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**Experiences**
- Experience Successful classroom teaching, with recent Nursery and Reception experience.
- Working with children with English as an Additional Language/SEN.
- Experience in contributing to and developing whole school initiatives.

**Skills/Abilities**
- Up to date knowledge of the EYFS Curriculum
- Awareness of the current issues in primary education including:

- Curriculum structure
- Assessment and planning
- School improvement research and strategies
- Good management practice Local and national policy
- Experience of analysing EYFS baseline and end of year assessment date. Understanding the importance of target setting in raising standards and holding others to account

**Leadership and Management**
- Manage staff, systems and resources
- Initiate and manage change
- Plan strategically and prioritise
- Direct and coordinate the work of others
- Motivate and inspire
- Set standards/act as a role model
- Resolve conflict

**Decision Making**
- Be creative and solve problems
- Analyse and interpret information
- Make decisions based on relevant data/information

**Communication Skills**
- Excellent inter-personal skills
- Communicate effectively, in writing and orally, with a range of audiences
- Deal sensitively with others, including parents
- Negotiate, consult and influence

**SelfManagement**
- Manage time and prioritise
- Work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Work to challenging targets
- Take responsibility for own professional development

**Education and training**
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Evidence of on-going continual professional development

**Personal Attributes**
- Adaptability/flexibility
- Energy, vigour and perseverance
- Boundless enthusiasm,good humour and an appetite for challenging work
- Self-confidence
- Reliability
- Commitment
- Personal impact and presence
- Sense of humour

**OTHER**:

- To comply with, adhere to, and actively support school policies and procedures.
- To carry out any other duties that are commensurate with the role and as instructed by PBISS management.
- To assist with other duties within PBISS if required.
- To adhere to the PBISS’s Health and Safety policies and procedures and to perform any school wide designated duties with regard to Health and Safety and the security of the school.
- Other projects/duties as assigned for the overall benefit of the organisation. This job description serves as a guide to the general duties of the role and may be reviewed on an ongoing basis.

**Benefits**

Visa support

Payment of work permit and visa.

Professional Development

We have a structured professional development programme, with a strong emphasis on applied educational psychology and cognitive science. In addition there is a culture of sharing best practices informally within departments made possible thanks to our staff commitment to confidentiality that protects the work and skills of our staff while benefiting our students.

For all staff, there are frequent observations and discussions to identify development opportunities and create tailored professional development. Teachers joining the profession are supported as they find their feet, and anyone wanting to gain QTS or PGCE qualifications are given significant help and resources.

**Further Benefits**:

- Participation in a provident-style security plan
- Accident and health insurance
- Visa and Work Permit advice services
- School fee reduction
- Quality of life: with its coastal location, Koh Samui offers a healthy living environment with, for example, a good air quality as compared to most continental towns and cities

**About PBISS**

PBISS implements its own pedagogic approach, Cambridge x STEM+, which is designed to develop cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, as well as desirable traits, such as curiosity, through hands-on, active learning. From an academic standpoint, we are outcome oriented with the goal to foster students’ drive and ability to acquire new knowledge. While Cambridge international curriculum is what we do, our internally built and constantly evolving STEM+ approach is how we do it.

PBISS community is often described as a home away from home. We are situated in Koh Samui, a beautiful and welcoming tropical island that offers excellent quality of life. Palm-fringed beaches, coconut groves and dense, mountainous rainforest are just across the street, and 1 hour from Bangkok by plane.

PBISS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo background screening appropriate to the post.

We are committed to creating and sustaining an environment that values and celebrates the diversity of both staff and pupils. We believe in equal opportunity for everyone, irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or socio-economic background.

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