Phase Leader

Cedars Academy; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership development access

Staff wellbeing focus

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Cedars Academy in Birmingham seeks a Phase Leader to spearhead the KS2 phase, coaching colleagues and using assessment data to target interventions while sustaining strong teaching standards. The role emphasizes inclusive practice, behaviour leadership and aligning with whole-school priorities.

The post suits a proven KS2 practitioner with a grounding in cognitive science and an ambition to progress to senior leadership. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• Outstanding KS2 practitioner with proven impact on outcomes.
• Grounding in cognitive science and its practical application.
• Experience leading KS2 teams and driving school priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead a KS2 phase team with clarity and ambition, ensuring high-quality teaching and effective use of resources.
• Lead staff to apply a range of teaching and learning strategies, including inclusive practice.
• Coach, mentor and support staff, addressing areas of concern swiftly.
• Develop and implement assessment strategies, data analysis and intervention programmes so all children make at least good progress.
• Promote inclusive policies and practices that foster tolerance and respect for diversity.
• Ensure positive behaviour management is applied consistently in line with the school's strategy.
• Build a collaborative team ethos where staff share knowledge and take responsibility for outcomes.
• Contribute to and promote whole-school priorities, policies and activities.
• Lead by example
• Remain a class teacher, modelling excellence.

Skills

Curriculum knowledge

Cognitive science in teaching

Strategic thinking

Collaboration and trust

Job description

This Phase Leader post at Cedars Academy in Birmingham, a Robin Hood MAT school, places a KS2 phase team under a classroom teacher who keeps teaching. The work centres on raising standards across the phase by coaching colleagues, using assessment and data to target intervention, and applying consistent behaviour and inclusion practice. It suits a teacher with proven KS2 impact, a grounding in cognitive science, and an aim to move towards senior leadership. Visa sponsorship is not available.

What the job involves

• Lead a KS2 phase team with clarity and ambition, ensuring high-quality teaching and effective use of resources
• Lead staff to apply a range of teaching and learning strategies, including inclusive practice
• Coach, mentor and support staff, addressing areas of concern swiftly
• Develop and implement assessment strategies, data analysis and intervention programmes so all children make at least good progress
• Promote inclusive policies and practices that foster tolerance and respect for diversity
• Ensure positive behaviour management is applied consistently in line with the school's strategy
• Build a collaborative team ethos where staff share knowledge and take responsibility for outcomes
• Contribute to and promote whole-school priorities, policies and activities
• Lead by example
• Remain a class teacher, modelling excellence

What’s required

Experience

• Outstanding KS2 practitioner with proven impact on outcomes

Skills & knowledge

• Expert knowledge of the curriculum and effective pedagogy
• Secure understanding of cognitive science and its practical application
• Strategic thinking and purposeful action
• Influence on others through collaboration, clarity, integrity and professional trust

Checks & eligibility

• Enhanced DBS check with Children's Barred List check
• Not barred from engaging in regulated activity
• Self-declaration of criminal record and suitability to work with children
• Online search as part of KCSIE due diligence

Other

• Drive, moral purpose and leadership potential
• Ambition and capacity to progress into senior leadership

Nice to have

• Previous subject leadership experience

What’s offered

• Culture of high expectations, professional trust and psychological safety
• Supportive staff community where collaboration is the norm
• Senior leaders committed to coaching, mentoring and developing future aspirations
• Access to Trust-wide networks, leadership development and subject communities
• Commitment to staff wellbeing, including manageable workload expectations
• Time allocated for leadership responsibilities
• Leadership team that values balance, reflection and sustainable excellence