Phase Leader - Key Stage 1

Job purpose:

To lead and manage pupil development and educational progress, and to lead staff within Key S1

Principal accountabilities:

• Demonstrate exemplary classroom practice and be a role model to all staff within your phase including implementations of policy, CARE core values and behaviour expectations.
• Monitor standards of teaching (teachers and support staff), provide feedback, and identify and implement strategies for improvement where needs are identified.
• With Senior Leaders, implement performance management for your staff which develops their skills set and capability, holding your staff accountable to high expectations.

• Lead and manage pupil development and progression via excellent pupil progress systems, planning oversight (with subject specialists) and appropriate but ambitious target-setting.
• Provide the school’s leadership (including Governors) with headline pupil performance information and data.
• Contribute to school self-evaluation and improvement planning, and plan and implement strategies where improvement needs are identified.
• Lead staff through Pupil Progress and Accountability meetings by:

- Monitoring systems to assess and record pupil progress and achievement

- Monitoring pupil standards and achievement against annual targets and track progress

- Working with SENDCos to devise effective intervention strategies

• Support transition arrangements (pre/post Key Stage)
• Develop the role of support staff in promoting pupils’ progress across Key Stage by:

- Identifying CPD needs and developing opportunities within the phase (alongside DHT/HT)

- Supporting the HT and DHT with thorough inductions, providing support and monitoring new staff and support staff, including those needing extra support (alongside DHT)

• Develop and role model excellent relationships with parents/carers and other stakeholders in school.

Knowledge and Skills:

• principles and practices of effective teaching and learning
• school improvement strategies and the process of school self-evaluation
• principles and practices of monitoring/assessment/evaluation
• principles and practices of pupil management
• influencing/coaching/communication skills
• working in/leading teams/partnerships to deliver improvements
• processes and systems for quality assurance
• principles and practices of effective leadership and management of change