Class Teacher
West Walker Primary School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE6 3XW6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
15 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main/Upper Pay Range £31,650 - £49,084 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Good knowledge and understanding of relevant stages of the National Curriculum.
- Ability to communicate effectively with children, young people, colleagues and parents/carers.
- Ability to create a purposeful learning environment and set clear expectations for behaviour.
- Recent experience of teaching in EYs, KS1 or KS2.
What the school offers its staff
- Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across the trust.
- A team of hardworking, dedicated and friendly staff where everyone is valued.
- The benefitof working in a highly collaborative multi academy trust.
- Membership of the Teachers' PensionScheme which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
- Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government etc.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), delivered by Health Assured – the UK and Irelands leading wellbeing provider.
- Good public transport links via Tyne and Wear Metro and road links from the A19 and A1058 Coast Road.
Further details about the role
West Walker Primary School are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, skilled teacher with excellent subject knowledge and a successful track record to join their team from September 2025. You'll be responsible for the progress of learners within a particular class, whilst delivering enthusiastic and creative teaching that inspires our pupils.
Our school is one of eight primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East. We have a national research school, which aims to build and strengthen networks of schools throughout the region and help them access effective education research and implement it in everyday practice.
At West Walker Primary School our dedicated and caring staff work hard to meet the needs of every child, providing a safe, secure and stimulating environment. We are committed to developing positive relationships between children, staff, parents and the wider community.
Interested? If you would like to join us and feel you could thrive here, then please read the accompanying job description and person specification and complete an application form by clicking ‘apply now’ no later than midnight on Thursday 15th May 2025.
NEAT is committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of pre-employment checks. For shortlisted candidates, we will conduct an online search as part of our screening.
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.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About West Walker Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 206 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- West Walker Primary School website
- Email address
- j.brown@neatat.org.uk
School location
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