Class Teacher

St Michael's CofE Academy, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 9JA

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  17 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: M1-M6

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Opportunity

At St Michaels CE Academy, we celebrate creativity, collaboration, and continuous growth. We’re looking for dynamic teaching professionals who bring energy, empathy, and innovation to the classroom. Join our vibrant community where your ideas matter, your expertise is valued, and every lesson helps shape confident, lifelong learners

We are looking for someone who is:

• an excellent class teacher with high expectations of all pupils
• a team player, who works well with others
• nurturing and caring
• committed to raising standards
• hard working and enthusiastic

What the school offers its staff

Why join Enhance Academy Trust?

As a Trust, we have developed a range of employee benefits. Here are just a few examples:

• Membership to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Physical and mental health support from a team of experienced nurses, counsellors, therapists, physiotherapists, consultants plus NHS GPs and private medical services.
• GP consultations with experienced NHS doctors are available for ouremployeesand members of their household, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and prescriptions (which have to paid for) can be delivered to local chemists.
• Free annual flu jab
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings
• A paid annual Wellbeing Day – a time for you to use the day for an activity which promotes your own individual health and wellbeing.
• Wherever possible, PPA at home for teachers.

If you are seeking a fresh challenge, enjoy variety in your role and are looking for an opportunity to make a difference, we would welcome your application.

Visits to our Academy are warmly welcomed.

If you would like further information about the role please contact: Yvette Sullivan, Executive Headteacher Yvette.sullivan@stmichaels.enhanceacad.org.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

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people. We expect all staff, volunteers and governors to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.

Offers of employment will be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), medical, online and social media check for shortlisted candidates, prohibition from teaching, right to work, two satisfactory references.

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Recruitment Pack - Teacher.pdf - 225 KB (opens in new tab)

About St Michael's CofE Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 479 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Michael's CofE Academy website
• Email address: Yvette.sullivan@stmichaels.enhanceacad.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-michael-s-cofe-academy

At St Michael’s, we are proud to be a Church of England School. Inclusive and welcoming to all, we celebrate achievement in all its forms and place care and wellbeing at the centre of everything we do. Everyone is nurtured to shine with ambition and to flourish.

High-quality learning opportunities are at the heart of what we do – from academic success to creativity, sport, outdoor learning and personal development. Our extensive grounds and strong SEND provision ensure that every child is supported to thrive and fulfil their potential.

As part of the Enhance Academy Trust, we live out our belief that Together Everyone Achieves More.

Arranging a visit to St Michael's CofE Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Yvette.sullivan@stmichaels.enhanceacad.org.uk.

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