Class Teacher

University of Cambridge Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0QZ

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2023

• Closing date

  22 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• 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: MS 1-6

Class Teacher job summary

CLASS TEACHERS

Teaching at our school is amazing

We strive to be better each day in a spirit of collaboration and challenge.

We believe passionately in every child and do everything possible to include them.

Are you ready to fire up the next part of your career journey?

We are a unique school: the only one of its kind in the UK for primary. We read, we debate, we learn and we work hard.

If you think ‘Yes’ then our school is the place for you.

Title: Class Teacher

Responsible to: Executive Headteacher

Don’t just make your career in Cambridge, live it.

Have a look at our websites www.universityprimaryschool.org.uk and www.unlockingresearch.org

The University of Cambridge Primary School is seeking to appoint inspired educators to be key contributors in the development of our new school, which opened in September 2015. We have over 600 children in 2022 and will be a large 3 form school in 2023.

We are seeking applications from successful Key Stage 1 and 2 teachers who can express a passion for children and education. You will be a confident and passionate primary teacher. You will love learning yourself. You will be able to demonstrate high expectations, a flexible and resilient attitude to challenge and commitment to providing irresistible learning opportunities for all children. You will have the interpersonal skills to model empathy, respect, trust, courage, and gratitude within a framework in which everyone is ambitious, innovative and inclusive.

Our Diversities Strategy sets our vision for a truly inclusive school community and we warmly welcome all people from all backgrounds to apply for the post.

All staff are employed by the UTS Cambridge Trust not the University of Cambridge.

Previous unsuccessful applicants need not apply.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 22nd April 2025

Shortlisting: Wednesday 23rd April 2025

Interviews: W/C 28th April 2025

Start date: September 2025

We will be hosting tours for prospective candidates on the following dates:

Monday 31st March 9:30-10:15am

Tuesday 1st April 4:00-4:45pm

Please email enquiries@universityprimaryschool.org.uk if you wish to attend either of these tours.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About University of Cambridge Primary School

• School type: Free School, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 668 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: University of Cambridge Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/university-of-cambridge-primary-school

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