Lead Practitioner for Key Stage 1 and Early Reading

Lead Practitioner for Key Stage 1 and Early Reading

Part Time: 0.6-0.8 FTE

Main Pay Range/UPS

This position is part of an established Rapid Improvement Team and will play a key role in helping to shape school improvement within the Trust.  The teachers will be expected to have a high impact across a number of our academies. They will work flexibly across the Trust to meet identified and changing needs and to ensure rapid improvement in the quality of teaching and learning and the Early Reading Strategy and Key Stage 1 practice.

Our ideal candidates will be consistently good/outstanding primary teachers with experience of working with at least one of the end of key stage classes (EYFS, Year 2). We are particularly keen to hear from teachers who are passionate about teaching and learning and making a difference to each child. We would welcome applications from teachers who choose not to work full time at this stage in their personal and professional lives. However you must be highly committed to teaching, relish a challenge and want to continue to develop your skills to make a significant contribution to the progress and development of children. 

We offer:

• A strong supportive network of schools
• Access to high quality CPD within the Trust and with partners
• Opportunity to work in a range of contexts and localities
• Opportunity to work flexibly

 In return we expect you to:

• Play a full part in school life eg staff meetings
• Attend inset days
• Provide after school interventions where required

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 16000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 16 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children

We Believe: 

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
•  Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Angela O’Brien on aobrien@satrust.com 

Applications for this post must be submitted on our online application form, which can be found at http://satrust.com/vacancies or by clicking the “apply now” link.  

Our adverts do sometimes close early, even where there’s a published deadline – and so if you’re keen, please apply as soon as practically possible.

Closing date for applications 8am Tuesday 19th October 2021

Interviews will take place on Thursday 21st  October 2021

In line with safer recruitment policies references will be called for prior to interview.

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.