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Class Teacher

Breadsall Hill Top Primary School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 4ET

This job expired on 11 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  11 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £33,483.00

Class Teacher job summary

Class Teacher – maternity leave cover

Required from September 2025

Full Time

Main Scale Points 1-2

 

Are you driven by the passionate belief that an excellent schooling is the right of every child?

Are you excited about being instrumental in developing young people’s potential?

Are you committed to the transformational potential of education to shape lives and futures?

 

If so, we would love to hear from you!

Breadsall Hill Top Primary is seeking to appoint a Year 4 Teacher to cover a Maternity Leave and join our existing team. We are looking for an excellent teaching practitioner with, not only high expectations of pupil progress, but also a drive for self-development. The successful applicant will be joining our Key Stage 2 team and play a key role in our two-form entry school, not only in raising attainment, but most importantly helping our children to be happy, safe and secure and creating great memories for our children.

There is a new Head Teacher starting in September, following the retirement of the current post holder. So you would be joining Breadsall at an exciting time as we continue to work hard to be the school of choice for our community and provide our children with the highest quality education that enables them to fulfil their potential, discover new talents and develop a love for learning.

We are looking for an inspirational teacher who is committed to creating a stimulating learning environment through excellent classroom practice and a passion for delivering great teaching and learning. Our work place behaviours place considerable value on taking responsibility, working together, striving for better, caring for people and being fair.

You will:

·       Be a consistently good or better primary early careers teacher with secure evidence-based understanding of what makes great teaching

·       Be reflective, enjoy challenge and embrace support

·       Be passionate about teaching and learning and driven by making a difference to every child

·       Care passionately about children and their holistic development whilst still driving forward pupil progress and achievement

·       Support the capacity of the school as we seek rapid improvement across all key stages

·       Value a team working approach and be keen to contribute and share your skills with colleagues to add value to BHTP

·       Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills

·       Place a high premium on the importance of relationships and be able to build on and maintain strong relationships with staff, parents and carers, children, governors and the local and wider community

·       Be willing to commit to enhancing our after-school programme of enrichment

In return we offer:

·       A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven towards continuously raising standards and delivering the best outcomes for BHTP children

·       Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of ECT network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives

·       Calm and purposeful learning environments

·       Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community

·       A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school

·       Opportunities for career progression as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust

 

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity and what Breadsall Hill Top Primary has to offer, or indeed arrange a visit, please telephone Matt Lawrence, Head Teacher, on 01332 341451.

*Visits are strongly encouraged and the posts are suitable for an ECT 1 or 2 teacher.

 

How to apply

Please visit http://www.transformtrust.co.uk/vacancies/ and complete the online application form. 

 

If you have any questions or queries, please contact Lizzie Harrison at Breadsall Hill Top Primary School, St Andrew's View, Derby. DE21 4ET. email: elizabeth.harrison@bhtp.derby.sch.uk

Telephone number 01332 341451

Closing date for applications and shortlisting: Friday 11^th July 2025 (9am)

Interviews: w/c 14^th July 2025

Visits are strongly encouraged.

Transform Trust is a Multi Academy Trust with over 9300 children in 26 Primary Schools covering Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Derby. Joining us, you will be part of an ambitious and innovative organisation. We promote the autonomy and local nature of each of our schools and we are an enabling organisation rather than a directive one.

 

We believe education has the power to transform lives and communities. Our Vision is to provide high quality education and deliver the best outcomes for children.

We are partners in East Midlands Maths Hub, Derby Research School, Inspiring Leaders and Challenge Partners.

 

We can offer you:

 

·       Unrivalled opportunities for professional development through our schools and Transform Teaching School Alliance

·       Trust support networks

·       Staff benefits such as 24/7/365 employee welfare support; tax saving salary sacrifice schemes; a staff benefits scheme that offers a host of benefits and discounts

·       Annual staff survey to allow you to provide us with feedback on what it’s like to work for us

·       Annual children’s/staff awards which celebrates the successes and achievements of our children and staff

 

For more information about us please watch the Transform film at www.transformtrust.co.uk

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Transform Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures and pre-employment background checks, including satisfactory references, medical, Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list clearance, online and social media checks and completion of relevant safeguarding training including Safeguarding Children in Education.

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About Breadsall Hill Top Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 416 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Breadsall Hill Top Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/breadsall-hill-top-primary-school-derby

Breadsall is a warm and caring community housed in extensive grounds with 6 separate classroom blocks, 2 halls and a number of intervention spaces.

As a team we constantly strive to achieve the very best for you and your child in order to create successful and happy children. Education is a partnership between home and school and we place a great deal of emphasis on our relationship with parents. We believe that children learn best when home and school work together for their benefit.

Our RESPECT code and vision is a living and breathing representation of our school where expectations of ALL pupils are the highest for Learning, Behaviour, Attendance and Punctuality. As a learning community we are committed to providing only the best quality teaching and learning opportunities both in the classroom and outdoors. We have an exciting and engaging curriculum based on a cross curricular approach, which aims to link thinking across subject areas and also develop positive learning behaviours and key skills for life-long learning.

We are a growing school, we know our children well and acknowledge that building positive relationships coupled with high expectations and high quality learning are the keys to success. However parents/carers are important partners in every child’s education and with our support we actively encourage and expect parents/carers to engage in supporting their child’s learning.

Please visit our website https://www.bhtp.co.uk/welcome/ which gives you a flavour of what our wonderful school has to offer, if you have any questions please contact the school office. But don’t simply take our word for it – come and see for yourself; we would be delighted to show you around.

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