Class Teacher (Maternity Cover)
Cockernhoe Endowed CofE Primary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 8PY24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
November 2025
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £43,607.00 Annually (Actual)
Class Teacher (Maternity Cover) job summary
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your career in a nurturing village primary school, working with a friendly and talented staff team?
We are seeking to appoint a talented, enthusiastic and creative Class Teacher to join our teaching team, who is willing to contribute to the life of the school, to cover one of our senior teachers who will be taking maternity leave from November.
What we are looking for:
An innovative and creative practitioner who can inspire children to be independent and happy learners who reach aspirational goals.
A teacher who believes in bringing out the best in every pupil and who is committed to helping children to achieve and flourish.
An enthusiastic team member who share the vision of the school
An individual who sees opportunities rather than barriers
You must be:
- A strong practitioner, who can demonstrate and articulate outstanding teaching and learning;
- Passionate about making a difference for every child;
- A team player, developing and maintaining positive and supportive professional relationships with children, staff, parents and governors.
- Set and maintain high expectations for everyone in the school
- Knowledgeable about the New National Curriculum
We can offer:
- Motivated, enthusiastic and well behaved children;
- Small Class sizes
- Supportive staff, parents and governors;
- A well-resourced school;
- A strong, caring Christian ethos where all are valued;
- Opportunities for professional development
- An idyllic village setting
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged, so please telephone the school office to make an appointment for the Headteacher to show you around.
Cockernhoe is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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.
About Cockernhoe Endowed CofE Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 78 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Cockernhoe Endowed CofE Primary School website
School location
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