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Early Years Lead

Early Years Lead

Hazelwood Academy

Swindon

Salary:
Main Pay Range/ Upper Pay Range + TLR + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Additional AET Benefits
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2023
Apply by:
17 April 2023

Job overview

Main Pay Range/ Upper Pay Range + TLR

Pension Scheme (TPS) + Additional AET Benefits

Full Time, Permanent

September 2023 start

An outstanding development opportunity for an ambitious middle leader to join our Senior Leadership Team.

We are a Primary Academy with an attached Nursery, situated in West Swindon, located just off J16 of the M4. There are currently just over 200 pupils on roll and pupils benefit from a modern, purpose built school building with extensive grounds. The Academy is at an exciting stage in its journey and is committed to securing the future of Hazelwood Academy as a centre of excellence and innovation, where talent is nurtured.

The position of Early Years Lead is a pivotal role for our academy. We are looking for an ambitious middle leader with a true passion for Early Years to join our Senior Leadership Team. Within this post, you will be teaching our Reception class whilst overseeing the delivery of our EYFS offer within our two Nursery rooms. We have a room of two year-olds and a room of three year-olds in our Nursery and collaborative, enthusiastic and proactive teams within both rooms that you will thoroughly enjoy working closely with. There is a shared sense of purpose across our EYFS colleagues and every staff member loves what they do. 

If you're passionate about supporting our students and would like to join a friendly, supportive and welcoming team of staff, we would love to hear from you.

Some of the things Hazelwood offers include: 

  • We have excellent transport links as we are situated just off J16 of the M4  
  • We have a beautiful, modern, purpose-built site  
  • We also have extensive grounds and our own forest school facility  
  • We have good community links and very supportive parents who value the work of the academy  
  • We have regular CPD opportunities, both through the school and the trust and are always looking to develop our staff  
  • We have a team of happy, proactive and supportive colleagues who are welcoming of new staff  
  • We can also offer a staff well being package and recognise that a work-life balance is crucial for all our teachers and support staff 

Closing date: Monday April 17th 2023

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

In line with our safeguarding practices, we are unable to accept CV’s. Apply today and join us to help create an excellent education for all.

Academies Enterprise Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a robust, fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Academies Enterprise Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part time and flexible working opportunities will be considered. 

We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. 

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AET is recruiting for Teacher Training placements. Please visit our website https://sites.google.com/aetschools.org/itt/ for further details.

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We are a Primary Academy with an attached Nursery, situated in West Swindon, Wiltshire located just off J16 of the M4. There are currently approximately 220 pupils on roll and pupils benefit from a modern, purpose built school building with extensive grounds. The Academy, rated ‘good’ in its recent Ofsted inspection, is at an exciting stage in its journey and is committed to securing the future of Hazelwood Academy as a centre of excellence and innovation, where talent is nurtured. We serve a fantastically rich and varied catchment area.

We are extremely proud of all that goes on here. The children at Hazelwood are supported by enthusiastic and dedicated staff, governors and parents; and we strive to maintain high standards and excitement about learning.

Ofsted commented that the “good quality of teaching leads to pupils” increasingly good progress. High expectations have helped to raise pupils’ achievement. Teachers and assistants skilfully foster good working relationships with pupils

Our Curriculum

Here at Hazelwood Academy we provide a creative curriculum based around the   Cornerstones Curriculum, a nationally recognised approach for delivering outstanding learning opportunities for children.

The Cornerstones Curriculum is a creative and thematic approach to learning that is mapped to the 2014 Primary National Curriculum to ensure comprehensive coverage of national expectations. Our new curriculum will be delivered through Imaginative Learning Projects (ILPs) which will provide a rich menu of exciting and motivating learning activities that make creative links between all aspects of our children’s learning.

We believe children learn better when they are encouraged to use their imagination and apply their learning to engaging contexts. Our new curriculum will provide lots of learning challenges throughout the academic year that will require children to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding effectively across the curriculum.

Cornerstones also provide a rigorous essential skills framework that outlines the end of year expectations in all subjects. These essential skills are tied to activities and are age related so that staff can track children’s progress and identify their individual learning needs.

Our Specialism and Awards

To view our achievements please click here

Ofsted

We are judged to be a 'good' school and we were last inspected in June 2018. To view all our Ofsted reports please click  here

WHY JOIN OUR ACADEMY?

Staff Benefits

Development:

We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences  that will support you on your professional learning journey with AET.

Lifestyle:

We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.

Money:

All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme).  Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our AET Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.

Wellbeing:

We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.

OUR TRUST

We are proud to be part of Academies Enterprise Trust (AET).

AET is a national family of 57 schools committed to delivering an excellent education that launches all the children in our care into a remarkable life. It is our deeply held belief that every child has something remarkable to offer and we see it as our duty to help each and every child find this within themselves.

Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

At AET, we want all of our employees to feel included bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, and we truly believe that diversity drives innovation.

AET is also an approved Apprenticeship Training Provider (through the ESFA) which allows us to deliver a wide range of apprenticeship programmes across the Trust and our school network. To find out more about what we offer click here.

We also offer teacher training programmes across our network. For more information please click here.

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