Class Teacher (PPA Cover 0.6)

Bellefield Primary and Nursery School, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8TE

19 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  2 November 2026

• Closing date

  2 November 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  14 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £32,916 - £51,048 per annum pro rata | £19,749 - £30,628 per annum

Class Teacher (PPA Cover 0.6) job summary

The working hours for this role are expected to be 0.6 FTE, Wednesday to Friday. The start date for this role is 02 November 2026 or as soon as possible.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and adaptable teacher to join our team as a PPA Cover Teacher, providing high-quality teaching across our KS2 classes. The successful candidate will deliver engaging and inclusive lessons that support continuity of learning during teachers' planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time. You will create a positive and stimulating learning environment, fostering high expectations and helping all pupils to achieve their full potential. Working closely with teaching colleagues and support staff, you will contribute to effective curriculum delivery and the wider life of the school. The role requires strong classroom management skills, flexibility, and the ability to build positive relationships quickly with pupils, staff and families. A commitment to safeguarding, pupil wellbeing, and promoting excellent standards of teaching and learning is essential. In return, you will join a supportive and forward-thinking school that values collaboration, professional development, and achieving the very best outcomes for every child. As a member of staff within our Trust, you will contribute to a collaborative working environment and play a key role in supporting the learning and development of all pupils.

For a complete Job Description, Person Specification, and Candidate Briefing Pack, please view the attached documents. We recommend viewing these documents as they will guide you in preparing a strong application and help you understand what we’re looking for in an ideal candidate. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early upon receipt of suitable candidates.

About EQUA Mead Learning Trust

EQUA Mead Learning Trust is a leading educational institution based in Wiltshire. Dedicated to providing high-quality education to students from diverse backgrounds. Members of staff across EQUA Mead will be committed to improving the life chances of the pupils we educate and ensure we give Every Child, Every Chance. As a growing Trust, currently educating almost 6000 pupils across 22 different schools (pre-school, primary, secondary, and sixth form) we are immensely proud of our staff and endeavour to be an employer of choice. This is an exciting time as we continue to grow the number of schools and children we support.

Important Application Information

When completing your application, please ensure that you add at least 2 references, with the first being your most recent employer. Please ensure that you read the attached referencing guidelines to familiarise yourself with our process. 

As part of our safer recruitment procedures, it is important that references are requested and, wherever possible, obtained before the interview. Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance states that references should be sought before interview wherever possible and should be scrutinised as part of the recruitment process to help ensure that only suitable individuals are appointed to work with children.

Early applications are encouraged, as we reserve the right to interview before the closing date. Your application must include a full employment history, accounting for any periods of time where you were not in active employment. If this is not included it may not be possible to consider your application. To comply with safer recruitment regulations, we cannot accept applications using a CV. An incomplete application will not be considered. 

This role will involve contact with children, and the post holder will be engaged in regulated activity relevant to children and will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed. 

We will only submit a DBS application to the relevant disclosure service when a position is accepted. 

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Bellefield Primary and Nursery School

• Organisation type: Academy, Church of England, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 317 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Bellefield Primary and Nursery School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bellefield-primary-and-nursery-school-trowbridge

Bellefield Primary and Nursery School is a very friendly and welcoming school with a happy and hard working team of staff. We are highly inclusive and put our children at the heart of everything that we do. We are a primary school with a Nursery on site as well as a Resource Base . We support a diverse range of children including a higher than average proportion of EAL and SEND children.

We have an excellent staff team who go the extra mile to create an environment and curriculum where the children thrive, are happy and make good progress. As a church school, we have a strong Christian ethos and our key values, which are Respect, Responsibility, Friendship, Honesty and Courage, form the basis of our day to day lives at Bellefield.

We are proud to be part of the EQUA Mead Learning Trust; a leading educational institution based in Wiltshire. Dedicated to providing high-quality education to students from diverse backgrounds. Members of staff across EQUA Mead will be committed to improving the life chances of the pupils we educate and ensure we give Every Child, Every Chance.

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