Early Career Class Teacher
Mellor Primary School, Stockport, Cheshire, SK6 5PLThis job expired on 19 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 31,650
What skills and experience we're looking for
We’re Looking For Someone Who:
- Is eager to begin their teaching journey as an ECT1
- Shares our belief in Making People Shine and values wellbeing as a foundation for great learning
- Is excited by the opportunity to work in a PERMAV school where relationships, vitality, and positive culture are central
- Brings positivity, fresh ideas, and a real love for teaching and learning
- Is enthusiastic, reflective, and open to learning
- Has a positive outlook and a passion for creative, inclusive teaching
- Can turn a rainy playtime into an opportunity for imagination and adventure
- Is ready to grow, reflect and shine as part of both a close-knit school team and a wider supportive Trust community
What the school offers its staff
What You’ll Find Here:
- A personal, experienced mentor to guide and support you through your ECT years
- A carefully structured induction programme designed to help you shine
- Regular CPD opportunities within school and across the Honeycomb Education Trust
- A dedicated, caring team that celebrates creativity, individuality, and innovation
- The freedom to be creative with your lessons and contribute to a curriculum that values outdoor learning, creativity, and pupil voice
- A leadership team that listens, values your input, prioritises staff wellbeing and professional growth
- A culture where everyone, from the youngest pupil to the newest teacher, is valued and supported
Further details about the role
Making People Shine — Start Your Teaching Journey at Mellor Primary School
A proud PERMAV School and member of the Honeycomb Education Trust
Are you an Early Career Teacher with a passion for making a difference, shaping futures and a heart for inspiring young learners? The Governors of Mellor Primary School are ready to welcome a new ECT into our caring, ambitious school community - a place where we’re dedicated to Making People Shine: pupils, staff, and our wider community alike.
Why Choose Mellor?
At Mellor Primary School, we do things differently. As a proud PERMAV school, wellbeing sits at the heart of everything we do - for both our children and our staff. Through a focus on Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement, and Vitality, we create an environment where everyone can flourish, feel valued, and be supported to thrive.
As part of the Honeycomb Education Trust, we’re connected to a small family of schools who share our values, offering exciting opportunities for collaboration, shared learning and career development - while keeping our own strong, individual identity.
Nestled in a beautiful location with a vibrant school community, Mellor Primary School is a welcoming, nurturing learning environment where creativity, kindness and ambition go hand in hand. Curiosity is celebrated, ideas are welcomed, and no two days are ever the same!
If you’re bursting with enthusiasm, full of creative ideas, and eager to learn - you’ll fit right in.
We’re proud of our commitment to developing staff at every stage of their career, and for ECTs, we offer an inspiring, supportive start to your teaching journey.
Mellor Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. An online/social media check will be undertaken on all candidates selected for interview.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Mellor Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 230 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Mellor Primary School website
- Email address
- schooladmin@mellor.stockport.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0161 4271052
Mellor Primary School is set in a beautiful semi- rural landscape and combines this with the drive and commitment to be a school of excellence. It is very much at the heart of the local community and is a special place to work!
Mellor Primary School is committed to safeguarding children.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory clearance by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) and is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and other pre-employment checks where applicable.
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