Class Teacher (Maternity Cover)

Featherby Junior School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 6BT

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  4 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  6 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £45,352.00 Annually (FTE) MPS 1-6 /UPR 1 - 3 (MPS £32915 - £45352) (UPR £47472 - £51048)

Class Teacher (Maternity Cover) job summary

Join Featherby Infant & Junior School as a Class Teacher Inspire young minds. Grow your career. Change lives.

Hours: 27.5 hours per week Contract: Fixed Term (Maternity Cover) - 12 months Time Time Only: 39 weeks per year Start Date: January 2026 Actual Salary: MPS / UPR - (MPS £32915 - £45352) (UPR £47472 - £51048)

About The Role

Are you an enthusiastic and inspirational teacher looking for a rewarding new role? Featherby Infant & Nursery School (part of the Maritime Academy Trust) is seeking a Class Teacher to join our dedicated and supportive team. This position is to cover maternity leave, starting in January 2026 for a fixed term of 12 months. This is a fantastic opportunity to:

• Teach and inspire pupils in a nurturing and ambitious infant school community.

• Join a collaborative and friendly staff team committed to high standards.

• Make a real difference during the early years of a child’s education.

While this role is a fixed-term maternity cover, joining the Maritime Academy Trust could open up opportunities across our group of schools in the future.

Who You Are We are looking for teachers who will:

• Put pupils first and secure exceptional outcomes for all.

• Have high expectations and inspire children to achieve their best.

• Be optimistic, energetic, resilient, and creative.

• Build positive relationships with parents and carers.

• Embrace change and innovation with enthusiasm and a sense of humour.

• Be excellent classroom practitioners who lead by example.

What We Offer

At Featherby, part of the Maritime Academy Trust, we pride ourselves on being a warm, nurturing, and forward-thinking school. We believe in helping every member of our community thrive—including our staff.

Here’s what we offer:

• A strong family ethos, where every staff member is valued and supported

• Bespoke CPD, including access to LearnUpon for flexible, personalised learning

• 1:1 devices for staff and pupils, supporting innovative and effective digital teaching

• Access to excellent school grounds, which are regularly used to enhance outdoor learning

• A dedicated SEND provision, enabling inclusive education and staff development

• Home visits embedded in our approach, creating meaningful family partnerships and community connection

• Local Government Pension scheme & National terms & conditions

• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme

Ready to Make a Difference?

We’d love to welcome you for a visit — come and see what makes Featherby Infant & Junior School so special. Please contact the school office on 01634 231984 to arrange.

You’ll find more about the role, school, and Trust in the Candidate Information Pack attached. Apply now via My New Term — we may interview and appoint as applications are received, so don’t delay!

Featherby Infant & Junior School and the Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and online checks in line with safeguarding guidance.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful DBS clearance and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Featherby Junior School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 358 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Featherby Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/featherby-junior-school

Featherby Junior School is part of the Maritime Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich and Kent. Our schools transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills.

The Featherby Partnership is made up of 2 schools: Featherby Infant and Nursery and Featherby Junior who are working closely together like one school. We are going forward through an exciting period of change with a new leadership team and a collaborative approach to ensure consistency of high expectations for the whole of the Featherby community. At Featherby you will find a true passion for learning, happy and safe children, a purposeful environment and an inspiring curriculum. We believe these are the key ingredients that make a Featherby child stand out from the rest.

Our vision statement is 'Working together to inspire minds through inclusive and creative practice; aspirations are high for all'. Underpinning this we have our core values of unity, resilience, responsibility, respect, honesty and trust. We are very much a value lead school which underpins our whole approach. Featherby is an inclusive school that supports learners well and encourages them to be independent and take risks in their learning.

We have high expectations of behaviour at Featherby and promote positive praise amongst learners.

Working in collaboration with each other ensures that we build strong relationships with families, children and the wider community to continuously provide children with great learning opportunities!

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