Class teacher (maternity cover)

Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3 9XD

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  13 December 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• 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: £30,000.00 - £46,525.00 Annually (Actual) MPS/UPS

Class teacher (maternity cover) job summary

Class teacher

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, hardworking and caring class teacher to join our school team from Easter 2025. This post is suitable for ECTs who would excel at our supportive and caring school.

Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School is an inclusive, diverse and over-subscribed school, serving the community of Bretton and the Sacred Heart and St Oswald’s Parish. We are proud members of St John the Baptist Catholic Multi-academy Trust.

Christian values are at the core of our school and community however we welcome applicants from any or no faith background. We have very strong links with our local communities and Parish and regularly hold masses and worship in school with a commitment to developing our children spiritually as well as academically and socially.

As a school, we are committed to the professional development of all staff through professional learning cycles. We are committed to ensuring that practical approaches to workload are put in place to support all staff and this commitment is realised through a Trust-level and school-level wellbeing charter.

We are looking for someone who is:

• Adaptable, flexible and has high expectations of ‘the whole child’
• Passionate about inclusion and shows a commitment to inclusion
• Hardworking and a team player
• Committed to develop their own pedagogy with high-quality coaching support.
• Supportive of our strong Catholic school ethos.

Here at Sacred Heart we can offer:

• A friendly and welcoming community
• A leadership team with a commitment to purposeful and on-going professional development through cycles of professional learning
• Performance development with a clear focus development of practice to improve teaching and learning
• A dedicated pastoral team to support both staff and children
• Happy, engaged and hardworking children
• A strong and committed leadership team, focused on making school a happy place for staff and children
• A strong curriculum and teaching and learning model that is rooted in research-informed practice
• A purposeful and calm learning environment through the school.

Visits to the school are welcomed. Please contact the school office on 01733 262449 or office@sacredheart.peterborough.sch.uk to arrange.

Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare, both physical and emotional, of every pupil both inside and outside of the school premises.

As part of safer recruitment, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, which is part of the St John the Baptist Catholic Multi Academy Trust, might conduct an online search in accordance with the Keeping Children Safe in Education framework.

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 Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 210 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sacred-heart-catholic-primary-school-peterborough (opens in new tab)

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