ECT Class Teacher

Darwen St Barnabas Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Darwen, Lancashire, BB3 2JA

Deadline is today

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  16 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• 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: Mainscale 1-2

ECT Class Teacher job summary

ECT Classroom Teacher

32.5 Hours per week, Full Time 

Fixed Term

All Year Round - 52.143 weeks

Mrs Ham, the Headteacher and the Governors at St Barnabas Church of England Primary Academy are seeking to appoint a highly motivated ECT Class Teacher that is able to teach all aspects of the primary curriculum and demonstrate good classroom practice. The ideal candidate will be keen to learn, a team player and motivated with a sense of humour.

We have the most wonderful polite and hardworking children and a committed and supportive staff who work well as a team. Our governors are passionate about education and fully engage in our drive for all children to 'achieve great things through learning and growing together in a love-filled Christian family'.

We have recently been graded as 'GOOD' again by Ofsted and the inspector commented:

'Pupils, and children in the early years, arrive at school happy and ready to learn. They look forward to the warm welcome that they receive every morning.'

'Pupils behave well during lessons and they learn without disruption. They are polite and respectful to one another and adults. Leaders have encouraged pupils to be inquisitive, and pupils communicate with adults well.'

' Leaders have high expectations for pupils, and pupils do their utmost to live up to these. Pupils work hard during lessons and behave well at social times. Pupils recognise the importance of trying their best and how this approach will serve them well in later life.'

We can offer you:

• Quality teaching and learning;
• Clear Christian values underpinning school life
• Happy, hard working and well behaved children;
• A professional, happy and enthusiastic staff team;
• A school well-equipped for education in the 21st century;
• Motivated and experienced Governing Body and central Trust team.
• Teachers' Pension Scheme
• Access to health and wellbeing support for you and your family
• Employment within a Trust committed to equality of opportunity and nationally and locally negotiated pay arrangements.
• Terms and conditions protected through a formal trade union recognition agreement with all the major education and support staff unions, and supported through regular JCNC meetings.
• Access to employee benefits & rewards through Perkbox
• Cycle to work scheme

We are looking to appoint a talented and committed professional with the qualities, skills and drive necessary to fulfil this key role.

Can you offer us:

• Well-developed teaching skills;
• A commitment to continuous improvement;
• Enthusiasm, resilience, adaptability and a positive outlook;
• Willingness to be involved in extra curricular activities and wider school life;
• Enthusiasm, adaptability and a positive outlook
• A commitment to our Christian ethos.

Closing date: Friday 16th May at 12pm 

Proposed Interview Date: Tuesday 20th May 2025 

Please note that in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, an online search will be carried out as part of our safer recruitment pre-employment checks on shortlisted candidates.

We are a member of Cidari Multi Academy Trust, established in November 2013, a growing educational trust and part of the Blackburn Diocese. Cidari Education is committed to providing high quality education for all children in our academies based on clearly established Christian values and principles.

 Cidari Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The above post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory check supplied by the Disclosure & Barring Service. The check will include any cautions, reprimands or final warnings as well as convictions. Further information is available below.

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 Darwen St Barnabas Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 210 pupils
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/darwen-st-barnabas-church-of-england-voluntary-aided-primary-school

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