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Primary Lead

Job details
Posting date: 23 April 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 09 May 2025
Location: Redruth, TR16 6ND
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: ca0050ee-6497-4651-b79c-3a0ca4ebe1c6

Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Nine Maidens AP Academy is seeking a dedicated and dynamic Primary Teacher with Primary Lead responsibilities to join our Senior Leadership Team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the Primary Department on our journey of school improvement. The successful candidate will teach a small class and lead our Primary department, ensuring the highest standards of education and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership:Take lead responsibility for the primary provision under the direction of the principal.
• Standards:Lead and raise the standards of all areas of primary education.
• Curriculum Implementation:Oversee the implementation of the curriculum and teaching and learning across the primary department.
• Collaboration:Work collaboratively with primary staff and the leadership team to ensure cohesive and effective educational practices.

Qualifications:

• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Proven experience in primary education
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Commitment to school improvement and raising educational standards

What the school offers its staff

Health & Wellbeing

Pension

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free Parking

Further details about the role

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

We Aim To

• Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
• Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
• We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
• Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
• Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and we may carry out an online check.