Job Advert: Class Teacher

Salary: MPS1-UPS3 (also suitable for ECT’s)

Hours: Whole time, 32.44 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent from September 2024

Location: Stocksfield Avenue Primary School, St Cuthberts Road, Fenham, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE5 2DQ

At Smart Multi Academy Trust we provide a high quality, bespoke education full of the best opportunities and experiences to help every child learn, be happy and ultimately successful in life.

We are a family of 8 primary schools in Newcastle upon Tyne who have formed a Multi Academy Trust because we share a collective vision for excellence in education. We believe passionately that the children within our communities deserve nothing less than the very best of opportunities and experiences to become successful citizens and lifelong learners able to lead happy, fulfilling and healthy lives. We live by our vision and values every day in all aspects of what we do and its important anyone joining the Trust does as well.

Stocksfield Avenue Primary School is a popular and oversubscribed two-form entry school in the west end of Newcastle. The school benefits from excellent facilities such as music provision and extensive school grounds. The school was rated as ‘good’ in the latest Ofsted inspection 2019. This is an exciting opportunity in a successful and happy school in the heart of a vibrant and diverse community.

Smart are recruiting for a Class Teacher at Stocksfield Avenue Primary School

The role will involve responsibility for teaching a class.

The expectations of our teachers at Stocksfield Avenue include:

· Treating everyone with respect.

· Being committed to building positive relationships with children and adults.

· Being passionate about the job that you do.

· Living by the school values of growth, respect and determination.

· Working hard.

· Engaging with evidence-informed approaches to teaching and learning

· Believing that learning the basic skills in maths and English are essential for children to make good progress across the curriculum.

· Always continuing to improve and learn as a teacher.

· Being flexible, friendly and a team-player.

· Being honest and fair.

· Embracing diversity – everybody is welcome.

What we can offer you:

· Enthusiastic children who are curious, independent learners

· Excellent personal and professional development opportunities

· An experienced and talented team of staff with a supportive Trustees and wider School / community

· The opportunity to be involved in the wider life of our Trust

· Attractive salaries

· Access to the membership of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and other attractive benefits

· Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which offers a range of services such as Counselling and Physiotherapy.

· Attractive annual leave allowance including the potential to work term time only

· Opportunity for flexible working, where appropriate.

· Salary sacrifice schemes including childcare vouchers, cycle to work and car leasing

· Learning and development tailored to your role

The successful candidate will be subject to an online search in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (2023) legislation.

Your principal place of work will be Stocksfield Avenue Primary School, St Cuthberts Road, Fenham, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE5 2DQ but you may be required to work at other Trust sites within Smart Multi Academy Trust within reason.

Please apply by completing the application form and returning it to EPM at northrecruitment@EPM.co.uk

Closing date: Tuesday 7th May 2024

Interview date and observations are likely to be: Thursday 9th May 2024 and Friday 10th May 2024

Applications should be returned to: EPM at north.recruitment@EPM.co.uk

School visits are welcome: Tuesday 23rd April at 4:00pm, Thursday 25th April at 4:00pm, Tuesday 30th April at 4:00pm and Thursday 2nd May at 4:00pm. Please contact the school to arrange at kelly.oliver@smartacademies.net

Please note EPM ltd are managing the vacancy on behalf of Smart Multi Academy Trust.

SMART Multi Academy Trust

Wyndham Primary School

Reception Class Teacher and EYFS Lead

MPS 1- 6 £30,000 - £41,333 (+TLR2a £3,214) p.a.

(depending on qualifications and experience)

Permanent

Start date - September 2024

An exciting opportunity to join the team at Wyndham Primary School as a Reception Class Teacher and EYFS Lead. This school has Academy status and is one of eight schools within the Smart Multi-Academy Trust. This post is part of the Senior Leadership Team. You would be joining a very strong and supportive Senior Leadership Team determined to drive further improvements.

Wyndham Primary School is a vibrant, warm and welcoming place. The successful candidates will join a dedicated, hardworking team who are committed to raising standards throughout the school whilst maintaining a broad, balanced and creative curriculum. We are seeking an enthusiastic, hardworking and dedicated teacher to join our committed and exceptional school team.

Benefits of working for Smart Trust

Excellent personal and professional development opportunities

Opportunities for cross Trust collaboration

Access to Trust networking events and conferences

Access to the membership of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and other attractive benefits

Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which offers a range of services such as Counselling and Physiotherapy.

