Class Teacher
Henleaze Junior School, Bristol, BS9 4LGDeadline is today
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
21 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
30 April 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Monday to Friday, 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Fixed term - one year
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650 - £43,607
Pay scale
- Main Pay Scale
What skills and experience we're looking for
About You
We need someone who is positive and aspirational and believes wholeheartedly in our Trust leadership values: Reflective, Collaborative, Creative
You will have a proven track record in:
- positive impact on pupil outcomes
- working effectively in a team
- proactive personal and/or professional development
More information about the Trust, School and Role
- To find out more about this role, please read the job description and person specification.
- To find out more about Cathedral Schools Trust and Henleaze Junior School, please read the attached Recruitment pack or visit our websites:
○ https://www.cathedralschoolstrust.org/
○ henleazejuniorschool.co.uk
- Informal enquiries and school visits can be made via email via the School Administrator office@henleazejuniorschool.org
What the school offers its staff
About Us
Cathedral Schools Trust (CST) is a family of schools committed to inspiring learning both in and beyond the classroom. With a strong focus on music and the creative arts, we support every student and staff member in reaching their full potential. If you’re looking for a Trust that values creativity, growth, and meaningful learning, CST could be the perfect place for you.
We invite you to join our team at Henleaze Junior School, where we pride ourselves on being a welcoming and supportive place to work. Our nurturing ethos begins with the child’s very first experiences of school, ensuring every child feels safe, valued, and supported to reach their potential. We are highly committed to inclusion and ambitious for all children. We are set in a spacious, green site in the heart of our local community with easy access to the city centre, offering a range of enrichment opportunities to support our broad curriculum.
We benefit from being a campus with separate Infant and Junior Schools, allowing staff to develop phase specialisms, with opportunities for working across the whole Primary age range. To enable you to reach your full potential, a wide range of continuing professional leadership development opportunities will be available to you in addition to the regular, planned collaboration with colleagues within our Trust family.
As part of our dedicated, forward-thinking team, you’ll play a vital role in guiding children through their early education, supporting curiosity, confidence, and developing a love of learning.
Positive relationships are central to our ethos, so we encourage you to visit us to find out more.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an inspirational class teacher to join our committed and supportive team.
If you join us, a typical term in this role would see you involved in:
- planning and delivering active and engaging teaching and learning across the entire curriculum
- leading a curriculum subject or area of responsibility
- supporting parent/carer engagement sessions
- taking part in year group collaborative planning with school and Trust colleagues
As well as the chance to join staff or community social events.
We can offer you
- Employee assistance programme, offering counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
- Discounted gym membership, Cycle-to-work scheme, Eyesight test vouchers
- Henleaze, as well as many of our Trust schools, are easily accessible using public transport. For staff members who drive, we offer free onsite parking.
- Flexible working, fully supported and enhanced family friendly policies
- All new staff are automatically enrolled in the Teacher’s Pension or LGPS Avon Pension Fund.
Further details about the role
Visit dates:
Monday 12 May at 4:15pm and Tuesday 20 May at 4:15pm. Please email the school office office@henleazejuniorschool.org to book a visit or phone 0117 377 2444.
How to apply - please follow the link to Cathedral Schools Trust website.
We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. If you are excited about this role and can demonstrate many but not all of the requirements on the job description and/or person specification, we would encourage you to apply as you may just be the person we are looking for.
- Please complete our application form by Midnight on Wednesday 21 May 2025
- Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview on Wednesday 04 June 2025 at Henleaze Junior School
- All candidates will be advised of the outcome of their application following the closing date
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Henleaze Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 349 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Henleaze Junior School website
- Email address
- office@henleazejuniorschool.org
- Phone number
- 0117 377 2444
Henleaze Junior School is located in north west Bristol, part of Cathedral Schools Trust.
We are a three-form entry school, reducing to two-form entry over the next 5 years. We have strong, collaborative relationships with our partner infant school and Claremont Special School located on the same campus.
Arranging a visit to Henleaze Junior School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@henleazejuniorschool.org.
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