- Job Title
- Phase Leader
- Job Start Date
- 28 April 2025
- Salary Range
- MPR to UPR with TLR2 £3391.00
- Hours Per Week
- Full Time
- School Address
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Whitehouse Common Primary School
Cotysmore Road
Sutton Coldfield
B75 6BL
- Contact Email
- h.dodd@whitehousecommon.bham.sch.uk
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 10 January 2025, 9:00am
- Job Information
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Are you looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to further your career? Are you looking to develop your leadership skills in a friendly, forward thinking and highly supportive school?
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding and inspirational Phase Leader from Easter 2025. This position is likely to be for KS1 Phase Leader from September 2025 but this will depend on potential applicants.
At Whitehouse Common Primary School we adopt a nurturing and family approach to learning and to school life. You will join a team of dedicated staff, in a happy and encouraging working environment with a family atmosphere, where the philosophy is that every child matters.
We are looking for someone who:
- has outstanding expectations and ambitions for each and every child across the ability range
- is an excellent classroom practitioner who expects and enforces high standards for learning and behaviour
- demonstrates the potential and desire to make a positive impact
- has experience of, and an interest in, successfully developing themselves as a professional and as a leader whilst also developing and supporting their colleagues
- is a strong communicator with accomplished inter-personal skills
- is innovative, enthusiastic and can bring fresh ideas and impetus to our school
- is organised, highly motivated, hard-working and willing to ‘go the extra mile’
In return our school has many things to offer including:
- yhe benefit of a strong leadership team and staff who will be committed to supporting you and enabling you to reach yours and the school’s goals
- a warm and welcoming working environment as part of our ‘Whitehouse Common family’ community
- the chance to teach our enthusiastic and happy children who love to learn
- excellent professional development opportunities including working alongside colleagues from the Learning Trust for Excellence (LTE) and the ability to raise your profile across our Trust
- an enabling working environment, with regular non-contact time, to help you successfully execute your leadership responsibilities
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How to apply:
A copy of the application form, job description and person specification is available on the school website.
Visits to the school are welcome on Tuesday 17 December at 4pm. - Safeguarding
- This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
- enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
- References
- All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
- Short-listed candidates
- An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
- Rehabilitation of Offenders
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
- Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
- Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
- How to submit your application
- Please note that offline application forms will not be considered - please submit an online application via the link above.