Classroom Manager – 32.5hrs per week
Kestrel Mead, Part of The Mead Educational Trust (TMET)
Salary: G5 £22571 (FTE £29779) Contract Type: Full time
Contract Term: Fixed Term July 2027
Start Date: ASAP
Closing Date: Monday 12th October
Interview Date: Thursday 15th October
🌟 About the Role
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Classroom Manager to join our dedicated and forward-thinking team at Kestrel Mead, part of The Mead Educational Trust (TMET).
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a culture of excellence, ambition, and inclusion. The successful candidate will have a commitment to securing the best outcomes for all learners and play an active role in shaping a safe and positive school environment. The role will include providing supervision of lessons across the curriculum in the event of the absence (planned or unplanned) of the teacher, ensuring that pupils are engaged in pre-set work, managing pupil behaviour and ensuring a safe environment.
🏫 Kestrel Mead is a large, 4 form entry, split site school serving a diverse community in Hamilton, Leicester. Our children demonstrate our character behaviours of respect, curiosity, resilience and compassion to be the best they can be in everything they do. We have an experienced team of support staff who are integral in supporting our children to achieve excellence, have a strong sense of being and create equity.
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✅ What We’re Looking For
We welcome applicants who can demonstrate:
• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
• A professional, and caring approach
• The ability to work collaboratively within a team
• A flexible mindset providing whole class teaching and class based support
• A commitment to supporting all children to be the best they can be
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🌱 Why Join Us?
The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) is a growing family of schools united by a shared commitment to delivering exceptional education and improving life chances for all our pupils. Serving a diverse range of communities across Leicester and Leicestershire, TMET is built on strong values of collaboration, inclusion, integrity, and excellence.
We are passionate about creating opportunities for staff to thrive. As part of TMET, you will benefit from:
• Access to high-quality professional development, coaching, and career progression
• Trust-wide collaboration across a network of passionate, like-minded professionals
• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing and work-life balance, including access to the Vivup Employee Assistance Programme
• Clear, values-led leadership and a shared drive to make a meaningful difference in education
TMET is an inclusive employer, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds and levels of experience. We believe that every child deserves an outstanding education – and that every adult in our organisation deserves to feel supported, valued, and inspired.
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🔐 Safer Recruitment & Safeguarding Statement
The Mead Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
An enhanced DBS check with a check of the barred lists is required for all roles working with children. As part of our safer recruitment process and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026, we will also carry out:
• Online searches for all shortlisted candidates, to help identify any issues or concerns that are publicly available online
• Checks on employment history, references, and eligibility to work in the UK
We are an equal opportunities employer.
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.