Class Teacher

Laceyfields Academy, Heanor, Derbyshire, DE75 7HJ

35 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 October 2025

• Closing date

  3 September 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  29 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £6,330.00 - £8,825.00 Annually (Actual) The salary advertised is based on working 7.4 hours a week. The FTE salary is £31,650 - £44,126.

Class Teacher job summary

We have a strong ethos of continuing professional development across every team at Djanogly Learning Trust. Leaders know that children succeed because of the commitment, knowledge and professionalism of our team who provide high quality learning experiences.

We are looking for creative and enthusiastic Class Teacher to join our team here at Laceyfields Academy. We need professionals who are committed to providing a creative curriculum which supports all children to learn effectively. Everyone who visits us comments on the calm atmosphere, the enthusiasm our children have for learning and the great sense of team amongst staff and children alike.

We need teachers who:

• have high expectations for themselves, colleagues and all children
  
• are committed to providing high quality, creative learning experiences for all
  
• have excellent communication skills
  
• have a strong belief in positive behaviour management
  
• are innovative and creative
  
• know that we are all learners and are committed to continued professional development
  
• have a good sense of humour (it helps!)
  

In return we offer you:

• a professional and supportive team intent on continued improvement for all
  
• a positive working environment where everyone is valued
  
• a purposeful environment where good behaviour and good manners are a priority
  
• high quality professional support and development
  
• a full day for planning and assessment every week for all class teachers
• a 2 year programme of support if you are an ECT
  
• real commitment to work-life balance – we remember we are human beings first and teachers second!
• Great trust benefits including: company paid healthcare, travel discounts and excellent training and development opportunities

Visits to the academy are positively encouraged. Please phone or email to arrange a mutually convenient appointment. Find out if we’re right for you!

For further details of this position, please see the attached job description.

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

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Laceyfields Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 82 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Laceyfields Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/laceyfields-academy

Situated on a Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire boarder our infant school joined the Djanogly Learning Trust family in January 2019.

At Laceyfields Academy we all strive to be Heroes in everything we do!

Helpful
Engaged
Resilient
Organised
Eager
Superstars!

We seek to create a happy, caring and challenging learning environment in which all members of the school community can grow in confidence and develop to their full potential through a stimulating, creative curriculum.

The School’s Aims are:
1. To value and recognise the uniqueness and achievement of all members of our school community.
2. To promote British Values and attitudes of care, tolerance, trust and respect within the school and wider locality.
3. To nurture and support all abilities, helping every child to achieve their potential in all areas of learning- intellectual, emotional, physical, social, moral, spiritual and cultural.
4. To ensure high quality teaching and learning which stimulates positive models of enquiry, reflection, and challenge.
5. To equip children with resilience and perseverance to become creative and independent thinkers in order to develop as life-long learners.

Values:
British Values taught and promoted at Laceyfields Academy are:
Respect (including respect for beliefs, faiths, cultures and the environment), Tolerance, Democracy, The Rule of Law and Individual Liberty.

We take every opportunity to actively promote these values in a variety of ways both within and beyond the taught curriculum. It is expected that all staff, pupils, parents, governors and other stakeholders in the community will also actively promote these values.

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