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Welcome to the Blackdown Education Partnership
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Welcome to Blackdown Education Partnership
The Blackdown Education Partnership is a multi-academy trust (MAT) working across Devon and Somerset. It was born of a merger between two established MATs: The Castle Partnership Trust and Uffculme Academy Trust and currently looks after a family of 12 schools: 6 primary and 6 secondary and 4 nurseries.
Blackdown Education Partnership is, therefore, a single organisation established to deliver the education and to safeguard the wellbeing of every child in our Trust. The Partnership seeks to ensure that high quality collaboration and system leadership continue to improve the education in our schools. We are responsible for the good governance of the schools within our Trust and are accountable for the performance of each school. We work with an exceptional team of leaders, teachers and support staff whose combined efforts deliver on our promise to believe in every child.
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CURRENT OPENINGS
Job Title
Kitchen Supervisor
Location
Taunton, Somerset
Posted
10th July 2025
School
The Castle School
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Salary
£22,361
Hours
Full Time, Term Time
Description
Kitchen Supervisor 40 hours per week 6:30am – 3:00pm Monday to Friday (includes an unpaid 30-minute daily lunch break) 38 weeks per year (Term time plus one school INSET day) Cate ...
Job Title
Nursery Practitioner
Location
Taunton, Somerset
Posted
9th July 2025
School
Orchard Grove Primary School
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Salary
£12.65 per hour
Hours
Part Time, Term Time
Description
Join Pioneers Nursery as a Nursery Practitioner for the opportunity to join our exciting venture within Orchard Grove Primary School which opened in September 2024. In our state o ...
Job Title
Nursery Practitioner
Location
Taunton, Somerset
Posted
9th July 2025
School
Orchard Grove Primary School
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Salary
£12.65 per hour
Hours
Full Time
Description
Join Pioneers Nursery as a Nursery Practitioner for the opportunity to join our exciting venture within Orchard Grove Primary School which opened in September 2024. In our state o ...
Job Title
Nursery Practitioner
Location
Wellington, Somerset
Posted
8th July 2025
School
Wellesley Park Primary School
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Salary
Grade 14
Hours
Full Time
Description
Wellesley Park Primary School in Wellington is home to 300 children, including Wellesley Park Explorers Nursery. We are seeking to appoint two outstanding Nursery Practition ...
Job Title
Cover Supervisor
Location
Cullompton, Devon
Posted
8th July 2025
School
Cullompton Community College
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Salary
NJC Grade D Point 7 – 12
Hours
Full Time
Description
We seek to appoint a highly motivated, outstanding practitioner to work as a Cover Supervisor. Applicants should demonstrate the ability to work under the guidance of teachers/sen ...
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What Our People Say
Jemima Moran
Axe Valley Academy
Polly Matthews
Court Fields School
Jon Scott
Holyrood Academy
Susie Fernandez Gomez
Holyrood Academy
Employee Benefits
In return and in recognition of the valuable contribution all our employees make to the work of the Trust, we offer:
- Flexible working opportunities.
- Free car parking.
- Free tea and coffee.
- Access to a range of continuous professional development opportunities.
- Enhanced pay for parents who take time off due to maternity, adoption or paternity leave.
- On site catering facilities, all of which provide healthy and nutritious meals at a low cost.
- Trust wide charity events designed to encourage our people to participate in meaningful activities.
- Cycle to work scheme which enables employees to purchase a bike and accessories for their commute to work.
- Gym membership. Many of our schools have on-site gyms, the use of which is available to employees at a discounted rate.
- The option of joining one of two defined pension schemes, depending on your role, this will either be the Teachers Pension or the Local Government Pension.
- Access to a range of wellbeing provisions, including counselling, cognitive behaviour therapy, physical fitness support and specific health related interventions.
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Our Schools
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Axe Valley Academy
Axminister, Devon
The Castle School
Taunton, Somerset
Court Fields School
Wellington, Somerset
Holyrood Academy
Chard, Somerset
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Primary School
Wellington, Somerset
Neroche Primary School
Ilminster, Somerset
Orchard Grove Primary School
Taunton, Somerset
Uffculme Primary School
Uffculme, Devon
Uffculme School
Uffculme, Devon
Wellesley Park Primary School
Wellington, Somerset
Bishops Hull Primary School
Taunton, Somerset
Cullompton Community College
Cullompton, Devon
Our Mission
Blackdown Education Partnership (the Trust) is a Multi Academy Trust (MAT) whose mission is to enable effective collaboration and partnerships that will support outstanding educational experiences for the pupils attending each of the Trust’s schools and academies.
Our mission is underpinned by our core beliefs and values that:
- To nurture and develop the ambition, talents and interests of every child
- To break down the barriers that inhibit the opportunities and achievements of disadvantaged pupils so that they can go on to lead lives of choice and opportunity
- To create a family of schools that are deeply and purposefully connected to their communities
The Trust is creating and supporting a network of exceptional schools in which:
- each school within the Trust sits at the heart of its community
- aspirations and expectations are high, and achievable, for everyone
- every pupil makes excellent progress and is enabled to achieve ambitious personal targets
- trust and mutual respect are at the core of all the relationships across the Trust
- enrichment is valued, planned for and resourced
- diversity is welcomed and celebrated
- pupil and parental engagement is high
- collaboration and partnerships across the Trust mean that all our staff may apply and develop their skills and experience, and
- teachers enjoy teaching and pupils enjoy learning.