Class Teacher - Part-time

Cliffedale Primary School, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 8DP

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  8 May 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: 0.6 (2 full days per week - Monday & Friday, plus 1 further day to be negotiated.)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: M1 - M6 / UPS for the right candidate

What skills and experience we're looking for

Job Title: Teacher

Pay Scale: Main Pay Scale

Location: Cliffedale Primary School

Line Manager: Head Teacher / Deputy Headteacher

Teaching

• Plan and teach lessons to the classes they are assigned to teach within the context of the school’s plans, curriculum and schemes of work.
• Assess, monitor, record and report on the learning needs, progress and achievements of assigned pupils.
• Participate in arrangements for preparing pupils for external examinations.

Whole school organisation, strategy and development

• Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the school’s policies, practices and procedures in such a way as to support the school’s values and vision.
• Work with others on curriculum and/or pupil development to secure co-ordinated outcomes.
• Supervise and so far as practicable teach any pupils where the person timetabled to take the class is not available to do so.

Health, safety and discipline

• Promote the safety and well-being of pupils.
• Maintain good order and discipline among pupils.

Management of staff and resources

• Direct and supervise support staff assigned to them or children in their class and, where appropriate, other teachers.
• Contribute to the recruitment, selection, appointment and professional development of other teachers and support staff.
• Deploy resources delegated to them

Taken from the Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document 2020 DfE -

Job purpose:

• To exemplify excellent classroom practice that results in high standards of learning and achievement for the pupils in your care.
• To support the Senior Leadership Team in establishing a culture that promotes excellence, equality and high expectations of all pupils and the school values.
• To ensure that your professional practice is informed by rigorous self-evaluation and that it continuously improves learning and pastoral outcomes.
• To ensure that you provide a safe and happy environment that promotes the welfare of children.
• To ensure all safeguarding and child protection policies are adhered to fully and without reservation in line with statutory duties including KCSIE 2025.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Teaching and learning

• Set high expectations for all pupils which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils.
• Establish a safe and stimulating environment for pupils, rooted in mutual respect.
• Set goals that stretch and challenge pupils of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions.
• Demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour which are expected of pupils.
• Promote excellent learning behaviours in the pupils so that they work hard in the school and in completing tasks set for homework.

Promote good progress and outcomes

• Be accountable for all pupils’ attainment, progress and outcomes assigned to them.
• Be aware of pupils’ capabilities and their prior knowledge, and plan teaching to build on these.
• Guide pupils to reflect on the progress they have made and their emerging needs.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how children learn and how this impacts on the organisation of the classroom and teaching.
• Encourage pupils to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study.
• Encourage pupils to develop study skills in order to learn more effectively and with increasing independence.

Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge

• Have a secure knowledge of the relevant subjects and curriculum areas taught, foster and maintain pupils’ interest in the subject, and address misunderstandings.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of developments in the subjects and curriculum areas and promote the value of scholarship.
• Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy, articulacy and the correct use of Standard English in all work produced.
• If teaching early reading, demonstrate a clear understanding of systematic synthetic phonics.
• If teaching early mathematics, demonstrate a clear understanding of appropriate teaching strategies.

Plan and teach well-structured lessons

• Impart knowledge and develop understanding through effective use of lesson time.
• Promote a love of learning and children’s intellectual curiosity.
• Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired.
• Reflect systematically on the effectiveness of lessons and approaches to teaching.
• Contribute to the design and provision of an engaging curriculum within the relevant subject area(s).

Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils

• Know when and how to scaffold learning appropriately.
• Understand how a range of factors can inhibit pupils’ ability to learn, apply this understanding to overcome these restrictions to learning.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the physical, social and intellectual development of children, and know how to adapt teaching to support pupils’ education at different stages.
• Have a clear understanding of the needs including S.E.M.H. of all pupils, including those with special educational needs; those of high ability; those with English as an additional language; those with disabilities; and be able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them.

