Class Teacher

Oakway Academy, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 4SD

17 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  11 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 32,916.00 - 45,352.00

Class Teacher job summary

CLASS TEACHER

Oakway Academy, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Main Pay Range

Full time

Full STPC & continuous local government service*

Required for September 2026

 

‘Every Moment Matters’

 

Ready to make a real impact as a Class Teacher? Join Oakway Academy and help shape our pupils’ continued success. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact and contribute to the strong, sustained achievement of Oakway Academy and its pupils.

 

In January 2023, Ofsted confirmed that we are a ‘Good’ school. They said “The staff care deeply about all of its pupils” and “The school has high expectations for behaviour...Behaviour is good in lessons and on the playground.”

What can you expect when joining Oakway Academy, a member of Hatton Academies Trust?

·      Children who are full of PRIDE for our Academy.

·      Excellent professional development and guidance with potential for planned future career progression across all of our primary academies (eg an induction programme & mentor for all new staff, NPQML and NPQSL)

·      Team PPA – no teacher is left to plan alone

·      Commitment to an Instructional coaching programme based around high quality peer support

·      A team of dedicated support staff to enhance Teaching and Learning.

·      Excellent employee benefits and well-being initiatives (eg Care First, discounted gym membership)

·      A clear leadership vision, with high quality professional learning for all teachers and leaders.

·      A supportive and collegiate staff team, working together to improve outcomes for all children.

Do you have ….

·      the ability to deliver high quality teaching and achieve strong outcomes?

·      a passion for learning, with a good understanding of current educational issues?

·      an enthusiasm to engage in the Academy’s enrichment programme?

·      the ability to create a safe and rich learning environment for our children?

·      imagination, drive, determination, ambition and enthusiasm?

·      a commitment to professional development and continual improvement?

 

At Oakway Academy, staff are valued and supported. Here is some feedback from existing colleagues showing how they feel about working at our wonderful academy:

 

“My work colleagues are absolutely amazing and since working in schools for nearly 25 years I have never known such a friendly, compassionate and caring team!”

“All staff have been helping each other to do the best for our school”

“I feel that my ideas are listened to and discussed. I feel that the work I do is recognised and valued”

(Excerpts from Hatton Academies Trust People Wellbeing Survey 2023)

 

 

To apply for this vacancy, please go to our website, where you will find a job description and further details about the post and the academy: https://www.hattonacademiestrust.org.uk/working-for-us/vacancies/  

 

Closing date: 9.00am Monday 11th May 2026

 

Interview to take place in the week commencing 18th May 2026.

 

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to act on received applications before the closing date has passed.

 

Our recruitment processes help us understand what you uniquely contribute. Submissions that rely too heavily on AI risk obscuring the very qualities we are looking to discover. If you use AI, let it support your thinking, not replace it.

Education without limits; Integrity at all times

Hatton Academies Trust are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from appropriately qualified persons regardless of gender, race, religion, disability or age. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants are required to complete an enhanced Disclosure Bureau Service check and any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references.

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 Oakway Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 579 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oakway Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oakway-academy

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