Key Stage 2 Phase Leader and Class Teacher

About this Role

At Meadow Park Academy we encourage our pupils to be creative, take risks and build character in order to maximise achievement in all areas. In doing so they develop a lifelong love of learning through nurture and adventure, as well as the resilience to follow their own paths and contribute to our communities as responsible global citizens.

Our aim is, and will always be, to help our children to achieve their maximum potential. We believe that the primary school days should be one of the most exciting periods of anybody's life, and our teachers deliver an engaging curriculum to ensure that a love for learning is embraced and sustained.

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Phase Leader and Class Teacher for KS2, who shares the ethos of our school and is committed to supporting us in delivering exceptional education to the community we serve. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated and have a growing understanding of how children learn. Above all, you must care deeply about our children and want to help them achieve their best, across the whole curriculum and beyond.

Our school is proud to be part of Anthem Schools Trust, who together create ambitious and successful schools where every child thrives. Through the Trust, we provide high-quality professional development, coaching and leadership opportunities. This includes a number of specialist Trust-wide roles that offer talented teachers and leaders the opportunity to develop in their career and make an even bigger difference to children and young people.

Our team is proud to be part of Anthem Schools Trust, who together create ambitious and successful schools where every child thrives. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

- To provide effective leadership and management of a specific phase of educational provision

- To ensure high levels of achievement for all students in the phase

- Responsible for the work, administration and development of the phase

Rewards and Benefits 

• Membership of Teachers Pension Scheme 
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme - offering free confidential support on a range of issues such as work, wellbeing, money, health and legal advice 
• Cycle to Work Scheme 
• The Anthem Institute 
• Access to Health Shield Health Cash Plan

Please note that we reserve the right to close the recruitment campaign earlier than this date subject to the volume of applications received. Interviews will be arranged upon receipt of applications. We therefore encourage candidates to submit applications as early as possible.

If you feel you have the skills and experience to support the pupils at Meadow Park, we would be delighted to hear from you. We welcome visits to the school and are sure you will experience our nurturing, welcoming atmosphere to get a taste of how rewarding your work will be.

Please contact David Phillips at the school to arrange a visit or further discussion at dphillips@anthemtrust.uk or telephone 0118 9375562

Further information can be found in the job description and person specification at the Meadow Park Career Site. Click here

Please note application should be made through the Meadow Park Career Site, we do not accept CVs.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

Anthem will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.