Early Years Class Teacher

Orchard Meadow Primary School, Oxford, OX4 6BG

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  5 January 2026

• Closing date

  17 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern: Full time: Full Time Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: PT1 (£35,000) to PT6 (£45,000)

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for candidates who:

• Are an excellent practitioner. A specialism or additional training in Special Educational Needs (SEN) is highly desirable.
• Are confident in the classroom and understand how children with SEND, learn.
• Have high expectations of what can be achieved.
• Seek to build positive relationships with children.
• Are flexible with a good sense of humour and an understanding of the ‘bigger picture’.
• Are able to work to their own initiative as well as part of a team.
• Hold Qualified Teacher Status.
• Are confident and excited about using and embracing IT and outdoor learning in their practice.
• Are flexible, hardworking and have a passion to make a difference in the lives of our young learners.
• Are keen to explore leadership opportunities.
• A genuine passion for inclusive education and a commitment to making a difference.

What the school offers its staff

At Orchard Meadow School we are looking for someone with experience, energy, enthusiasm and a hard-working ethos to join our happy school. Orchard Meadow School is a school with a commitment to high standards and teamwork. By January 2026, our Early Years Unit will have undergone an exciting full transformation being fully rebuilt and redesigned to create an impressive indoor and outdoor environments to both work and learn in. We are proud to be an inclusive and successful school serving a diverse community. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of our fantastic staff team.

If you are an experienced practitioner with a passion to make a difference, then we want to hear from you. Alongside your teaching, you will have the opportunity to work in partnership with others developing your professional capital. The successful candidate will benefit from a supportive and ambitious Senior Leadership team and the opportunities that come with United Learning.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Orchard Meadow Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post involves the type of work with children and young people that requires applicants to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post. All users are considered confidentially and according to the nature of the role and information disclosed.

Applying for the job

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About Orchard Meadow Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 217 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Orchard Meadow Primary School website
• Email address: hr@orchardmeadow.org
• Phone number: 01865 778609
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/orchard-meadow-primary-school-ox4-6bg

Orchard Meadow is located in Blackbird Leys on the outskirts of Oxford. We proud to be a diverse school with high ambitions and expectations, which is reflected in our school values and curriculum.

Everything we do is values driven and linked to PRIDE – our school motto. Learn more about our ‘PRIDE’ values here and see some examples of our students’ many achievements on the pages of this site. Every day we want pupils to feel proud of themselves and what they can offer their community as active, enquiring, compassionate citizens.

Above all, we want our learners to be happy and feel inspired by the joy of learning. Being a pupil at Orchard Meadow is an opportunity to find out something new, be creative, be challenged and, most importantly, feel valued.

We are a school family and this ethos is supported by daily ‘family meetings’, which help pupils to feel calm, safe and ready to learn. Our commitment to pupil well-being is supplemented by a bespoke curriculum and a broad offer which includes enrichment activities for all, mentoring and therapeutic interventions.

Arranging a visit to Orchard Meadow Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@orchardmeadow.org.

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