Trust:  DNEAT

Academy Name:  Lyng Church of England Primary Academy

Vacancy Job Title: Lead Teacher / Teacher in Charge

Pay Scale: MPS-UPS (Not suitable for ECT)

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Start Date: 1 September 2024

Lyng CE Primary School joined Thomas Bullock Primary School as part of the Nightingale Federation from September 2023.  The role to work in our Federation, based at Lyng Primary, which has four classes from Reception to Year 6 and is a good school Ofsted, 2017.  As a member of DNEAT, we are greatly supported by our Trust, a strong governing body across the federation and our wonderful community.

If you are enthusiastic, kind, positive, optimistic and hard-working, have high expectations of pupils and are adaptable, then we are looking for you.  We welcome applications from outstanding practitioners.

Purpose of role:

• To deputise for the Executive Deputy Headteacher and Executive Headteacher when they are not on the academy site, in order to secure the safe and successful operation of the academy
• Model excellence and high aspirations by example at all times
• To develop and maintain strong links and compassionate communication with the wider community, parents, peers and the Executive Leadership Team, to sustain their involvement in all aspects of learning at the academy.

Leadership & Management

• To ensure DNEAT and the academy’s values and vision are clearly articulated, understood and become embedded in everyday work and practice.
• Demonstrates a positive and proactive approach to challenges as they arise.
• Take the lead role in implementing agreed aspects of the academy improvement plan.
• Communicate well with all stakeholders to secure further success in the academy.
• Contribute towards promoting the Christian ethos of the academy
• Ensure the smooth day-to-day organisation and operation of the academy
• Be a Designated Professional for Safeguarding in Education in the academy, alongside the Executive Headteacher.
• Report to the Executive Headteacher regularly and attend governor meetings when required

Teaching & Learning

• Excellent and experienced KS2 practitioner
• Carry out the duties of a schoolteacher as set out in School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document 2014 (or as updated or amended in the future) and Teacher Standards {2012}. This includes any duties as may be reasonably directed by the Executive Headteacher
• Be an outstanding practitioner and role model for learning & teaching
• Puts the pupils at the heart of everything they do
• Understands the importance of ‘find the gap, plug the gap’ so that pupils have improved opportunities
• Successful experience of teaching more than one year group or Key Stage.
• Experience of catering for children with SEND within the classroom and/or running PiXL Therapies. Potential candidates would benefit from experience in using the PiXL approach.
• Support the Headteacher in holding staff to account for the progress of pupils
• Establish creative approaches to learning & teaching across the curriculum
• Alongside all staff in the school, be pro-actively involved in working as part of a team to develop areas of provision that impact positively on learning and teaching across the school
• Establish a culture of ‘open classroom’ as a basis for sharing best practice within and between academies in the federation and across DNEAT
• Create an ethos within which all staff are motivated and supported to develop their own skills and subject knowledge and to support one another
• Experience of excellence in teaching and/or leading English is desirable and/or an interest in becoming a KS2 moderator or experience of moderating

Managing systems

• Recording and reporting assessment through systems
• Implement strategies which ensure the highest standards of behaviour and attendance
• Plans appropriate opportunities to work in partnership with teaching assistants to meet the needs of the children
• Provide a safe, calm and well-ordered environment for all pupils and staff; focused on safeguarding pupils as well as the health and safety of everyone on the academy s
• Develop effective relationships with fellow professionals and other colleagues in other public services to improve academic and social outcomes for all pupils
• Understanding and use of PiXL assessment

We can offer:

• Happy, enthusiastic pupils with excellent learning behaviours
• Excellent DNEAT trust support and professional development opportunities.
• Supportive and substantial CPD and training
• An opportunity to shine
• Excellent resources, space and facilities
• An outdoor wildlife learning area
• A supportive and friendly team
• Clear systems and structures for teaching and learning to support curriculum planning
• Dedicated management time