Job Description

Advertisement : EYFS TLR2 Phase Leader (Nursery / Reception)

Full Time Position

Required September 2026

Our school community is seeking to appoint an excellent Phase Leader to join our elite team of professional colleagues. Leading the nursery and reception EYFS team, the successful candidate will inspire our colleagues to achieve outstanding standards of development and care. They will enable highly confident, ambitious and resilient learning through an enjoyable and enriched early years curriculum, monitoring standards and developing the people to provide a consistently high quality of service.

The successful candidate will:

• Be of the highest integrity; an elite colleague who leads by example
• Lead people with a positive and effective approach
• Provide active support for a phase team
• Be accountable for implementation and outcomes across a phase
• Be an active and effective member of the Senior Leadership Team
• Liaise and lead effective transition across key stages
• Utilise evidence effectively to lead improvement in the phase

The school will:

• Provide regular leadership release time
• Support the successful candidate through ongoing professional development, including national professional qualifications
• Continue its commitment to continual improvement through a team of highly effective people
• Continue to strive to be the best we can be!

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged. Applications must be accompanied with a full personal statement exemplifying how the requirements of the post are being, and will be, achieved.

St. George's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all persons at the school to actively share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to a DBS clearance, medical checks and satisfactory references.

Please contact team@stgeorgesschool.org for more information.

Information about the School

We are passionate about our school. Why? … you ask.

It’s simple really. St. George’s School is at the heart our community. It is a well-established school with a sense of pride, community spirit and values. It is also a school which is proud to be pushing forward; developing increasingly effective teaching and learning strategies that support all of our children … a truly inclusive place to be.

We are focused on improving many aspects of school life. We promote a love of reading for all children, grow skilled writers and mathematicians and support children effectively in both their learning and well-being. We aim to provide an engaging curriculum for all our young learners through interest, breadth and depth, and offer excellent facilities.

Our school is one that has been on an exciting journey of development. Formed from previous separate infant and junior schools in 2021, our newly formed primary school serves the community of New Town and beyond, and is committed to be inclusive of all.

Many of our classrooms are newly refurbished and are lovely places to teach and learn. With capacity for 680 children, including our own nursery, we are one of the largest primary settings in the area, and provide a true team ethos in which to grow professionally.

However, we still have much to do and believe that, by working in partnership to achieve a common purpose, we can continue to provide a school that is at the cutting edge of educational practice. We are graded 'Good' by Ofsted (2023) and are an Inclusion Quality Mark Centre of Excellence. In the last available value added benchmarks we were one of the highest rated schools in the locality.

We know that success is drawn from professional cooperation and partnership. We are therefore trustees of the Child First Trust, participants in Partners in Excellence (PiXL) and active members of a local schools’ partnership, newly launched in April this year. These networks enable teachers and leaders to learn from each other, and provide mutual support across schools. We encourage our teachers to develop themselves further through national qualifications, and give them a real and meaningful voice in the advancement of our practice and curriculum offer. Professionally, it is a great place to be.

So, as you can see, we really are passionate about our school and recognise that through enabling inspirational teaching, learning and leadership, we will set the school well on the way to improving further still.

The Headteacher and Governing Body