9 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    15 June 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    3 June 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 1

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£33,074.00 - £37,140.00 Annually (FTE) depending on experience, includes fringe allowance

Early Career Teacher job summary

Interviews: Tuesday, 17th June 2025

Are you looking to start your teaching journey within an organisation that really does place colleagues and children at the heart?

Hilltop Infant School is part of HEARTS Academy Trust, an innovative, collaborative Multi Academy Trust made up of 6 primary schools and an enhanced SEMH provision based in Essex.

We recognise and celebrate the distinctiveness of each school within our Trust, and value each of our colleagues. We are proud that effective collaboration and strong, shared professional development for staff has enabled us to continually improve and become the high-performing establishment that we are today, working together has allowed us to build expertise across our settings, meeting common goals and giving our pupils and colleagues an inclusive, ambitious and innovative community for all.

Hilltop Infant School are seeking to appoint an Early Career Teacher who will deliver the curriculum within our school with ambition and energy, whilst being an important part of our HEARTS family, inspiring our pupils to learn and grow.

Some of the benefits of joining HEARTS Academy Trust as an Early Careers Teacher include:

  • Excellent mentoring and supportive induction
  • A four-day teaching week (80:20 model) beyond the ECT years
  • Centralised, expertly planned curriculum, including some of the highest quality schemes of work
  • Extra CPD hours in your first ECT year
  • A two-week October half-term break
  • A supportive and inclusive culture
  • A bespoke workload and well-being charter
  • Excellent training and a commitment to professional development
  • HEARTS ethos, vision and values
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Internal and external networking opportunities

The Trust has a close-knit, family ethos. You will feel and gain a sense of belonging and a shared purpose, helping us transform and shape pupils and families lives.

Read more about our commitment to CPD here

For an informal discussion, please contact the school office: hilltopinf.admin@heartsacademy.uk / 01268 762531

For all vacancies at HEARTS Academy Trust please visit our website: https://heartsacademytrust.co.uk/careers/vacancies/


Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance. Please note CVs will not be accepted and Application Forms should be completed in full. Any gaps in employment must be identified and justified. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised date, should we receive enough suitable applicants.

If you would like any support or assistance at any stage of your application process, please contact recruitment@heartsacademy.uk / 01268 572672. We will be happy to discuss this with you.

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.

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About Hilltop Infant School

School type
Academy, ages 2 to 7
Education phase
Primary
School size
211 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 7
Ofsted report
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School location

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