Class Teacher

Hockliffe Lower School, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 9LL

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  8 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  24 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £49,083.00 Annually (FTE) TMS/UPS

Class Teacher job summary

HOCKLIFFE LOWER SCHOOL

Class Teacher (MPS/UPS)

To start September 2025

Hockliffe Lower School is a small lower school for children aged 4 to 9 and is part of the Kingsbridge Educational Trust. This is an outstanding opportunity for an excellent practitioner to join the Trust as a class teacher at the school, which is in a beautiful rural setting in Hockliffe, Central Bedfordshire. The vision for the school curriculum is to enable all children to make positive life and learning choices so they can succeed.

The school has a capacity of 75. Reception is taught as a standalone class while KS1 are taught as a class as are KS2. We are looking for a teacher with KS2 experience, you do not have to have experience at teaching mixed year groups.

We are looking for a dedicated, dynamic and creative colleague committed to team-working and developing excellence for our pupils. Excellent conditions of service will be offered.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a proven track record of excellent teaching;
• Have high expectations of our children in all aspects of school life;
• Have the ability to forge and maintain positive working relationships with children and their families;
• Be ambitious for themselves and the school;
• Be supportive of the school’s vision to enable all children to make positive life and learning choices so they can succeed.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact the school office at office@hockliffelowerschool.co.uk.

Applications to be made through My New Term via the link on the school website: https://www.hockliffelowerschool.co.uk/school/recruitment.

Closing date for applications is midday on Thursday 8th May 2025

Interviews to be held w/c 12th May 2025.

Kingsbridge Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required for this post prior to commencement.

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 Hockliffe Lower School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 9
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 65 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 9
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hockliffe Lower School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hockliffe-lower-school-leighton-buzzard

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