Classteacher
Swaythling Primary School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 3SZ21 days remaining to apply
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.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
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
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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