Class Teacher
Featherby Junior School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 6BT24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
29th August 2024
Closing date
11 June 2024 at 12:59am
Date listed
2 May 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS / UPS
Class Teacher job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and inspirational class teacher to begin in September 2024. If you are dedicated and passionate about learning and teaching and want to develop your skills, then this could be the position for you. We are offering a real opportunity to make a positive impact across our school. We welcome applications from both experienced teachers & ECT's .
The position available could be for any year group. This will be decided based on candidate’s experience, interests and the needs of the children in our school.
You will be joining a dedicated and supportive staff, with a Leadership Team committed to developing your career path through extensive opportunities of professional development.
We are looking for teachers who will:
- Put pupils first.
- Have high expectations of all pupils and secure exceptional outcomes for all.
- Be optimistic, energetic, resilient and creative.
- Be active in developing positive relationships with all parents and carers.
- Embrace change and innovation positively and with a good sense of humour.
- Help drive our school forward to outstanding future successes.
- Be an excellent classroom practitioner who can lead by exemplary practice.
The Featherby Partnership consists of Featherby Junior and Featherby Infant and Nursery School, which are both part of the Maritime Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich, Bexley, Kent and Medway. Our academies transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills.
The care and wellbeing of our pupils is a high priority and our children are enthusiastic and hardworking.
You may be required to work across both sites.
In return we offer:
- A positive, friendly and happy working environment
- A fantastic school community all working towards achieving the best for our pupils
- A fully supported induction for ECT's
- National terms and conditions
- Early salary access scheme and financial advice (Wagestream)
- A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
Further information about the Trust and school is available at www.Maritimeacademytrust.org and the attached information pack.
Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. We only accept applications submitted online via the My New Term website and which are completed before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
The Trust and its academies are committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks may be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed.
In line with KCSIE 2023 guidance, as part of the shortlisting process, the Trust reserves the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and to share any pertinent information found concerning a candidate's suitability to work with children with Hiring Managers to be discussed at interview stage
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful DBS clearance and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed.
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About Featherby Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 339 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Featherby Junior School website (opens in new tab)
Featherby Junior School is part of the Maritime Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich and Kent. Our schools transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills.
The Featherby Partnership is made up of 2 schools: Featherby Infant and Nursery and Featherby Junior who are working closely together like one school. We are going forward through an exciting period of change with a new leadership team and a collaborative approach to ensure consistency of high expectations for the whole of the Featherby community. At Featherby you will find a true passion for learning, happy and safe children, a purposeful environment and an inspiring curriculum. We believe these are the key ingredients that make a Featherby child stand out from the rest.
Our vision statement is 'Working together to inspire minds through inclusive and creative practice; aspirations are high for all'. Underpinning this we have our core values of unity, resilience, responsibility, respect, honesty and trust. We are very much a value lead school which underpins our whole approach. Featherby is an inclusive school that supports learners well and encourages them to be independent and take risks in their learning.
We have high expectations of behaviour at Featherby and promote positive praise amongst learners.
Working in collaboration with each other ensures that we build strong relationships with families, children and the wider community to continuously provide children with great learning opportunities!
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