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:
- TPS and LGPS pensions available to eligible staff
- Exam marker payment of £400 plus 2 days’ paid leave to do the marking (1styear)
- Payments for staff taking weekend sporting fixtures: staff paid £200 for
leading a minimum of six Saturday fixtures plus 6 weekly training sessions - A daily allowance of £50 for school trips taken over a weekend or any school holiday
- A £1,000 employee referral scheme (i.e. Finder’s fee) for any qualifying positions that
staff refer the successful candidate for: £500 on the person starting, and £500 if the
person is still in employment in the Trust 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
