The posting
Rise Park Academies is at an exciting time of transformation with a newly appointed Senior Leadership Team. We are seeking an exceptional Year Group Leader/Class Teacher to join our team who are committed to providing our children with a world class education which they so rightly deserve. In this role, you will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team to provide excellent teaching and learning, ensuring that all learners progress and achieve excellent outcomes. If you are an ambitious and driven teacher with high expectations who is passionate about making a difference, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity at our school and we look forward to receiving your application.
About the Role:
- You will receive weekly leadership time.
- To act as ‘Year Group Leader’ with day to day responsibilities for the quality and consistency of provision, standards and achievement in the year group and for making sure that the teaching and learning priorities of the school improvement plan are reflected in the work of the year group staff.
- To act as ‘Year Group Leader’ with day to day responsibilities for the quality and consistency of provision, standards and achievement in the year group and for making sure that the teaching and learning priorities of the school improvement plan are reflected in the work of the year group staff.
- Plan, deliver, and assess engaging and effective lessons across the curriculum.
- Build strong relationships with pupils, parents, and colleagues.
- Contribute to the school's continued development and play a major part in our future success.
- To carry out associated duties as are reasonably assigned by the Executive Headteacher.
- Be an effective practitioner and be able to demonstrate competencies across the DfE Teachers’ Standards. Teachers' Standards - GOV.UK We are seeking an individual who:
- Holds Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Demonstrates a strong commitment to high-quality teaching and learning and has high expectations
- Possesses excellent communication, collaboration, and organisational skills
- Has a passion for nurturing young minds and inspiring a love of learning
- Is a reflective practitioner who is committed to their own professional development and open to trying new ideas
- Aligns with our school's values and ethos
Purpose of the post
- To act as ‘Year Group Leader’ with day to day responsibilities for the quality and consistency of provision, standards and achievement in the year group and for making sure that the teaching and learning priorities of the school improvement plan are reflected in the work of the year group staff.
- To be responsible for leading other staff in a team as well as contributing to the development of either a core or foundation subject or an aspect of the work of the school.
- To carry out associated duties as are reasonably assigned by the Executive Headteacher.
Particular Responsibilities
1. To ensure that consistent, inclusive and differentiated long term, medium term, short term and where appropriate individual pupil planning is carried out consistently across the year group.
Key Tasks
- To lead by example in ensuring that all aspects of planning are in place in order to deliver lessons appropriate to the needs and abilities of pupils in each class/set in the year group to include those with additional needs, e.g. pupils with special needs, EAL and PP.
- To ensure that year group teachers share planning to maximise expertise and consistency of provision for children of all abilities in the specified classes and sets.
- To liaise with the Senior Leadership Team to ensure that support staff in the phase are deployed effectively to help raise standards and that relevant information including curriculum plans are regularly provided.
- To ensure that supply staff covering for absence are provided with sufficient support to enable lessons to be taught to the highest possible standard.
- To evaluate at regular intervals, with other key staff, through either discussion or a written report to summarise findings.
2. To monitor the quality and consistency of provision in the year group. To ensure that target setting, the analysis of targets and their review is carried out in the year group.
Key Tasks
- To be responsible for undertaking monitoring activities at regular intervals, e.g. talking to pupils, undertaking work scrutiny, lesson observations etc.
- Feeding back to staff/leadership team with a verbal/ written evaluation and facilitate how these next steps can be achieved through professional development opportunities, e.g. observations of others, directed to watch clips from Step Lab and evaluate, YGL to model to the staff member in their class, marking and feedback support.
- To ensure that teachers set relevant targets with children and that staff understand the expectations of the performance of the year group in contributing to whole school targets.
Additional duties and responsibilities relating to the post of TLR
Leadership, Management, Organisation and Administration
- To liaise closely through attendance at regular meetings with the Senior Leadership team and other staff in order to promote clear lines of communication.
- To assist in formulating the aims of the school and the establishment of policies.
- To be a visible presence around the school in order to provide encouragement and support for staff and pupils.
- To act as team leader for appraisal purposes for up to two teachers in the specified year group.
- To engage in continual leadership development to improve and develop own leadership capital and the capacity of the leadership team.
Why work with us:
As an employer, we are committed to promoting career development and recognise hard work and effort. As an equal opportunities employer we offer from day one of your employment parental leave, compassionate leave and carers leave at or above the statutory levels. We are committed to wellbeing and flexible working requests which can be submitted from day one.
The Trust's January 2026 Staff Survey results confirm it is a great, safe, and supportive place to work. Staff are significantly more likely to recommend the Trust as a good employer compared to the national benchmark. This positive sentiment is consistent throughout, with general job satisfaction and communication outcomes also being substantially higher than the national benchmark.
As an employee, you will be covered by our excellent well-being support and medical cover programmes provided through the Spark and Medicash organisations. This includes access 24 hours a day to a GP helpline, physiotherapy, optical support, dental treatment, and access to a counselling service.
We also are the only primary school in Havering which has 14 weeks holiday a year with a 2 week October half term.
Rise Park Academies is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check (with children's barred list check)
Rise Park Academies is an equal opportunities employer including blind recruitment.
"We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce. Applications are welcome from all sections of the community regardless of gender, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, disability, religion or belief, age or sex and sexual orientation.”
Further details can be downloaded from our website www.riseparkacademies.co.uk
If you are looking to advance your career in a supportive and dynamic setting and are committed to providing the very best experience for our staff and students, we would love to meet you.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Committed employer and we welcome applications from the whole community. All application for flexible working will be accommodated if operationally feasible.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role. If you are interested in the role, please submit your application as early as possible.
The use of AI is strictly forbidden to assist in any way with the interview/application process.
*Previous applicants need not apply.
