Smart Multi-Academy Trust

SENDCo/Inclusion Lead

Stocksfield Avenue Primary School

Pay Scale – M1-UPS3 + SENDCo allowance

Required from 1st September 2025: Permanent role

Non-class based.

Part Time and Full-Time applications welcome

The Board of Trustees of SMART Multi Academy Trust are seeking to appoint a SENDCo/inclusion lead for Stocksfield Avenue Primary School. At Stocksfield Avenue Primary School we believe that learning should be a rewarding, enjoyable and inspiring experience for everyone. To achieve this, we constantly strive to deliver teaching that is based on a broad balanced curriculum that is also creative. We do this in an environment where children are valued, successes celebrated, and all are empowered to take responsibility and aspire to be the very best they can be.

Stocksfield Avenue Primary School is a diverse, popular and oversubscribed two-form entry school in the west end of Newcastle. The school benefits from excellent facilities such as specialist music provision, forest school and extensive school grounds. The school was rated as ‘good’ in the latest Ofsted inspection 2024. This is an exciting opportunity in a successful and happy school in the heart of a vibrant and diverse community.

The successful applicant will be someone who:

· Is an enthusiastic practitioner who is committed to providing high quality learning experiences for all pupils, including pupils with SEND, and who has a proven track record for achieving excellent pupil progress.

· Can play a full part in whole-school strategic planning and development as a key member of the Leadership Team.

· Can work effectively with parents to provide the best for their children.

· Monitors standards and progress to ensure high standards.

· Demonstrates outstanding classroom practice, including behaviour management.

· Can support and develop high-quality teaching and learning across the school.

· Can support staff and pupils with behaviour techniques and wider strategies.

· Has high expectations of themselves and their children.

· Is highly motivated and skilled at monitoring and target setting to enhance and accelerate children’s learning.

· Can inspire, lead and motivate pupils and staff, being an exemplary practitioner and professional who leads by example with high standards for all

· Can work in strategic partnership with all stakeholders to lead and raise the quality of provision for pupils with SEND.

· Is committed to personal and professional development.

· Understands the importance and impact of attendance in education

· Has excellent interpersonal skills.

· Has up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to working with, and the protection of pupils and young people.

· Is committed to developing and sustaining excellent relationships across the whole school community.

· Has excellent communication and organisational skills, and an approachable, determined and resilient character.

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.

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

Closing date: Monday 9th May 2025 (12pm)

Shortlisting date: Monday 9th May 2025

Interviews, tasks and observations: Friday 16th May 2025

Visits are strongly encouraged: Please call our office on 0191 274 8434 to book a visit

Tuesday 29th April 4.00pm / Wednesday 30th April 9.30am

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. Please also note that if you do not hear from us within a few days of the closing date then your application has been unsuccessful.

Smart Multi-Academy Trust

Stocksfield Avenue Primary School

Class Teacher (Maternity Cover)

MPS1 – UPS3 (ECTs welcome to apply)

Fixed-term role for one year from September 2025

The Board of Trustees of SMART Multi Academy Trust are seeking to appoint a teacher to cover maternity leave at Stocksfield Avenue Primary School. The role is likely to be in KS2 but we would welcome applications from candidates with experience at KS1 and KS2.

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 2024 (see link below).

This is an exciting opportunity in a successful and happy school in the heart of a vibrant and diverse community.

The role will involve responsibility for teaching a class.

Each successful applicant will be a teacher who:

· Can plan and provide inspirational and relevant learning experiences.

· Demonstrates highly effective classroom practice.

· Has high expectations of themselves and their children.

· Is highly motivated and skilled at monitoring and target setting to enhance and accelerate children’s learning.

· Makes learning real in order to unlock student engagement and stimulate curiosity, provide deeper thinking and a passion for learning.

· Is committed to developing and sustaining excellent relationships across the whole school community.

· Has excellent communication and organisational skills.

· Has experience of teaching in KS1 and KS2.

What we can offer:

· Commitment to CPD and teacher development.

· Commitment to pupil and staff wellbeing.

· A diverse school community with fantastic pupils and families.

· Extensive school grounds, spacious classrooms and wonderful facilities.

· Happy, friendly, welcoming and supportive staff.

· Being part of a committed and supportive Trust that prioritises staff and pupils.

Please download an application pack from www.northeastjobs.org.uk under Newcastle City Council.

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

Closing date: Friday 2nd May 2025 (12pm).

Shortlisting date: Friday 2nd May 2025.

Interviews and lesson observations:

To take place week beginning Monday 5th May 2025

Visit dates

Visits are strongly encouraged, please call our office on 0191 274 8434 to book a visit on one of the following dates.

• Friday 11th April 1.00pm
• Tuesday 29th April 4.00pm
• Wednesday 30th April 9.30am

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. Please also note that if you do not hear from us within a few days of the closing date then your application has been unsuccessful.

Phase Leader post for Early Years

Salary: £31,650 - £49,084 with a TLR1 allowance of £9,782 per annum

Hours: Full time, Monday – Friday

Contract Type: Permanent Full Time from 1st September 2025

Location: Kingston Park Primary School

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 10 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.

Kingston Park Primary is seeking to recruit a TLR1 Phase Leader, who will be accountable for educational progress of learners within a designated phase.

We will provide the successful candidate with a wealth of opportunities to shape the school vision and direction for the future, with a particular emphasis on Early Years and the teaching of phonics throughout the school.

The successful applicant will have:

· Experience as a member of a leadership team in a school covering the primary age range.

· Experience of leading a curriculum subject with excellent, up to date knowledge and understanding.

· A thorough understanding of the needs of pupils from EYFS to Key Stage 2. A good, up to date working knowledge and understanding of teaching and learning.

Closing date: Friday 2nd May 2025

Shortlisting date: Week commencing 5th May 2025

School Visit: Shortlisted candidates have the opportunity to visit the school on Friday 9th May (9:30 – 10:30 am or 3.45-4.45pm). Please indicate your date of preference when submitting your application.

Lesson Observations: (in own school if geographically possible) 19th / 21st May 2025

Interview dates: 22nd / 23rd May 2025

The 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 a range of other recruitment checks.

As this post involves working with children and dealing with sensitive information, written references will be taken up and made available to interviewers before the final selection stage, even if you indicate otherwise.

An application pack is attached to the job advert.

Completed application Form, Safer Recruitment Form and Privacy Notice Declaration should be returned to northrecruitment@epm.co.uk

SMART Multi Academy Trust is an exempt charity and company limited by guarantee registered in England with company number 10257723. The company's registered office is Wyndham Primary School, Montagu Avenue, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4SB.

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.