Class Teacher

Middlestown Primary Academy, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 4QE

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  To Start 01 January 2026

• Closing date

  31 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term - Temporary to cover MAT leave - Maternity or parental leave cover
• Pay scale: MPR/UPR

What skills and experience we're looking for

Middlestown Primary Academy are seeking to appoint an innovative Class Teacher with vision and energy to joinour team and deliver engaging lessons. The successful candidate will teach a Year 5 class on a part time,temporary basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a forward-thinking, ambitious team in a welcoming, friendlyschool. The successful candidate should be hard working, with the ability to work effectively in collaboration withtheir designated year group partner and other designated class teachers.

This position is available on a 0.4 part time basis, working Mondays and Tuesdays. It is temporary to covermaternity leave for up to one year.

We value challenge and active participation. The successful applicant will relentlessly pursue instilling an interestin their subject amongst all pupils, they will be innovative, with demonstrable resilience, enthusiasm anddedication.

Middlestown Primary Academy has recently been through an Ofsted inspection where it was praised for being a‘warm and welcoming’ school where pupils ‘receive an excellent education and a wealth of experiences beyondthe classroom.’ You will need to demonstrate consistently good or better teaching, motivate and inspire pupils whilst setting highexpectations. We would encourage the successful candidate to play an active role in the wider part of the schoolwhere they will be supported by a team of friendly staff and lovely children.

Applications are welcomed from teachers across the experience range. We offer an extensive programme ofacademy and Trust Professional Development to ensure all colleagues continue to develop as practitioners andhave opportunities to work collaboratively across subjects and across academies within our Trust.

Early Career Teachers (ECTs) will have an experienced subject mentor assigned from day one in post. Colleaguesare supported through their early career years with regular check ins from line managers and opportunities tomeet with other ECT’s across the Trust and colleagues from HR where any further support and guidance may berequired. We are an inclusive academy and Trust and embrace opportunities to develop all colleagues on theirjourney to success. All newly appointed teaching colleagues receive a bespoke onboarding induction includingtheir first day off timetable to ensure sufficient time and preparation can take place.

If you have the vision and skills to deliver inspirational teaching whilst having the focus and drive to ensuresuccessful outcomes are reached we’d love to hear from you.

What the school offers its staff

As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits and we also encourage prospectivecandidates to look at our website for further information regarding our ‘People Pledge’ and our recently launched

Employee Benefit package Working For Our Trust - Accord (accordmat.org).

Here are a few examples of employee benefits that focus on our employees Financial, Physical and Mental

Wellbeing:

• Membership to either the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or the Local Government Pension Scheme

• Technology scheme via SmartTech*

• Access to an extensive discounts platform via Accord Rewards

• Access to an industry leading Employee Assistance Programme

• 24/7 access to an online GP or Advanced Nurse Practitioner through Corporate Paid Healthcare Cash Plans

• Access to health and wellbeing services, with the ability to claim money back for essential healthcare such as

prescriptions, optical and dental care through Corporate Paid Healthcare Cash Plans.

• Cycle to Work Scheme*

• Free annual flu jab

Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings

*restrictions apply

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

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.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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About Middlestown Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 205 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Middlestown Primary Academy website
• Email address: hr@accordmat.org
• Phone number: 01924 921213
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/middlestown-primary-academy

Arranging a visit to Middlestown Primary Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@accordmat.org.

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