Vacancies

Group Lead, St Leonard's CofE Primary School

Contract Term: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: MPS2 – UPS

Anticipated Start Date: September 2021

Pupils on roll: 592

 

St Leonard's C of E Primary School is seeking to appoint a Y1 or Y2 Year Group Leader to support the wider senior leadership team. This is a brand new, exciting opportunity due to a restructure, for the right candidates to make a difference to the provision and development of three classes, one of which they will teach in themselves. If you are motivated about developing the curriculum, raising standards and providing stimulating learning experiences for young minds, we want to hear from you! This role would also include leading the development of a whole-school subject.

 

St Leonard’s can promise you a newly established, dynamic and passionate core leadership team who are enthusiastic about driving change and raising standards. You will have the opportunity to work alongside us and make a real difference in our community.  This is an exciting role to help shape and lead the future innovation and development of the school going forward.

 

We offer:

• A welcoming, friendly school with a strong Christian ethos and set of values that underpin all that we do.

• Children who are articulate, happy and motivated to learn.

• The opportunity to work in a school with unique spacious grounds close to the city centre.

• A new headteacher who puts children at the heart of all decision making.

• An exciting role within our growing organisation with opportunities for future career development within our own school and across our family of 17 schools within the St Christopher’s Trust.

 

The successful candidate will:

• Have leadership skills that will enable staff to flourish and pupils to reach their potential underpinned by a strong personal philosophy and clear pedagogical subject knowledge.

• Be happy to support the Church of England ethos of our school though our school values.

• Be dedicated to raising standards and removing barriers to learning for pupils with the ability to challenge each pupil from whatever their starting point.

• Have high expectations of themselves and pupils with a positive, can do and proactive nature.

 

Visits to the school are encouraged; please contact the school on 01392 666570 if you wish to make arrangements

 

To apply please visit the academy website: www.stchristophersmat.org for an application form, which should be returned by email to HR@stcmat.org by 9:00am on Monday 26 April. Interviews will take place on Tuesday 30^th April.

 

Successfully shortlisted candidates will be asked to send in a virtual tour of their current class and to teach on the interview day at St Leonard’s.

 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful candidates. Candidates are encouraged to read our Safeguarding policy before applying. 

 

School Operations Lead x3

Based at St Matthews Plymouth, St Leonard’s Exeter and Devon/Torbay

Full time, Permanent, 52 weeks a year (Flexible to a minimum of 42 weeks for the right candidate.  

£33,782 - £36,922 per annum, St Christopher’s Grade 9 NJC Points 30 – 33

 

We are looking to appoint three dynamic and highly motivated individuals to join our team as ‘School Operations Leads’. Located at either Exeter, Plymouth or Torbay you will be the vital link between school administration and the Trust leadership team, enabling our schools to work in a connected way with our centralised finance, HR, and estates teams.  

 

The successful candidates will:

• Be strategic, focused and values driven

• Understand the importance of good communication and customer service

• Attend to and take pride in the look and feel of the school for visitors, staff and pupils alike

• Be skilled in business administration

• Be entrepreneurially minded in finding additional revenue streams for our schools

• Work flexibly in order to ensure the smooth running of the extended school services

• Enable schools to meet the needs of diverse communities

 

The Trust can offer:

• A supportive and collaborative community

• In house expertise to draw on

• A commitment to your professional development

• An opportunity to shape the role whilst impacting positively on school administration

 

Please visit www.stchristophersmat.org for more information and an application form, which should be returned by email to HR@stcmat.org by 6 April 2021 9am

 

Please hold the following dates to be available for interview: April - Tuesday 20^th, Friday 23^rd, and Friday 30^th

 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful candidates. Candidates are encouraged to read our Safeguarding policy before applying.