This role is to start from February 2025

Suitable for ECTs: Yes

Salary: Main Pay Scale

Who we are seeking

Are you someone who shares our core values, relishes collaboration, and who wants to create places of learning that are truly remarkable?

A wonderful opportunity has arisen at Blackfield Primary School - a place where we 'Make Learning Irresistible'. - high 'expectations, aspirations, mutual trust and respect are all underpinned by a warm, nurturing ethos.

What's special about our Trust?

At Inspire Learning Partnership, we believe that people are the key to delivering exceptional education for every child. Yes, there are some perks to working in our Trust, but we feel that the most significant one, is that we provide you with an environment where you can do your best work, be listened to, involved and valued. Our people strategy is at the heart of our work across the Trust. 

The successful applicant will be warmly welcomed into our Trust partnership and able to access a myriad of opportunities and experiences that will support personal and professional growth. We are research led and psychological safety is an important feature of the approach that we take to staff development and growth within our Trust.

What we can offer you: 

• The opportunity to work in settings which benefit from being part of a multi-academy trust that is large enough to effectively support schools but small enough to know and care for them individually, and the people who work and learn within them, well. We take staff wellbeing seriously.
• A competitive salary and longer school holidays than maintained schools, including a two- week October half-term break
• A variety of career pathways and bespoke professional development, including a thorough and tailored induction, performance development with a linked Line Manager, network groups, face to face and e-learning. We invest in people
• Supportive colleagues who are committed to the #oneteam ethos.
• Opportunities to observe and ask questions of colleagues and to ‘give things a try’. We encourage innovation, research, bravery and development
• Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Recognition of continuous service with Local Authorities and other Academy Trusts
• CEO Awards to recognise those amazing everyday achievements
• Eligibility for a Blue Light Card, cycle to work scheme and ongoing discount offers at Halfords and Tredz
• Electric car charging facilty
• The ability to be the change within the community that you will work in

Our community would like a teacher who:

• Exhibits their commitment to maintaining a robust culture of safeguarding
• Demonstrates an affinity with our vision and values
• Is passionate about learning
• Is interested in a research approach, including experimentation and sharing
• Believes that improvement is always possible
• Shows enthusiasm, drive and commitment
• Has the ability to build effective working relationships with pupils and adults
• Has the skills and expertise to understand the needs of all pupils

Has this role got your name on it?

If you have any further questions or would like to arrange a tour of the base setting, please contact the school directly:   info.bps@ilpartnership.org, 

Early application is encouraged as we anticipate significant interest and therefore reserve the right to interview exceptional candidates prior to the closing date.

Our commitment to safeguarding

Inspire Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

An enhanced DBS check is required for all roles in regulated activity. The specific safeguarding responsibilities of this role are outlined within Part One of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024.

Further details concerning our safeguarding policies and procedures, including our statement on the Rehabilitation of Offenders, can be found on the Trust website.

As part of our due diligence and in line with the recommendation made in Keeping Children Safe in Education, the Trust reserves the right to undertake online searches on shortlisted candidates. Further details about our searches can be found within our Recruitment Policy.