Class Teacher (Maternity Cover)

Waterbeach Community Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9JU

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  24th February 2025

• Closing date

  6 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  23 May 2025

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: Main Scale

Class Teacher (Maternity Cover) job summary

About this Role

We are seeking to appoint teachers for maternity cover at Waterbeach Community Primary School to work in Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2.

One role is until spring half term 2026 and one until summer half term 2026 These are exciting opportunities for the right candidate to contribute to a good school which was recently inspected by Ofsted.

We can offer you:

• A great team of dedicated staff and empowered, hardworking children
• Two paid wellbeing days a year
• Access to a counsellor in school and an employee assistance programme
• A school at the heart of its community with great relationships with parents
• Support with leadership development
• A dedicated and developing SEN team
• Access to the cycle to work scheme

The successful candidate will have:

• Evidence of positive impacts on children's outcomes and wellbeing
• Effective and inclusive teaching practice
• Excellent safeguarding knowledge and practice
• The ability to communicate effectively with families and the wider local community
• Integrity, intelligence, warmth and compassion – in all, a great role model for our children, staff and wider school communities

You will be a knowledgeable primary teacher who loves learning.

You will demonstrate high expectations and you will be proactive, reflective and resilient. You will be able to model empathy and respect and to champion effective provision for children.

The school is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.

Visits to the school are encouraged; please contact the school.

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.

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

About Waterbeach Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 516 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Waterbeach Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/waterbeach-community-primary-school

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