Welcome to Reach Academy Hanworth Park.

We are welcoming an incredible founding team to open, lead and grow our new school. This is a career-defining opportunity to inaugurate a school culture and lead our founding Year 7 cohort.

We believe character education and the highest levels of pastoral care are fundamental to a child’s schooling. We want our students to be courageous, knowledgeable and respectful. We also want them to love school and learning with excellent relationships with their teachers whilst achieving extraordinary academic outcomes.

Role overview:

Being part of a founding team opening a new school is the greatest privilege in the world.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to establish a nationally leading year group culture in a school determined to give its students lives of choice and opportunity.

Reach Academy Hanworth Park will open in September 2024 with children in Reception and Year 7. It will then grow organically each year until it is full, with the first Year 7 cohort sitting their GCSEs in 2029 and their A Levels in 2031.

Role Details:

Reception Teacher

Reports to: Co-headteachers, Tilly Browne and Louis Everett.

Start date: September 2024

Salary: Inner-London salary, commensurate with experience

Location: Feltham

We embrace flexible working and have extensive experience of team members working flexibly. That said, starting a new school is complex and important work and it may be, therefore, that greater flexibility is something that comes in time.

Role responsibilities:

You understand and strongly believe in the school’s ethos and values with a commitment to ensure all students leave RAHP to live a life of choice and opportunity.

You actively create a strong year group culture utilising Reach Schools’ shared values to ensure students are motivated and aspirational with exemplary conduct in lessons and around the school.

You develop and deliver character education incrementally through our morning meets, assemblies, family dining, shared language and day-to-day interactions.

You consistently work with, and establish strong relationships, with families to support their children to achieve extraordinary things.

You create a culture of learning through the consistent application of high expectations and the development of students’ attitudes and skills.

You embed a study skills programme which equips students to maximise lesson time and continue to learn outside the classroom.

You celebrate success of students consistently and publicly to establish a culture of achievement.

You display visible leadership around the school, positively reinforcing excellent conduct and challenging behaviour not in keeping with Reach’s expectations of students.

You work proactively to break cycles of negative behaviour so students can learn from their mistakes and strive to improve their conduct.

You consistently communicate the progress of students to parents as part of high-quality community engagement.

You promote the school’s values and ethos through the development and implementation of policies, practices and procedures.

You establish strong personal relationships with students and their families through introductory home visits and then consistent communication.

You help develop a school culture unwaveringly committed to providing students with lives of choice and opportunity.

You establish strong relationships with colleagues and external professionals to work collaboratively for the benefit of all students and their families.

You establish a culture of positive attendance where students and their families aspire to attend school every day.

You lead in the effective implementation of the school’s attendance policy.

You undertake, and when required, deliver relevant training and professional development.

You undertake various other responsibilities as directed by the Co-headteachers.

Personal specification:

Unwavering belief in the vision and values of Reach Academy Hanworth Park

Understanding of what constitutes high levels of pastoral care

Excellent teacher and public speaker with a constant desire to improve

Has ‘start up energy’ with clear motivation to help found an extraordinary school

Highly organised and attentive to detail

Clear commitment to character education and the development of the whole child

Qualified teacher and good honours degree

Expansive knowledge and passion for your subject

About the Process - How to apply:

Please read our ‘Safer recruitment’ statement at the end of the job pack.

Follow the link in the job pack to complete an online application form.

The deadline for application is Friday 12th January 2024 at 5pm. We actively encourage early applications. Applications will be reviewed as and when they are received.

Suitable candidates will be contacted w/c 15th January 2024 and invited to attend an in-person interview during the w/c 22nd January 2024.

If you would like to have an informal conversation to discuss the role, please contact the co-headteacher Louis Everett, directly on louis.everett@reachacademy.org.uk.