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Classroom Teacher at the Mount Pleasant Federation

Mount Pleasant Juniors, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 0WZ

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  13 April 2026

• Closing date

  9 February 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  28 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: Contract/Hours: Full time, Permanent Salary: Mainscale 1 to 6, Upper 1 to 3, dependant on experience. ECTs are welcome to apply
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Mainscale 1 to 6, Upper 1 to 3, dependant on experience.

What skills and experience we're looking for

Mount Pleasant Junior School and Mount Pleasant Infants School, both Outstanding:

We are looking for an outstanding practitioner to work as a Classroom Teacher within our Federation.

In this role, you will:

• be a member of a year team in Early Years, KS1 or KS2
• work collaboratively with year colleagues with the guidance and support of Leaders
• provide professional teaching to a class or group of pupils within the schools to improve standards of learning and achievement

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be a caring professional with high expectations for pupil progress
• Relish the challenge and recognise the benefits of working with multi-lingual children
• Welcome professional development and be ready to embrace new opportunities
• Be a team player with good interpersonal skills

• Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils
• Promote good or better progress and outcomes by pupils
• Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge
• Plan and teach well-structured lessons
• Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils
• Make accurate and productive use of assessment
• Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment
• Fulfil wider professional responsibilities

Personal and Professional Conduct:

• Teachers must demonstrate consistently high standards of personal and professional conduct.
• Teachers should meet these standards and continue to meet them throughout their teaching career.
• The federation will support teachers as they continue to develop their expertise both within these standards and towards the Post-Threshold standards.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

• An amazing working environment
• Children that are keen to learn and make the most of learning opportunities on offer
• A wonderfully inclusive local community
• CPD which will allow you develop and grow into an outstanding leader
• The opportunity to develop new strategies, with the support to analyse and develop practices that work well.

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

Safeguarding determines the actions that we take to keep children safe and protect them from harm in all aspects of their school life.

As a school we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our pupils. The actions that we take to prevent harm; to promote wellbeing; to create safe environments; to educate on rights, respect and responsibilities; to respond to specific issues and vulnerabilities all form part of the safeguarding responsibilities of the school.

Applying for the job

Please complete the online application.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

MPFederation Teacher Person Specification.pdf - 129 KB (opens in new tab)

MPFederationTeacher Job Description.pdf - 197 KB (opens in new tab)

About Mount Pleasant Juniors

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 347 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Mount Pleasant Juniors website
• Email address: rware@mpj.school
• Phone number: 02380223634
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/mount-pleasant-junior-school-southampton

We are a dedicated and determined team. We ensure that both Mount Pleasant Infant School and Mount Pleasant Junior School are a safe and stimulating environment in which to learn, work and visit.

We offer a warm and caring atmosphere whilst striving for the highest standards of achievement. Our schools motto is ‘Path to Success’ and we expect every member of our schools community to feel that they are on a journey of improvement with a clear destination of achievement.

Our expectations are high and our pupils match these in their excellent attitudes and behaviours for learning. Pupils and parents are rightly proud of the way in which children conduct themselves and enjoy coming to our schools.

Arranging a visit to Mount Pleasant Juniors

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email rware@mpj.school.

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