We are passionate about ensuring our Early Careers Teachers receive an excellent induction, providing the tools and resources to become an exceptional teacher. We have dedicated ECT mentors, training, development, and cross-Trust events to support you as you start on this exciting journey.

About Buckton Fields: 

Buckton Fields joined the Preston Hedges Trust as a brand new, two form entry school in September 2021. Proud of our exceptionally strong links with the community, and with the school’s brilliant neighbouring businesses, these strong links enrich and complement our creative curriculum and core values.

Surrounded by beautiful countryside, we enjoy studying natural beauty at Buckton, not only on our doorstep, but also more broadly as conscious citizens with a love for the world we live in.  Our focus is on celebrating every child as an individual; inspiring children to be passionate, empathetic and resilient in everything they do. We are committed to the wellbeing of our children and are determined that every child has their best possible start to school life, experiences an outstanding curriculum, reaches their full potential, and grows to be a happy, confident, well-rounded individual.

About the Role:

We can offer amazing children who love to learn; supportive parents, and an incredible staff ‘family’ who enjoy a bit of fun and make sure that they look out for each other. Our school is a very dynamic and happy place to learn and work in! We are currently based out of a bespoke building on the Buckton Fields site, and have some fabulous spaces – including a state-of-the-art innovation suite!

Your role will be to ensure that the children you work with are happy, safe, and engaged with creative and innovative learning opportunities. You will support and enable them to reach their full potential socially, emotionally, physically and academically, building confident and resilient young people. 

The successful candidates will be excited to master and implement our unique curriculum, to understand our approach to learning, teaching and pedagogy and to work collaboratively with colleagues who are passionate about providing all our children with the best learning experiences possible.

At the heart of our success in delivering the region’s highest standards of education is the Trust-wide commitment to organisational values – One Team, Ambition, Drive and Excellence. People are truly at the heart of all that we do, operating as one team across all areas of the Trust, we have a collective passion to make all our schools excellent. 

As a Trust, we deliver exceptional CPD for our ECTs. We have a Trust ECT group where you can meet and collaborate with other ECTs across the Trust schools; you have opportunities to observe teaching from specialists across the Trust; and our highly experienced mentors and our Trust-led ECT development program will be able to provide individualised support to enable you to be the best teacher you can be.

Further through your career, we have outstanding promotion opportunities across our schools for highly effective and ambitious practitioners. Many of our current Assistant Principals and Principals started their career as an NQT in the Trust, so we really do build and develop from within.

We strongly believe in work/life balance thus we avoid giving unnecessary teacher overload: we keep paperwork to a minimum, collaborate as a Trust to reduce planning burdens, ensure staff meetings are kept to a reasonable length, and our staff wellbeing is as important to us as pupil wellbeing.

If you are passionate about teaching and committed to providing creative learning experiences, we would love to hear from you!

We would strongly encourage you to visit our school to see our happy atmosphere and creativity in action - we are very proud of our thriving learning environment and superb children!

If you would like a tour and to find out more, please e-mail lisa.cogings@buckton.school or phone the school on 01604 931030.

About the Trust: 

Preston Hedges Trust offers the absolute best opportunities to all our children in each of our schools. Our highly skilled, energetic, and creative teaching staff make sure we constantly drive forward standards and deliver continuous improvement across all our schools – regardless of where they are on their individual journeys.  In 2023, the Trust collected two prestigious national education awards – including being named the country’s best Academy Trust – recognising our exceptional work in outstanding, good, new, and improving schools. We were awarded Best Small Trust and the blue ribband Best Multi Academy Trust awards at the Multi Academy Trust Association Awards in London in March 2023. 

At the heart of our success in delivering the region’s highest standards of education is the Trust-wide commitment to organisational values – One Team, Ambition, Drive and Excellence. People are truly at the heart of all that we do, operating as one team across all areas of the Trust, we have a collective passion to make all our schools excellent. 

What we can offer: 

• A comprehensive induction programme at both Trust and school levels 
• An opportunity to learn from others at schools rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted 
• A broad range of continuous professional development at both Trust and school levels, including access to the National College online training platform 
• Opportunities to progress your career through increased responsibilities or specialism, enabling you to make a difference to children beyond your immediate class, year group or school 
• An environment that places wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, with staff having access to a comprehensive wellbeing package including the Schools Advisory Service, which offers counselling, GP helpline, mindfulness, nurse support, physiotherapy and more.     
• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme

Preston Hedges Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children. All appointments are subject to successful Disclosure and Barring clearance and any other necessary safeguarding checks, satisfactory references and medical clearance. Please be advised that as per KCSIE 2024 all shortlisted candidates will be subject to online checks.

Our Trust Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy can be viewed using the following link:

https://prestonhedgestrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Safeguarding-Child-Protection-Policy-2024.pdf

Please also be advised we will take up references prior to interview and that one referee must be your last employer. The school provides equal opportunities to all. We are equally committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity.

We aim for our workforce to be representative of society and that each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We are committed to providing equality and fairness in our recruitment and employment practices and not to discriminate on any grounds. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.