2018. Please contact Helen Buckley on 01733 852400 to arrange a visit to find out more about the post.

West Town Primary Academy and CMAT are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. 

This post has a salary within the national leadership pay scale. The anticipated start date is January 2019.