Why Join Mossbourne Federation?

CPD Offer

Quality-first teaching is at the heart of our commitment to all Mossbournians.

We believe that schools need to embody a culture of continuous professional development to get the best out of everyone and ensure that our high expectations are met by even higher outcomes.

Our ambitious professional development offer includes:

  • FedCon: A Federation Conference each academic year bringing together all staff to promote collaborative working across the Federation.

  • CPD Sessions: Providing staff with ‘little and often’ training opportunities after the school day and within core hours.

  • Performance Management Day: A day every academic year for staff to plan their career goals and progression within the Federation.

  • Career Progression: Our bespoke CPD calendar features localised training, coaching and mentoring opportunities, ring-fenced time for goal setting and review, a progressive online development portal and support from a dedicated HR team and training budget. We offer trainee leadership roles, internal promotions and secondments across the Federation to support professional growth.

  • INSET Days: Eight INSET days every academic year.

Staff Benefits

All Mossbourne staff have access to extensive benefits, including:

  • Hybrid working: In our secondary academies, student timetables finish at lunchtime on Fridays. Staff decide where they work to do their preparation, marking and assessment after that time. Our primary teachers have similar flexibility to take their PPA time off-site, with ring-fenced mornings or afternoons timetabled each week. Our central services support teams have a fixed hybrid approach, ensuring that their high-quality service to academies is never interrupted but allowing remote working on negotiated days of the week. They have an enhanced annual leave entitlement of 8 weeks, which we encourage them to take in term breaks.  

  • Free Healthcare Provision: Access to fully-paid membership of an award-winning private healthcare provider to provide additional support. Access to a range of services, including 24/7 GP and mental health helplines, physiotherapy, medical diagnostics and treatment, cancer support, wellness courses, articles, and webinars.  

  • Confidential Employee Support: Confidential mental health, wellbeing and financial support, plus dedicated mental health and wellbeing leads.

  • Celebrating Success: We recognise staff who go the extra mile; it is part of our DNA. We offer awards through a peer and leader-nominated ‘shout out’ scheme, appreciation events, well-being events and celebrations.   

  • Special Leave: Special parental leave, part-paid paternity leave and enhancements to maternity leave are offered as well as a day available each year that staff can pre-book for special occasions. We believe in meeting our staff where they are, supporting exam leave, sabbatical leave and other personal requirements.  

  • Employee Referral Scheme: our people promote our culture best. We pay a referral fee when a staff member recommends someone who goes on to be successfully appointed into a shortage role.  

For more information on Staff Benefits, download the booklet below.