Posted on 10 February 2023
- Salary £28,000-£43,685 (TMS-UPS)
- Contract Permanent
- Closing Date Apply by 5 March 2023
St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Brighton
Class Teacher, Phase Leader and member of the Leadership team
Salary Scale: Teachers Mainscale/UPS range
Responsible to: Head Teacher
Responsible for: Reception & KS1 teaching team & effectiveness of provision
Line managed by: Head Teacher
Full Time to start September 2023
The Governors of this welcoming and friendly Catholic school are seeking to appoint an excellent, inspirational teacher to join our team.
The successful candidate must have the ability to support and work with the Headteacher and SLT in all aspects of school improvement with key responsibility to develop and sustain effective practice in Reception & Key Stage 1.
This post includes a class based teaching role in Early Years Foundation Stage
- Provide leadership to an EY/KS1 team, provide support, and hold team members to account within the phase.
- Regularly monitor the quality of teaching, learning and assessment.
- Know own, and KS1 data, in order to ensure appropriate support and interventions are put in place, adults are effectively deployed and all children make progress.
- Undertake line management and appraisal of staff as required.
- Ensure communication is effective across the team and with parents and build positive professional working relationships.
- Have a clear overview of year group planning (long, medium and short term).
- Ensure arrangements for phonics screening and KS1 SATS are managed effectively, within timescales and that all relevant staff are aware of their roles and responsibilities.
- Write an annual action plan to address issues arising from individual year group data.
- Ensure data, as required, from all classes in the phase group is uploaded onto school systems when requested.
- Provide pastoral and professional support / advice to all year group members. Attend weekly Senior Management Team meetings and fortnightly key stage meetings and feedback to team as appropriate.
- Attend weekly Senior Management Team meetings
- Feedback to senior leadership appropriate information or concerns.
- Ensure smooth transition between year groups / phases and when pupils transfer to KS2
- Trips / visits / visitors etc. and undertake risk assessments as required.
- Oversee any behavioural issues that may occur within the phase group.
- Liaise with phase group parents and lead / plan meetings as required.
- Ensure agreed policy is exemplified in your class and that good teaching and learning is modelled.
- Uphold schools aims / ethos / vision.
- Ensure PPA time is used effectively.
- Lead regular meetings of the phase group and plan minutes/arrange for minutes to be taken.
- Co-ordinate termly action research projects.
- Provide coaching support to staff where needed and provide constructive feedback.
- Undertake subject leadership responsibility.
- Support new members of staff
- Mentor students / ECTs as required.
- Lead some CPD and inset as needed.
GENERAL
The list of duties in the job description should not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. There will be other duties and requirements associated with your job and, in addition, as a term of your employment you may be required to undertake various other duties as may reasonably be required. This must be read in addition to the Teacher Job Description & Person Specification.
Your duties will be as set out in the above job description but please note that the Council reserves the right to update your job description, from time to time, to reflect changes in, or to, your job. You will be consulted about any proposed changes.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
JOB TITLE: Phase Leader
DEPARTMENT: Education
SCHOOL: St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
You will have experience of:
- Teaching across the primary phase
- Talking to / managing large groups of parents / children / staff and forming good relationships
- Liaising with other phase groups and managing transfers and transitions
- Mentoring students / ECTs
- Supporting others to improve their practice
- Planning and developing an effective and exciting curriculum
- Writing action plans and evaluating their impact / effectiveness
- Writing letters / documents / papers for a range of purposes /audiences
- Successful subject leadership, including budget management
- Arranging school visits / trips and undertaking risk assessments as needed
- Managing difficult behaviour and supporting other staff to develop the skills needed to ensure good behaviour at all times
- Being involved in, and leading, action research projects and using the outcomes to bring about change
- Leading CPD / training and a commitment to lifelong learning
- Commitment to child protection / safeguarding
- Ability to manage and organise classes to create an outstanding learning environment
- Excellent understanding of data and ability to evaluate data to raise standards for all children
- Understanding the importance of ‘Achievement for Learning’ and ‘Learning to Learn’ approaches in ensuring all children are inspired and engaged in learning
- Knowledge of how to assess children’s attainment and use this in planning
- High expectations of achievement, behaviour and citizenship and evidence of success in these areas
- Experience of leading a curriculum area
And detailed knowledge of:
- The National Curriculum for all Primary Key Stages
- What constitutes good and outstanding teaching and learning
- And you will obviously have qualified teacher status
And you can demonstrate the ability to:
- Monitor the quality of teaching and learning and use the outcomes to plan actions aimed at bringing about further improvements
- Line manage staff and undertake robust performance management
- Be creative in your approach to teaching and learning
- Communicate clearly and effectively and have excellent interpersonal skills
- Differentiate the curriculum appropriately for all children to ensure effective provision for a range of abilities
- Build productive teams
- Work within tight timescales
- Challenge staff, where necessary
- Evidence of Good/Outstanding classroom practice
And you will be:
- Efficient and well organised
- Ambitious
- An effective and productive team member
- Positive, bringing boundless enthusiasm, energy and ideas for learning to the team
- Ideally, a practising Catholic or is fully committed to supporting the ethos of our Catholic School and, who will play a full part in promoting the Catholic mission of the school.
We can offer:
- A happy, dedicated staff team who work tirelessly for the children of St Joseph’s
- A small, friendly school with beautifully behaved pupils
- A spacious and well-resourced working environment.
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
For full details and an application form, please contact the school office on 01273 556607 or by email to [email protected]. Details can also be found on our school website. Visits to the school are warmly welcomed.
Please ensure that you are using the Catholic Education Service application form. We cannot accept applications completed using the B&H form.
Closing date: 5th March 2023
Shortlisting: 6th March 2023
Interview date: To be confirmed
Completed application forms accepted by email/post direct to the school address:
Davey Drive, Brighton, BN1 7BF, [email protected]
School Office: 01273 556607
Website: http://www.st-josephs.brighton-hove.gov.uk
Work Permits: This role does not meet the requirement for UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Points-based Immigration System. Successful candidates will need to evidence that they have the Right to Work in the UK.
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
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The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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