Class Teacher

Waterside Primary Academy, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 1QU

Deadline is tomorrow

• Job start date

  13 April 2025

• Closing date

  21 November 2025 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  24 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £34,398.00 - £46,839.00 Annually (FTE)

Class Teacher job summary

Kings Education Trust

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Based at Waterside Primary Academy in Chesham

For Summer Term 2026 - Summer 2027

Our Trust and schools are built on the foundations of kindness, respect and always doing our best. We aim to nurture our pupils to become the best they can be and encourage them to develop as global citizens who understand their responsibility to themselves and to their wider community. We encourage our pupils to dream big and need a class teacher who can do the same.

We are looking for a talented and inspirational class teacher to join our happy and supportive team. The Trust places a firm focus on the mental health and wellbeing of both pupils and staff. We have recently completed the Outstandingly Happy Schools project with the Art of Being Brilliant, to support the mental health and wellbeing of our pupils, staff and families.

You must be a strong team player, with an ability to build strong relationships with adults and children. You must be resilient and hardworking, teaching is a challenging job and whilst every effort is made to provide a supportive environment and a manageable workload, the job is still demanding.

You must be willing to look beyond what is on the prescribed curriculum, we need a teacher who is motivated, creative and inspired, with the ability to transfer these skills to our wonderful pupils.

We can offer you:

Enthusiastic and motivated children

A supportive and caring environment to work in, with a dedicated senior leadership team.

A focus on ensuring your workload is manageable

An encouraging environment to help you grow as a professional and nurture your wellbeing

A fantastic teaching team to work alongside and learn from.

A curriculum that is supported and designed specifically for our pupils, using an assessment system that enables teachers to teach.

Caring and inclusive schools with supportive, enthusiastic and dedicated colleagues, Trust and parents.

A commitment to high quality professional development, including Early Career Development

A welcoming and well-resourced environment

5 inset days and 1 wellbeing academy day

July start date for ECTs to enable you to get to know the school before taking up your full time role

About you

We love teaching! If you would like to work with like-minded colleagues, we want to hear from you!

Are you:

Looking to become or already an exemplary primary class teacher with a passion for teaching and learning?

Willing to teach across the whole primary range?

Pro-active in your approach to raising standards?

Someone who has high expectations of all children.

Eager to develop your skills and experience?

A team player with good interpersonal skills?

Someone with an excellent sense of humour and a sense of fun?

Someone who is willing to go the extra mile.

If you can answer yes to all the above questions, we would love to hear from you. This is a rare opportunity and we are looking for a staff member to become an integrated part of our school family. We have a proven track record of supporting ECT’s and this position would be ideally suited to someone just starting out in their teaching career.

Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note that we may wish to conduct an online search of your name prior to an interview.

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 Waterside Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 199 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Waterside Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/waterside-primary-academy

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