Salary sacrifice schemes including childcare vouchers and cycle to work.

Visits are encouraged on Tuesday 23rd April from 9.30am. Please call our office on 0191 285 3895 to book a place. You will be able to meet the team and have a look around our fantastic EYFS facilities.

Completed Application Form and Safe Recruitment Form should be emailed to: northrecruitment@epm.co.uk

Closing date: Tuesday 30th April 2024 - 12pm

Shortlisting: Wednesday 1st May 2024

Observations & Interviews: Wednesday 8th May 2024

SMART Multi Academy Trust is strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to obtain an Enhanced Certificate of Disclosure from the DBS and satisfy a range of pre-employment

checks. Please note that in all cases written references will be taken up and made available to interviewers BEFORE the final selection stage, even if you indicate otherwise.

Trustee Recruitment                                                                                                                                                               

Do you have a passion to see children’s life-chances transformed in northeast England? Are you ready to apply your skills at Board level to support a leading group of schools to grow and thrive?  If you answered ‘yes‘ to these questions, please consider whether you could join us as a Trustee of Smart Multi Academy Trust. This could be a great opportunity for you to give back some time, expertise and enthusiasm to help develop our trust to benefit the pupils, families and staff at our wonderful primary schools.  

Our Trust 

At Smart Multi Academy Trust we provide a high quality, bespoke education full of the best opportunities and experiences to help every child learn, be happy and ultimately successful in life.  

We are a family of 8 primary schools currently all in Newcastle upon Tyne who have formed a Multi Academy Trust because we share a collective vision for excellence in education. We believe passionately that the children within our communities deserve nothing less than the very best of opportunities and experiences to become successful citizens and lifelong learners able to lead happy, fulfilling and healthy lives. We live by our vision and values every day in all aspects of what we do and its important anyone joining the Trust does as well. Many of our pupils are disadvantaged but we work hard to prevent this being a barrier and ensuring every single one is advantaged by the education and opportunities we provide.  

We are entering an exciting growth phase which will see us adding more schools to our Trust. This will give us increased resource to widen and improve our networks that help us support the pupils, families and our employees to thrive. To do this well we need committed and engaged trustees who can advise and support this work. 

Smart Multi-Academy Trust - our Vision & Values

Our values are the principles to which we work and are central to all that we do as a Trust and in the life of our schools. It is important that each of our schools retain their own unique character reflective of their community, however all of us share our vision and values.

We care committed to following an ethical approach based on trust, empathy and respect in which everyone is included and supported to be the best they can be.

At Smart we provide a high quality, bespoke education full of the best opportunities and experiences to help every child learn, be happy and ultimately, successful in life as a global citizen.

Our Trust Board 

Our Trust Board has a wealth of expertise from the education, business, HR and finance sectors. We are interested in growing our Board to include people with experience in law, change management, organisation management, or facilities management at a strategic level. Our aim is to build a Board with the skillset to provide outstanding support and challenge to the Executive team, holding them to account as we strive to build an organisation that has a great reputation in the region and beyond.  

The Role 

We understand that being a trustee is a responsible role requiring an investment of time and energy. Nonetheless, we believe that we make this manageable for our dedicated volunteers. We draw upon the accessibility of Microsoft Teams to share resources and papers for the six meetings that we hold each academic year. In addition, Smart Trustees serve on one of the committees, which entails a further four meetings.  Meetings, which tend to run from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., can be joined via Teams or in person and move between sites so that Trustees get the opportunity to see the schools within the Trust.  As the Trustee role is “eyes on, hands off”, there is no requirement to undertake additional visits to our schools (though Trustees are always welcome!) and we ensure that our Trustees receive excellent support and training. 

For more information 

If you would like to know more and have a conversation, please contact Sandy Christie, Chair of the Trust Board, via email at chair.trustees@smartacademies.net or Colin Lofthouse, CEO at colin.lofthouse@smartacademies.net  

The Board of Trustees of Smart Multi Academy Trust is seeking to develop working relationships with the Northern Guild by offering placement opportunities for counselling and psychotherapy students. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a multi-agency-faceted role where students will be welcome to develop their skills across a number of disciplines across the eight schools in the Trust.
 

