Early Years Lead - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham City Council

Description

Start date 1 September 2024

Hours full time

Grestone Academy

175 Grestone Avenue

Handsworth Wood

Birmingham

B20 1ND

Contact email

This is a great time to be joining our 'Good' school, the perfect opportunity for a hard-working individual, who is looking to support our school community.

As the Early Years Lead, you will be responsible for the standard of teaching and learning across the curriculum in EYFS. Providing motivation and inspiration, you will lead and develop teachers to recognise and deliver exemplary teaching and learning, which both encourages and enables all pupils to develop and progress within their own abilities in a safe, stimulating and supportive environment.

The ideal candidate has -

• a warm and caring nature with the ability to develop positive relationships with students and colleagues
  
• a flexible approach to work with the ability to prioritise their workload
  
• evidence of making effective and positive changes within a team and which directly impact on improved teaching, learning, behaviour and classroom management which would be considered exemplary
  
• demonstrable evidence of excellent classroom practice in the Early Years age range
  
• experience of leading staff, including performance management and supporting individuals to improve practice and which raised standards across the team
  
  To find out more about Grestone Academy please visit the School Website
  
  

  We encourage you to come and have a look at our academy, please contact to arrange a visit.
  
  

  This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates.
  
  

  This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
  
  

  This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.