Our commitment to colleagues
We want our people to know just how much they are valued at CAM, which is why we have carefully designed our people entitlement to reflect the things our staff say they care about the most.
We know that across education, people feel time poor. They can feel that schools are inflexible places to work. And that it can feel hard to find time for quality training and career support. Our people entitlement aims to address those challenges with a series of commitments to every member of staff.
Benefits & wellbeing
Our work in schools is to help every child develop and reach their potential. The same applies for our people – we want every CAM colleague to feel backed and invested in.
Our offer includes:
- Free and fast access to online GP appointments
- An Employee Assistance Programme through Perkbox, including counselling, wellbeing support, a health and fitness app and shopping discount scheme
- Professional supervision made available for all colleagues in pastoral roles, so everyone feels they have the support they need through challenging experiences
- Regular workload reviews
- Regular communication and updates so colleagues stay informed and connected
- A Teaching & Learning and Inclusion portal, where key documents and resources are shared across the organisation to support collaboration
- A generous pension scheme together with free legal and financial advice, including mortgage support
- A focus on recognition: Long Service and Community Awards, celebrating the brilliant work that people do, day in day out
- Signposting to the Blue Light Card discount scheme, available for all eligible colleagues
Flexibility
We believe that flexibility should be part of working life wherever it can be, recognising that different roles and different people have different needs.
Our approach includes:
- A strong commitment to flexible working at all levels, including term-time only roles, part-time working and flexible patterns for both teaching and non-teaching colleagues wherever operationally feasible
- A commitment to allowing remote working as standard for teaching staff during PPA time where operationally appropriate
- Access to the Maternity Teacher/Paternity Teacher programme, providing fully funded professional development and coaching for colleagues with children aged 0–5
Professional development
We invest in our people because great schools are built by colleagues who continue to learn and develop at every stage of their career. We offer a range of opportunities for professional development and growth for both teaching and non-teaching staff.
They include:
- A high-quality leadership development programme. This includes a bespoke programme for aspiring principals and a future leaders’ programme open to anyone who has ambitions to become a leader, both for teaching and non-teaching colleagues
- Trust-wide professional networks to enable colleagues to collaborate, share expertise and shape strategic priorities
- A comprehensive leadership induction programme for new leaders
- A personalised development plan as part of the appraisal cycle
- Training on the use of AI and investment in AI to support functionality in schools
- Additional INSET opportunities that enable all colleagues, including support staff, to access professional learning
- Mentoring, coaching and shadowing opportunities to support career development
- A strong commitment to apprenticeship training, providing structured opportunities for non-teaching staff to gain recognised qualifications, develop specialist expertise and progress their careers within CAM
Time
We know that time is the biggest challenge facing our staff, whether they work in the classroom, provide vital support in our schools, lead teams or work across our central services. That’s why we offer:
- Generous leave entitlement for support staff, including increased leave for long service (up to 31 days plus bank holidays)
- Additional INSET days for planning and training. At least one of these is disaggregated to provide a ‘wellbeing day’ for staff.
- The option of sabbaticals*
- Published annual meeting schedules and a continued focus on reducing unnecessary meetings
*by agreement with the principal and phase director