Class Teacher
Walthamstow Primary Academy, London, E17 5DP3 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
27 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 April 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hrs per week 7.5 hrs per day
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Competitive United Learning PayScale (PT1 to PT6 depending on experience/ECT’s are welcome to apply)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Walthamstow Primary Academy is a vibrant and inclusive school dedicated to providing high-quality education and care. Our mission is to foster a love of learning in a nurturing and stimulating environment.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Class Teacher to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering high-quality teaching and learning, creating a positive classroom environment, and supporting the individual needs of students. ECT’s are welcome to apply.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and deliver engaging lessons that meet the national curriculum standards.
- Create a safe, inclusive, and stimulating classroom environment.
- Assess and monitor students' progress, providing constructive feedback to students and parents.
- Collaborate with colleagues to ensure a cohesive approach to teaching and learning.
- Participate in school events, meetings, and professional development opportunities.
Requirements:
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Experience teaching in a primary or secondary school setting.
- Strong understanding of the national curriculum.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
What the school offers its staff
United Learning is a friendly, happy place where everyone is valued and recognised as an individual. We believe that every teacher has the ability to shine. Our pledge, to all our academy teachers, is that by working for us you will benefit from:
More pay...
- We pay on average 5% above national scales - the best rates of pay in the sector
- Cash towards medical treatment
- Generous staff discount scheme
More time...
- Three extra INSET days for planning
- At least one personal day a year
and more support.
- Great training for your career
- Exceptional curriculum resources
- Expert subject advice
- Support for your wellbeing
Benefits:
We will offer you:
- Highly competitive pay above national average.
- 26 days annual leave plus 8 statutory bank holidays per annum.
- An additional day’s paid leave awarded per annum.
- Access to an outstanding professional development programme.
- A respectful working environment.
- Supportive, friendly colleagues who are committed to each other’s professional development.
- A chance to become part of United Learning, one of the largest groups of academies in the country.
- Opportunities to work collaboratively with colleagues in each academy across the Cluster and United Learning.
- Excellent employee benefits which include a highly sought-after pension scheme with high employer contributions.
- Access to training
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), offering mental health and wellbeing support
- Health Cash Plan available to United Learning staff with a minimum of 6 months of service. The plan gives you money back on essential healthcare, from opticians to physiotherapy, and guarantees you 24/7 access to an online GP.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted Gym Membership
- Car lease scheme
- Over 250 exclusive employee benefits through Perk box including free access to online wellness and workout classes, money off your weekly shop, high street purchases, and meals out.
- Eye care vouchers and free flu vaccines
Further details about the role
Visits to the school are welcomed, you can book a visit by emailing the school at hr@walthamstowprimary.org.uk. All visits should take place by the 25th of April 2025.
United Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants. CVs alone will not be considered. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant pre-employment checks.
*A Google search will be undertaken on shortlisted candidates for safer recruitment purposes*
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
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 are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Walthamstow Primary Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 199 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Walthamstow Primary Academy website
- Email address
- hr@walthamstowprimary.org.uk
Walthamstow Primary Academy was established in 2015 as a part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.
Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
Arranging a visit to Walthamstow Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@walthamstowprimary.org.uk.
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