Class Teacher (maternity cover)

Yardley Wood Community Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B14 4ER

3 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  31 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  11 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: Full-time. 32.5 hours weekly, Monday to Friday.
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Yardley Wood Community Primary are seeking to appoint two enthusiastic and energetic class teachers to join our team in September 2025. Both posts are for a year maternity leave cover in the first instance.

The successful candidates will be creative classroom practitioners. We are looking for teachers in both EYFS/KS1 & KS2. Teachers here have considerable freedom to work creatively, whilst enjoying the support of staff, parents, governors & school leadership. Yardley Wood Community Primary School is a good school which is striving to be even better.

What the school offers its staff

If successful, you would join an enthusiastic and hard-working team of teachers and teaching assistants, all of whom are committed to continuous school improvement, with the children at the heart of all we do. YWCPS is a happy school, with supportive parents and children who are well behaved, highly motivated and eager to learn. Take a look at our Bluesky feed, through the link on our website: www.ydlywood.bham.sch.uk

If you are an experienced teacher looking for a positive change, are relocating or returning to Birmingham, looking for a career development opportunity, or simply love teaching and want to work as part of a friendly, caring and aspirational school community, then you might be the right person for us and we might be the right place for you.

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to enquiry@ydlywood.bham.sch.uk

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 Yardley Wood Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 474 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Yardley Wood Community Primary School website
• Email address: enquiry@ydlywood.bham.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0121 675 2456
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/yardley-wood-community-primary-school

Arranging a visit to Yardley Wood Community Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email enquiry@ydlywood.bham.sch.uk.

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