Class Teacher EYFS
Whittle Academy, Coventry, West Midlands, CV2 2LH9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
23 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 June 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Monday to Friday, 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650 - £43,607
Pay scale
- MPR - ECTs welcome to apply
What skills and experience we're looking for
About the role
We are looking for a Class teacher who will be responsible for creating a positive and inclusive classroom environment, ensuring that each child’s academic, social, and emotional needs are met.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has Qualified Teacher Status
- Is dedicated to our vision that all children are entitled to a first-class education.
- Has experience of promoting positive behaviour conductive to learning and which is focused on raising standards.
- Possesses a genuine belief that all children are equal and celebrates the diversity in our school communities.
All staff are expected to know what to do if they have concerns about a child, take on the responsibility for providing a safe environment and promoting children’s welfare, undertake regular safeguarding and child protection training and, familiarise themselves with KCSIE part 1 and local policies and procedures as directed by the trust/academy.
What the school offers its staff
About us
Whittle Academy is a primary school located in Coventry. The school focuses on providing a nurturing and inclusive environment that supports both academic and personal development. With a commitment to high standards of teaching and learning, Whittle Academy encourages creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility among its students. The school also offers a range of extracurricular activities to help children develop new skills and interests, aiming to prepare them for future success.
We are a vibrant and happy one-form entry school, sustaining ‘Good’ when visited by Ofsted in January 2024. Pupils are a credit to the school and are excellent ambassadors. They are right to be proud of their school. Parents say that Whittle Academy is a very special place.
We are a member of Inspire Education Trust, a Coventry-based multi-academy trust which sets out to provide an environment where both staff and students can thrive and put children at the heart of everything we do.
Flexible working opportunities
Why work for us?
A career at Inspire Education Trust offers a rewarding future, with the opportunity to make a real impact on the lives and outcomes of our young people. We work hard to provide an environment which places staff wellbeing at the forefront of the agenda, as well as providing ample opportunities for personal and professional development.
As such, we offer a portfolio of benefits designed to enhance and support the working lives of our staff. These include, but are not limited to:
- A highly supportive and committed senior leadership team
- Employee Assistance Programme which offers 24/7 confidential advice and support on a range of matters and free access to accredited counsellors
- A focus on staff wellbeing including a network of wellbeing champions and a supportive working environment
- Opportunity to join a committed and forward-thinking team of staff
- Employee Benefits platform providing staff access to a range of benefits such as shopping discounts
Further details about the role
How to apply:
All applications must be received electronically via our TES page: https://www.tes.com/jobs/employer/whittle-academy-1080441
If you experience any problems with the online application process please contact TES directly: recruitment@tes.com
If you have any queries about the post, please email chris.eales@whittleacasdemy.org
Closing date: 9am Monday 23rd June 2025
Interview date: W/C Monday 30th June 2025
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and appointments will be subject to rigorous safeguarding checks including enhanced DBS and references. The postholder must share our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted will be asked to complete a self-declaration to confirm any (non-protected) criminal disclosures or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
The post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
We aim to recruit the very best staff and welcome those from all backgrounds, communities and faiths (including non-faith individuals). Inspire Education Trust is clear about its responsibilities in embracing diversity and ensuring we recruit people of a high calibre based on their skills, abilities, and experience. As such, we welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates.
The role of Class Teacher will be classed as regulated activity. Any offer of employment will be conditional until satisfactory completion of all mandatory pre-employment checks. It is an offence to apply for this role if barred from engaging in regulating activity relevant to children.
Following recommendations from Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) for an additional pre-employment check, with the effect of 1st September 2022, please note an online search may form part of this recruitment process.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Whittle Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 253 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Whittle Academy website
- Email address
- catherine.alexander-gamble@ietrust.org
- Phone number
- 02476223542
Arranging a visit to Whittle Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email catherine.alexander-gamble@ietrust.org.
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