Cover Teacher

Elmridge Primary School, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA15 0JF

27 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  20 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE) School Teacher Pay Terms and Conditions, dependent on experience.

Cover Teacher job summary

Knowledge and understanding of:

1. The school’s aims, priorities and action plans.

2. Any statutory curriculum requirements and the requirements for assessment, recording and reporting of pupils’ attainment and progress.

3. The characteristics of high quality teaching and the main strategies for improving and sustaining high standards of teaching, learning and achievement for all pupils.

4. The implications of the code of practice for special educational needs for teaching and learning.

Teaching

1. Planning and preparing courses and lessons.

2. Teaching pupils according to their educational needs including the setting and marking of their work.

3. Curriculum coverage, continuity and progression in the subject for all pupils, for those with special educational needs

Pastoral and communication

1. Promoting the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and of any class or group of pupils assigned.

2. Providing guidance and advice to pupils on educational and social matters and on their further education and future careers.

3. Making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of pupils.

4. Communicating and consulting with the parents of pupils

Assessment, reporting and monitoring

1. Provide oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils.

2. Establish clear targets for pupils’ achievement, and evaluate progress and achievement by all pupils, including those with special needs.

3. Use data effectively to identify pupils who are underachieving and, where necessary, create and implement effective plans of action to support those pupils.

We are open, supportive and flexible with high-quality CPD opportunities through our Teaching School Hubs and Professional Development Institute.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for a full list of responsibilities and accountabilities.

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Elmridge Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 232 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Elmridge Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/elmridge-primary-school-altrincham

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