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Swaythling Primary School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 3SZ

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• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  24 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• 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: 30000 - 41333
• Pay scale: M1 to M6

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic teacher to join our popular community school.

The school is a part of the Aspire Community Trust- a co-operative trust of city-maintained schools

What is it like to attend this school? ‘In this school, all are welcome, all are different.’ (A pupil 2025)

We are seeking to recruit a great teacher who:

• Is a reflective practitioner who motivates and challenges children to be their best
• Has high personal standards and sets high expectations of achievement, character and behaviour for all
• Has a drive to understand how all children learn best and demonstrates great learning themselves
• Is hardworking and committed to create a rich learning environment
• Demonstrates flexibility, integrity, resilience and initiative
• Has a good sense of humour
• Is able to work effectively as part of a team
• Is creative in their approach to a rich curriculum.
• Has excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.

What the school offers its staff

• The opportunity to work in an exciting learning environment, as part of a trust which includes primary, infants and nursery, special, junior, secondary and special schools, who all work together in genuine collaboration
• A caring, friendly environment where there is a genuine commitment to raising standards of learning for all
• The chance to make a real difference to the lives of our pupils and their families
• A strong, professional team of enthusiastic staff to work alongside you within a supportive and constructive ethos where CPD is a very high priority.
• Exceptional CPD and promotion opportunities made possible by our membership of the trust.

Our teachers and support staff are professional, committed and excited about all our school has to offer, so we would be very interested to receive applications from similar individuals, whether highly experienced or recently qualified.

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.

This job post has expired.

Additional documents

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

Letter to Applicant.pdf - 96.8 KB (opens in new tab)

Class Teacher Job Description & Person Spec.doc - 98 KB (opens in new tab)

About Swaythling Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 211 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Swaythling Primary School website
• Email address: recruitment@swaythlingprimary.org
• Phone number: 02380552252
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/swaythling-primary-school

Arranging a visit to Swaythling Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@swaythlingprimary.org.

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