Class Teacher (Maternity Cover)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, LS24 9JG2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
28 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 March 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 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE) Salary MPS/UPS
Class Teacher (Maternity Cover) job summary
- Required from September 2025
- Fixed term until 12 April 2026 (initially for 2 terms with the possibility of being extended)
- Full Time, 32.5 hours per week
- Salary MPS/UPS
The Governors are looking for a talented, motivational, and inspiring teacher to join our Catholic primary school and Nursery at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School and Nursery, Tadcaster.
We are looking for a Classroom Teacher who will:
- support the Catholic ethos of our school
- be an excellent practitioner, able to motivate children
- be innovative, adaptive, creative, forward thinking and work collaboratively within our team
- have high expectations of children of all groups and abilities
- create an inclusive classroom, which fully accommodates the needs of children with SEND
- engage and motivate children to learn
- be cheerful and friendly, and build positive relationships with children, staff and families
- be committed to children’s welfare and safeguarding
- have a fair, positive and calm approach to ensure pupils meet high expectations of behaviour
We offer:
- a strong Catholic ethos
- a recent Ofsted ‘Good’ inspection (March 2025)
- a friendly, happy school that lives by its vision statement, ‘Live, love and learn with the Lord’
- happy children with exemplary standards of behaviour
- a welcoming and caring environment where everyone is valued
- supportive families, Academy Council and parish community
- a strong commitment to continuous professional development
- the support and guidance of governors, Diocese of Leeds and the Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust
For further information, please contact Claire Norman, our Office Manager on 01937 832344 or admin@stjosephstadcaster.org . Visits to the school are encouraged, by appointment through the school office.
The Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy for applications or withdraw the vacancy at any time at its absolute discretion.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS enhanced disclosure certificate.
In line with KCSiE 2024, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any matters that are publicly available online, which we might want to explore with you at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
St. Joseph's is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of all children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
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 St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 99 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
St Joseph’s has a distinctive caring ethos, which is rooted in the Gospel Values and virtues. Our vision is to be a fully inclusive school, offering all who work and learn here the best possible opportunity for nurturing learning and self-development. All of the staff in school work hard to develop the potential of each child to the full.
At St Joseph’s, our aims are:
– to provide a Catholic Christian education based on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, in which the values of the Gospel underpin all aspects of school life;
– to provide an environment in which the dignity of each person as a child of God is recognised and developed; and to promote the full potential of each child through a curriculum which develops spiritual, academic, social and emotional growth;
– to provide a curriculum which is enriching and challenging, where children experience the opportunity to learn in a wide range of contexts.
We welcome all families and we aim for all our children to achieve their full potential in their academic, social, moral and spiritual selves. Guided by Gospel virtues and values, children are prepared for and are able to cope with the challenges they may face in their future lives.
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