8 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2026

  • Closing date

    10 June 2026 at 9am

  • Date listed

    2 June 2026

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term - 31/08/2027

Pay scale

M1 - M6

What skills and experience we're looking for

St Michael’s is a small rural community school. We aim to recruit hardworking,

dedicated teachers who are passionate about making a difference to children’s

lives, people who challenge themselves to keep on improving. This means our

working relationships can be relatively relaxed and informal. People love working at

St Michael’s; we are warm, welcoming, positive, supportive and always looking

forward with the two other community schools we collaborate with. You will have to

work hard but only on the things that make a difference to the children we teach and

nurture.

You will be joining a small team that makes the best use of our environment to

ensure high quality learning outcomes. As a community school (we are not a

Church of England School) we have pupils from the village of Withyham and the

surrounding area (20 minutes away from Tunbridge Wells).

All are welcome including those with a faith and those with none. We work together

to foster children who are academically successful as well as compassionate,

curious and collaborative.

We are looking for a teacher who:

  • Has a proven record of success and expertise in empowering children to

make rapid progress.

  • Demonstrates optimism about children and expects the highest possible

learning standards.

  • Nurtures pupils’ emotional wellbeing to ensure successful educational

outcomes.

We offer you:

  • Sensible and successful systems, based on research, with a commitment to

reduce workload.

  • Carefully targeted training to help grow your teaching skills.
  • A positive, warm and welcoming working environment.
  • Experienced, intelligent, lively colleagues. • A fantastic rural location in Sussex.


What the school offers its staff

  • Sensible and successful systems, based on research, with a commitment to reduce workload.

  • Carefully targeted training to help grow your teaching skills.
  • A positive, warm and welcoming working environment.

• Experienced, intelligent, lively colleagues. • A fantastic rural location in Sussex.

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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About St Michael's Primary School

School type
Local authority maintained schools, Does not apply, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary school
School size
73 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01892 770307

We are a small Community School with wonderful children, dedicated staff, a strong Governing Body and supportive parents. St Michael’s is set in a beautiful village, offering each child high quality learning opportunities. Our strength is our size, we know each child as an individual, ensuring teaching and learning meets the needs and interests of each pupil.

Our mission statement is 'learning and growing together'. As well as high quality teaching, we offer a broader curriculum related to the local countryside. We grow herbs by the school entrance for use in cookery lessons, We have a well-tended school garden and we sell produce after school on Fridays to the community during the growing season.

Arranging a visit to St Michael's Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@st-michaels.e-sussex.sch.uk.

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