Overall purpose of the role: To provide emotional and therapeutic support to children aged 4-11 within the school based counselling service, whilst working within the BACP/UKCP ethical framework for counselling professionals (or other relevant Professional body) to improve and maintain the mental health and well-being of children.
 

Duties and responsibilities: The successful candidate will be required to work within the developing guidelines of the SMART Multi Academy Trust:

• To provide one to one counselling or therapeutic work within the SMART school counselling service for children aged 4–11 years old in an allocated school.  The number of allocated sessions will depend on relevant experience and the availability of the student.
• To provide a counselling needs assessment with parents/carers for children accessing counselling.
• Manage their own caseload diary, ensuring accurate record keeping and working in-line with the Trust’s safeguarding policy and procedure.

• Create and maintain excellent working relationships with parents and school staff. Liaise with the appropriate professionals in relation to the child.

• Provide information and case material to contribute to the annual evaluation report.  

• The Volunteer School Counsellor/Psychotherapist (VSC/P) will be required to work in-line with SMART’s confidentiality and information sharing policy.
• To work alongside and be supported by pastoral leads within school settings to work with identified children, including, where appropriate, liaising with external agencies.
   

Clinical Supervision: Successful VSC/Ps will be responsible for their own clinical supervision arrangements that comply with their course requirements.  Within school, they will report to the school SENDCo who will provide line management supervision and ongoing support.  The Trust is dedicated to promoting the mental health and wellbeing of our children. As a result, the Trust will contribute to the costs of clinical supervision and we would be happy to discuss this with successful candidates.
 

Closing date for applications: Applications are welcome over the course of the year and informal interviews with prospective candidates will be held at a mutually convenient time.
 

Applying

If you decide to apply for this post, please complete the Smart Multi Academy Trust application form and all supporting documentation.

Smart Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  All posts are subject to an enhanced disclosure check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.  Please note that in all cases, written references will be taken up and made available to interviewers before the final selection stage; even if you indicate otherwise.
 

Please send all completed applications and supporting documentation to enquiries@smartacadmies.net for the attention of Jenny Spoors, Administration and Finance Support Officer.

The Board of Trustees of Smart Multi Academy Trust is seeking to develop working relationships with the Northern Guild by offering placement opportunities for counselling and psychotherapy trainees.  This is an excellent opportunity to work in a multi-agency-faceted role where trainees will be welcome to develop their skills across a number of disciplines within the eight schools in the Trust.

Overall purpose of the role: To provide emotional and therapeutic support to parents and staff within the school based counselling service, whilst working within the BACP/UKCP ethical framework for counselling professionals (or other relevant Professional body) to improve and maintain the mental health and well-being of adult stakeholders.

Duties and responsibilities:  The successful candidate will be required to work within the developing guidelines of the SMART Multi Academy Trust:

• To provide one to one counselling or therapeutic work within the SMART school counselling service for parents and staff in an allocated school.  The number of allocated sessions will depend on relevant experience, service requirements and the availability of the student.
• Manage their own caseload diary, working in-line with the Trust’s safeguarding policy and procedure.
• Create and maintain excellent working relationships with parents and school staff. Liaise with the appropriate professionals in relation to the adult.

• The Volunteer School Counsellor/Psychotherapist (VSC/P) will be required to work in-line with SMART’s confidentiality and information sharing policy.
• To work alongside and be supported by pastoral leads within school settings to work with identified families, including, where appropriate, liaising with external agencies.

Clinical Supervision: Successful VSC/Ps will be responsible for their own clinical supervision arrangements that comply with their course requirements.  Within school, they will report to the school SENDCo who will provide line management supervision and ongoing support.  The Trust is dedicated to promoting the mental health and wellbeing of our families and staff, as a result, the Trust will contribute to the costs of clinical supervision and we would be happy to discuss this with successful candidates.

Closing date for applications: Applications are welcome over the course of the year and informal interviews with prospective candidates will be held at a mutually convenient time.

Applying

If you decide to apply for this post, please complete the Smart Multi Academy Trust application form and all supporting documentation.

Smart Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  All posts are subject to an enhanced disclosure check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.  Please note that in all cases, written references will be taken up and made available to interviewers before the final selection stage; even if you indicate otherwise.

Please send all completed applications and supporting documentation to enquiries@smartacadmies.net for the attention of Jenny Spoors, Administration and Finance Support Officer.