Class Teacher (Maternity Cover position – fixed term)
Gatley Primary School, Stockport, Cheshire, SK8 4NB9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
22 April 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 April 2026
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - Fixed Term - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- Main Scale
What skills and experience we're looking for
Class Teacher
Contract type:(Maternity Cover position – fixed term)
Location: Gatley Primary School
Required from: September 2026
Salary:Main Scale / Applications welcome from ECTs and Experienced Teachers
Closing date: Wednesday 22 April 2026 12.00pm
Interview date: Wednesday 29 April 2026
Applicants are welcome and encouraged to visit our schools for a ‘Meet and Greet’ session on:
- Tuesday 14 April 4:00pm
- Wednesday 15 April 4:00pm
This is a wonderful opportunity to meet members of the staff team and see the wider school environment. As places will be limited to 20 per session, please contact the school office to book a place on office@gatleyprimary.com or 0161 428 6180.
Gatley Primary School is seeking to appoint highly motivated Class Teacher. Applications are welcome from ECTs.
Are you an inspirational teacher who is passionate about delivering a rich curriculum which consists of a wide range of activities and experiences across and beyond the classroom?
Do you want to teach in an outstanding school where the voice of the child is paramount to our learning?
Does research inspire you to implement initiatives to enhance your practice?
Do you want to work in a school where staff wellbeing is paramount?
Do you want to teach in an environment where feedback is part of classroom practice and does not happen outside of the school day?
Do you want to work with an exceptional staff and children who all have a thirst for learning and where outcomes for pupils are within the top 10% nationally?
At Gatley Primary School, which is part of a forward-thinking and collaborative Multi Academy Trust, we provide a learning environment that aims to create a warm, friendly atmosphere in which children can grow and develop both academically and personally. We take pride in our achievements and have high expectations for each child in every aspect of their work – captured by our underlying school mission statement –‘Enjoying Learning and Achieving Together’ and ‘Inspire and Empower.’ We recognise that positive mental health and well-being, along with personal growth, are essential to the development of thriving and successful pupils and staff.
The successful candidate will be an exceptional teacher with skills to enhance school life in order to maximise opportunities for pupils. They will have high expectations of themselves and others, and this will reflect the Trust’s approach of collaboration and empowerment in order to achieve. The successful candidate will also demonstrate a real commitment to safeguarding and safe working practices which is fundamental to the Trust’s ethos and values.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer the successful candidate:
- Collaborative planning opportunities within year groups, phases and curriculum teams.
- An opportunity to learn and develop together and from each other.
- An aspirational working environment with a strong focus on professional development and empowerment
- Opportunities to implement initiatives based upon educational research
- Marking ‘live’ in the moment to support learning conversations
- A high functioning, friendly staff team who are committed to the school
- A comprehensive wellbeing offer to support staff and children
For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
- exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
- school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
- opportunities for professional development and leadership
- a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
- Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.
It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Completed applications should be emailed to: vacancies@gatleyprimary.com. Please note, we cannot accept CVs.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
ELT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Gatley Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 636 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Gatley Primary School website
- Email address
- scarroll@gatleyprimary.com
- Phone number
- 0161 428 6180
Gatley Primary School is a large, three-form entry school located within a pleasant suburban area on the outskirts of Stockport. The school currently has 577 pupils on roll aged between 3 and 11. We see ourselves very much as a family school, where education is a partnership between staff, parents /carers and pupils, and where we work together for the good of all our children.
Gatley Primary provides a unique learning experience for children, which they design themselves. Our children co-construct the curriculum around their own interests and backgrounds. This starts with suggestions for themes, developing activities and then moves through to creating their own success criteria for a lesson. Staff feel that this level of involvement is crucial to everyone’s engagement and excitement for the curriculum.
Along with this, children are provided with an independent learning approach through which they are able to make choices and challenge themselves in the learning environment. Whilst a specific and challenging success criteria underpins everything within the environment, children explore and challenge themselves, accessing a range of key skills.
Arranging a visit to Gatley Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email scarroll@gatleyprimary.com.
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