Career Benefits
Alongside our very strong focus on outstanding professional development and promotion opportunities, we also offer a range of benefits including:
Competitive base salary with a tailor-made development plan aimed at enhancing your future potential, through:
- High quality, personalised CPD
- Bespoke leadership development programmes
- Subsidies for Masters and Degree courses
- Secondment and shadowing opportunities
- As part of the Trust, potential to work across more than one school to develop career enhancing skills and knowledge
Additional financial incentives and tax efficient benefits, including:
- On-site independently run nursery provision at Goffs-Churchgate with Ashbourne Nurseries, plus nursery provision at any of their nurseries in the Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, and Bedfordshire area:
- 15% discount for all Trust staff.
- Term time only places are available
- Onsite car valeting at a reduced price for Trust staff
- If you are involved in marking public exams, you are eligible to claim a one-off payment of £200. During your first year of this duty, you are can take 2 days paid leave to complete learning and work
- Enhanced rates for leading after-school and holiday revision sessions
- Eligible staff may join the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Enhanced annual leave for full year support staff
- Paid time off for:
- Interviews
- Moving house
- Study/exam leave
- Medical appointments
- “Special” leave
- Compassionate Leave
- Generous sick pay allowances
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free on-site parking at all sites
- Substantially discounted membership to a new professionally run, externally let, Lifestyle Fitness Gym
- Payments for staff taking weekend sporting fixtures: staff paid £200 for leading a minimum of six Saturday fixtures plus 6 weekly training sessions
- An overnight allowance of £50 for each overnight stay on a school trip
- A termly allowance of £200 if you lead a school sports team and participate in a minimum of 6 sporting fixtures at weekends across an academic term, plus take a minimum of 6 weekly training sessions.
- A £1,000 Employee Referral Scheme (i.e. finder’s fee) for any qualifying positions that you refer the successful candidate for: £500 on the first full month of the employees start date, and £500 if the person is still at the school 12 months later
Access to a wide range of health and well-being resources, including:
- Employee Assistance Programme via Spectrum Life which offers access to:
- An in-the-moment advisory helpline on a wide range of personal, work-related or financial issues
- Further counselling support (subject to a referral)
- Shopping discounts portal
- Healthy eating ideas
- Fitness programmes
- A wealth of wellbeing resources such as podcasts and mindfulness techniques
- Two-week autumn half term
- Trained Mental Health First Aiders at all Trust sites
- Support Staff annual leave increases in line with service at 5- and 10-years’ service
- Modern, professional and fit for purpose working environments
- Free use of a range of sports and leisure facilities, including a fully equipped gym
- Free flu jabs
- Subsidised social events
- Free tea, coffee and milk
- Ad hoc rewards such as ice cream van visits, fruit, donuts, chocolates, Easter eggs and many more
