Early Years Phase Leader

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Location Willow Primary School

Salary MPS1 to MPS6 £ 32,916 to £45,352 plus TLR 2

Basis Full time

Job profile for Early Years Phase Leader

Willow Primary School 20/09/2026

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Salary MPS1 to MPS6 £ 32,916 to £45,352 plus TLR 2 Contractual hours 32.5 Basis Full time Region Doncaster Job category/type Education - Non-Teaching Date posted 03/08/2026 Job reference REQ
23706

Willow Primary School

Alston Road

Doncaster

DN4 7EZ

Contract Type:
Permanent from 1 st January 2027

Contracted hours:
32.5 hours per week

Responsible to:
Head of School and
Leadership Team

The Directors of Exceed Learning Partnership and Governors of Willow Primary School are looking to appoint an inspirational Early Years Phase Leader to join our amazing team.

Willow Primary School is part of Exceed Learning Partnership, a Multi Academy Trust that currently comprises of 10 Academies, Bentley High Street Primary School, Carr Lodge Academy, Edlington Victoria Academy, Hall Cross Academy, Hill Top Academy, Rosedale Primary School, Sandringham Primary School, Sheep Dip Lane Academy, The Mallard Academy and Willow Primary School

We are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled early years teacher who is an experienced phase leader or who is ready to take the next stage in their career into Leadership. You will play a pivotal role in enhancing the educational experience of our Pupils. Our successful candidate will have experience of working with pupils in Early Years and will have a significant impact on their academic progress and their personal development.

This is a great opportunity for an exceptional individual to join a highly successful and rapidly- expanding Trust. There will be scope to have significant impact and develop your career with the organisation

Why work for Exceed Learning Partnership and at Willow Primary School?

We are a friendly, vibrant two form entry primary academy in Bessacarr with 420 children aged 4 to 11. At Willow Primary School, our aim is to foster a love of learning and develop enquiring minds, enabling all our children to overcome barriers and reach their full potential.

We strive to ensure that our children value themselves as unique individuals, celebrating diversity and respecting differences. We work together as a community to enable all our children to grow to be responsible citizens and successful learners with high aspirations who know how to make a positive contribution to our community and the wider society.

Our ASPIRE Values permeate through everything we do and we expect our pupils to be ambitious to achieve their very best through being positive, self-motivated, engaged in their learning and independent in their decisions. There is a high focus on developing children’s moral, spiritual, social and cultural understanding.

At Willow we expect our children to ASPIRE to be:

• Ambitious to achieve
• Self-motivated
• Positive
• Independent
• Respectful
• Engaged

Education is a partnership between home and school and we place a great deal of emphasis on our partnership with parents and the community. We believe that children learn best when home and school work together and in our most recent Ofsted inspection, we were GOOD in all areas.

Working in Exceed Learning Partnership will offer:

• Excellent career development working alongside a National Leader of Education
• Talented and hard-working professional colleagues who are committed to children’s success across the curriculum
• The support of being…