Make Accurate and Productive Use of Assessment

• Know and understand how to assess the relevant subject and curriculum areas, including statutory assessment requirements.
• Make use of formative and summative assessment to secure pupils’ progress.
• Use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons.
• Give pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage pupils to respond to the feedback.

Behaviour and Safety and Personal Development

• Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a purposeful, stimulating and safe learning environment.
• Have clear rules and routines for behaviour in classrooms and take responsibility for promoting good and courteous behaviour both in classrooms and around the site, in accordance with the school’s behaviour policy.
• Have high expectations of behaviour and establish a framework for discipline with a range of strategies, using praise, sanctions and rewards consistently and fairly.
• Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to pupils’ needs in order to involve and motivate them.
• Maintain good relationships with pupils, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary.
• Carry out playground and other duties as directed and within the remit of the current School teachers’ pay and Conditions Document.
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people within the school, raising any concerns by following the school safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Promote British values, equalities and pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Fulfil Wider Professional Responsibilities

• Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school.
• Develop effective and collaborative professional relationships with colleagues, drawing appropriately on advice and specialist support.
• Deploy support staff effectively.
• Ensure that parents/carers and pupils are well informed about the curriculum, attainment and progress and about the contribution they can make in supporting their child’s learning and wellbeing.
• Provide the senior leadership team on request accurate, timely and coherent information about class, group or individual pupil progress and attainment in order to inform regular school development planning.
• Carry out any such duties as may be reasonably required by the Headteacher.

Team working and collaboration

• Participate in any relevant meetings/professional development opportunities which relate to the learners, curriculum or organisation of the school including pastoral arrangements and assemblies.
• Work as a team member and identify opportunities for working with colleagues and sharing the development of effective practice with them.
• Contribute to the selection and professional development of other teachers and support staff including the induction and assessment of new teachers, teachers serving induction periods and where appropriate threshold assessments.
• Ensure that colleagues working with you are appropriately involved in supporting learning and understand the roles they are expected to fulfil.
• Take part as required in the review, development and management of the activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the school.
• Cover for absent colleagues within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document.

Administration

• Register the attendance of and supervise learners, before, during or after sessions as appropriate.
• Participate in and carry out any administrative and organisational tasks within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.

Professional development

• Regularly review the effectiveness of your teaching and assessment procedures and its impact on pupils’ progress, attainment and wellbeing, refining your approaches where necessary and responding to advice and feedback from colleagues.
• Be responsible for improving your teaching through participating fully in training and development opportunities identified by the school or as developed as an outcome of your performance management.

Resource Management:

• Responsibility for the safe use and safe keeping of School resources in line with the requirements of the role.

What the school offers its staff

• A good school with high expectations and the drive to improve
• A friendly working environment
• Well-behaved, respectful and motivated children
• An incredibly supportive team of colleagues
• Supportive parents and governors

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

Cliffedale Primary School is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We’ll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage or civil partnership.
Cliffedale Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applicants should note that this post is subject to enhanced DBS clearance, and references taken before interview.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Cliffedale Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 297 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cliffedale Primary School website
• Email address: lynne.wiblin@cliffedale.lincs.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01476568740
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cliffedale-primary-school

On behalf of the children, staff and governors I would like to welcome you to Cliffedale Primary School. We are a happy school with excellent relationships between pupils, staff, parents and governors. We are all very proud of our school and we have high expectations of ourselves and of all the children. We are an active learning community where positive approaches to learning and improvement sit at the heart of everything we do.

As a school we are passionate about developing all of the children in our care. We strive to provide a learning environment that enables children to thrive in a caring family environment. Our core Values of Resilience, Independence, Achievement and Curiosity underpin everything we do here at Cliffedale. We see ourselves very much as the Cliffedale Family.

We encourage our pupils, families, staff and governors to work together as a team. If you are interested in becoming part of the Cliffedale family, please do get in touch. Our website will tell you a lot about our school, but the best way of really seeing how good our school is, is to arrange a visit. We would be happy to show you around the school and the children will be happy to show off their learning!

Arranging a visit to Cliffedale Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lynne.wiblin@cliffedale.lincs.sch.uk.

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