Class Teacher Early Years
Handsworth Primary School, London, E4 9PJ62 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
16 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - One Year
Pay scale
- M1-M6
Additional allowances
Opportunity for Early Years/KS1 English Lead
TLR2B
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will be a committed, qualified teacher and will have:
- outstanding and innovative Early Years classroom practice with a commitment to ensuring the highest standards
- motivation, creativity and the ability to work as part of a team
- commitment to work in partnership with parents and the community
- excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Early Years Class Teacher Job Description
Directly Responsible to: Headteacher
Main Purpose of Job and Principal Accountabilities: (1) Liaison and Co-operation
The teacher will work in liaison, contact and co-operation with:
- other members of staff
- members of Borough support and advisory services
- organisations and networks relevant to the teacher's specialism or subject
- parents, governors and the local community
(2) Policy and Legal Framework
The teacher will work within the framework of:
- National legislation, including Education Acts, and the School teachers Pay and Conditions Act
- school policies and guidelines on the curriculum and school organisation
- Borough policies in particular those relating to curricular aims and principles, and to race and gender equality
(3) Tasks and Duties
The Pay and Conditions Act lists the duties to be included in all Job Descriptions for teachers. The following statement is intended to incorporate all the duties itemised in Schedule 3 of the Act, and any subsequent statutory instruments made under the Act. The tasks and duties listed in section 3 (i-xii) below are required for all teachers. These may be reviewed at least once a year, usually in the Summer Term.
(i) Planning To plan and prepare schemes of work and individual lessons, appropriate to the needs, interests, experience and existing knowledge of the pupils in one's class. To adapt provision to ensure inclusive teacher practice.
(ii) Setting and supervising work by pupils To teach a class, or classes, sets, groups or individual pupils, and to set tasks to be undertaken both at school and elsewhere.
(iii) Marking and recording To assess pupils' work, offer feedback and record their development, progress and attainment.
(iv) Discipline and relationships To maintain positive behaviour, discipline and respect for others among pupils; to promote understanding of the school's rules and values; to safeguard health and safety; and to develop professional relations conducive to optimum learning.
(v) Communication with parents To build and maintain co-operative relationships with parents, and to communicate with them on pupils' learning and progress, drawing attention to special skills and talents as well as difficulties or gaps in learning to be addressed.
(vi) The Classroom To maintain an attractive and stimulating classroom environment, and to contribute to displays in the school as a whole.
(vii) Overall policy and review To take part in whole-school reviews of policy and aims, and in the revision formulation of guidelines.
(viii) Reports To provide or contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references, both at school and elsewhere, relating to the development and learning of individual pupils and groups of pupils.
(ix) Review To evaluate and review one's own teaching methods, materials and schemes of work, and to make changes as appropriate.
(x) Professional development To keep up-to-date with current educational thinking and practice, both by study and by attendance at courses, workshops and meetings, and take part in appraisals and reviews of one's work arranged by the Headteacher.
(xi) Corporate life To take part in the corporate life of the school by, for example, attending and leading assemblies, registering the attendance of pupils, and supervising pupils before and after school sessions.
(xii) Equality policies To help ensure that subject-matter and learning resources reflect Borough and school policies on race and gender equality, and that the implications of these policies are borne in mind in relation to all the tasks and duties listed in (i) - (xii) above.
In addition, all school employees are required to:
- Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo a Child protection screening, including checks with past employers (2 successful references) and the Criminal Records Bureau. (An enhanced DBS check)
- To be alert to issues of child protection, ensuring that the welfare and safety of children attending the School/Nursery is promoted and safeguarded and to report any child protection concerns to the Headteacher (Designated Safeguarding Lead) using safeguarding policies procedures and practice.
- Prevent, identify and minimise risk of interpersonal abuse or violence, safeguarding children and other vulnerable people, initiating the management of cases involving actual or potential abuse or violence where needed
- Be aware of and update colleagues, as appropriate to comply with current legislation and policies affecting practice, e.g. Children’s Act, National Service Frameworks, Child Protection Procedures, Health and Safety and Data Protection.
- Have a full commitment to the Council’s Equal Opportunities Policy and acceptance of personal responsibility for its practical application. All employees are required to comply with and promote the policy and to ensure that discrimination is eliminated in the service of the Authority.
- Uphold and comply with the statutory provisions of the Health and Safety at Work Act and any other associated legislation or Council Policies and procedures.
What the school offers its staff
Handsworth is a happy, thriving learning community where diversity is celebrated and high aspirations are encouraged. We believe in the importance of motivating and inspiring our children to enable them to be confident, curious and ambitious. We can offer you a friendly, popular school with motivated learners, the opportunity to work with a dedicated team of staff and governors and excellent CPD & mentoring.
At Handsworth, we are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and opposing all forms of discrimination in relation to all protected characteristics outlined in the Equality Act.
We foster positive attitudes and good relationships, creating a shared sense of cohesion and belonging. We consult and involve our whole school community. We invest in training for all our staff and base our practices on evidence and on the outcomes of our continuous learning. We are committed to embedding anti-racist practice in everything we do.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion objectives for this year are to:
- Place a rigorous focus on diversity, equality and inclusion through a contextually relevant, holistic curriculum.
- Teach an increasingly decolonised curriculum which celebrates the uniqueness of all children.
- Continue to offer intelligent, fair and highly effective action to support individual children with a focus on restorative practice.
- Refine and develop our recruitment process at all levels to ensure that it is fair and unbiased.
We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our staff.
We foster positive attitudes and good relationships, creating a shared sense of cohesion and belonging. We consult and involve our whole school community in decision-making. We invest in training for all our staff and base our practices on evidence and the outcomes of our continuous learning. We are committed to embedding anti-racist practices in everything we do.
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
About Handsworth Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 445 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Handsworth Primary School website
- Email address
- school@handsworth.waltham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02085275991
Handsworth Primary is a multicultural two-form entry school with its own nursery, situated in Highams Park in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. There are 445 pupils in our school. At the heart of our practice is the belief that highly effective relationships between staff and children provide a strong foundation of trust. We strive to create a culture of resilience; embracing the learning that takes place from making mistakes and celebrating our challenges and successes.
We are committed to providing a safe, secure and stimulating environment for our children, where everyone can develop their skills and talents in a variety of ways. We constantly reflect and monitor our progress and understand the importance of staff development.
Arranging a visit to Handsworth Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email school@handsworth.waltham.sch.uk.
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