EYFS Phase Leader and Early Reading Lead

We are excited to be searching for an experienced, enthusiastic and outstanding Early Years Lead Teacher, to lead our Early Years team. We are seeking to find a superb, highly motivated classroom teacher and leader with a passion for providing children with high quality, interactive and memorable learning experiences. The successful candidate will have class responsibility and leadership time to further develop our EYFS Phase and lead in Early reading in EYFS and KS1. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, they will play an active role in school improvement and work with us in our continual drive to provide our children with the best education possible.

Work with us in our relentless pursuit for excellence, sharing in our mission to make every day count for the children within our school. We are looking for a passionate practitioner who will work with the team to ensure that every child has the opportunity to reach their potential. 

As Phase leader you will be integral to the leadership and management of the school. You will form a key part of the Senior Leadership Team, contributing to strategic decision making and driving improvement across the school. The role is crucial in supporting the Head Teacher in delivering the vision for the school, ensuring consistency and be the custodian of the school’s ethos. Your role will involve oversight of a phase of the school, ensuring implementation, consistency and role modelling excellent practice.

At the heart of Ernehale FHA are our ABC values, which underpin our curriculum, ensuring that all children become aspirant, independent and lifelong learners, who have empathy towards one another and are prepared to take risks in their learning. We believe children learn best when they feel happy, valued and confident, irrespective of their ability or disability, social background, culture or gender.

Ernehale Flying High Academies, is part of The Flying High Partnership. Flying High Partnership is a growing partnership of 31 schools across north and south Nottinghamshire, Nottingham City and Derbyshire. The Trust aims to deliver sustainable school improvement; schools joining the Trust do so with the prime aim of improving each other so that they can all become exceptional schools at the heart of their communities. 

Working together, relentless in our pursuit of excellence to create the best schools in the universe!

As a large Multi Academy Trust we are recognised as one of the highest performing primary Trusts regionally and nationally and have had significant success in deliver rapid and sustained improvement. A significant part of this success is due to our commitment to a professional continuum, growing and developing the potential of staff across the schools. As Phase Leaders, we will invest in you, enabling you to fulfill your career ambitions embedding yourself as a school leader and when the time is right, enabling further progression onto Deputy Headship and beyond.  

Look forward with confidence!

We can offer you:

•  A fantastic working environment, in a team that works together for the benefit of children in our school
•  Lovely children who will make you smile every day!
•  Significant support from your Head Teacher and Senior Leaders
•  A Trust committed to your professional development, enabling you to become a highly effective Deputy Head Teacher and ultimately develop to become a Head teacher. 
•  Access to our ‘Flying Forward to Deputy Headship’ programme, to include coaching, mentoring and targeted CPL, at an appropriate time in your development. 
•  A partnership with relationships at its heart, ensuring a friendly atmosphere encompassing a supportive ethos.
•  High quality support via our Education team including the opportunity to work alongside our team of Lead Practitioners. 
•  A Trust with an established track record of high-quality education and experience of leading rapid school improvement.
•  Significant professional development opportunities provided through our Flying High Futures, enabling access to national programmes including NPQs through our Teaching School Hub, bespoke Trust CPL and support via our English Hub, Behaviour Hub and our involvement in a Maths Hub.  
•  Access to training resources through The National College

We are looking for someone who is: 

•  A great sense of humour!
•  Be an excellent class teacher, with a proven track record of moving children on in their learning and achieving good outcomes for all across the whole curriculum
•  Has a passion for teaching in Early Years, a sound knowledge of the Early Years foundation Stage curriculum and embraces this exciting curriculum
•  A passion to develop early reading, in a school which has already achieved recognition for being in the top 4% of the country for our phonics screening check results. 
•  Unshakable in their commitment to put children first.
•  A relentless focus on delivering the highest outcomes for all children.
•  Someone who forms excellent relationships with children, parents/ carers and staff. 
•  Able to inspire and motivate others.
•  Ability to support and develop others. 
•  A passion and drive to succeed.
•  Committed to professional learning with a determination to grow, reflect, develop and learn. 
•  Willing to roll up their sleeves up and ‘get stuck in’.
•  Able to share and learn from best practice whilst knowing how to utilise the partnership opportunities we have within the Multi Academy Trust and Teaching School. 

If this is you, please get in touch! We wish you all the very best for your application.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and actively encouraged (as you can probably tell we are extremely proud of our children and school). By visiting the school prior to applying, you will get a real feel for the place and be able to ask further questions, so please do phone for an appointment 0115 9568008. https://www.flyinghighpartnership.co.uk/careers/

Closing Date: 9am Friday 19th April 2024
Interview: Week beginning 22nd April 2024