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Primary Family Worker

Primary Family Worker

Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park

Southwark

Salary:
SCP 17 – 21 (Inner London) £28,245 - £30,333 FTE (Pro rata £24,263 - £26,057) + Harris Benefits
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
Immediate Start
Apply by:
20 September 2019

Job overview

We are looking to appoint a Primary Family Worker to work across the Harris Academy Peckham sites, Peckham Park and Free School Peckham. The two academies are run by an Executive Principal and located within close proximity of each other. The successful applicant will spend time at both sites on a regular basis and will work with both academy senior leadership teams and academy staff. Applicants must be willing to travel between the two academies.

Your opportunity

As part of Harris, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education in London. With regular progression opportunities and outstanding CPD for support staff, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career, whether at Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park, in one of our other 46 academies, or in our central team. Our aim is to help you achieve your ambitions more quickly.

What we are looking for

We look for an experienced and talented individual who wants to be a part of transforming education in London, and helping create exceptional places of learning.

Please download the job pack for a full job description and person specification.

Our academies

Harris Primary Free School Peckham opened in 2012 to meet the demand for high quality primary school places in Southwark, and now educates children from Reception to Year 6. We have a superb team of teachers and support staff, all of whom are experts in primary education. We are an academy that values and invests in staff, excellent training, development, and planned career progression. We are a team of ordinary individuals who genuinely enjoy working together to create extraordinary outcomes, and we have an opportunity for you to join us.

Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park is a primary academy for local children. Our belief is that children thrive when they are consistently happy and safe at school. Whatever a child’s background or starting point, we want to make sure that they finish Year 6 with the academic skills, social skills and knowledge necessary to succeed. Every lesson at our school is creative and there is plenty of time for children to think, to play, to discover and wonder. In addition, from the age of 3, parents have the option to start their children in Harris Peckham Park Nursery.

Come and see us in action! Visits to Harris Primary Free School Peckham are strongly encouraged and very welcome. Please call 020 7394 5700 to arrange a time to come in or an informal conversation.

Harris Benefits

As part of the Harris Federation, we can offer you a range of benefits, including:

  • The opportunity to develop and grow your career within the Federation.
  • Performance and loyalty bonus
  • Pension scheme (LGPS) and access to our Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan, covering a range of health and wellbeing benefits
  • Bicycle Purchase and ICT loans

Click here for a full list of Harris benefits. 

The Harris Federation

Our academy is part of the Harris Federation, the leading large Multi Academy Trust in the country for both primary and secondary education. Harris has an unrivalled track record in raising standards and achieving success for the children in our academies.

Professional development and sharing best practice are a key part of the Harris Federation success, and we can draw on this to offer you top quality training at every stage of your career path, from Beginner Teacher to Middle Leader. We will invest in you with coaching, mentoring, and can offer a wide range of training programmes, delivered by our Teaching School Alliance.

We look for talented teachers who are passionate about their subject and making a difference. You can help us transform education in London, and create exceptional places of learning.

Please note: academies may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and this job may be withdrawn at any point without notice. You will still be able to add information until the closing date, but you will not be able to submit your application. With this in mind, you are encouraged to apply as early as possible.

Harris academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. In line with our commitments to safeguarding, the Harris Federation uses preferred agencies and is unable to work with any agencies where Terms of Business have not been agreed by both parties prior to an engagement. Harris Federation is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education. Click here to view our full equality and diversity statement. 

Attached documents

About Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park

School summary

Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park opened in September 2011 in the heart of Peckham. Children can start our Academy in the nursery when they are 3 years old and they leave after Year Six, when they are 11. Our Academy is an exciting place to learn and our pupils work hard and behave well. Our specialism is Literacy and Communication and we believe that learning to read, write and communicate effectively is extremely important. In 2011 97% of our children achieved a L4 in English at the end of Year 6. 100% of children made two national curriculum levels of progress in English.

Academy Ethos

At Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park we have high aspirations and ambitions for our children and there is a driving determination to ensure that all pupils and adults reach their full potential.

Our Academy aims to:

  • Ensure that we inspire in all pupils, a love of learning and the desire to continue to learn;
  • Ensure that all pupils have an equal opportunity to take part in the life and work of the Academy and the wider community;
  • Provide a safe, welcoming and stimulating environment where children enjoy learning and playing;
  • Provide a rich, balanced and varied curriculum;
  • Provide high standards of teaching in all subjects;
  • Equip all pupils with the learning habits and self-confidence necessary to constructively influence their own lives;
  • Enable pupils to learn from each other;
  • Promote creativity and independence;
  • Develop learning skills by encouraging a sense of curiosity, open-mindedness, perseverance, objectivity, reflection and critical thinking;
  • Nurture pupil diversity emphasising individual talents in a wide range of fields;
  • Develop values and opinions within the context of mutual respect and understanding of differing belief systems and cultures within our community;
  • Be a place that every child remembers with affection.

We highly value:

  • The way in which all children are unique;
  • A working partnership with parents and families;
  • The spiritual and moral development of each pupil, as well as their intellectual and physical growth;
  • The importance of each person in our community; and
  • Our environment.

Academy Specialisms

Literacy and Communication 

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