ECT Class Teacher

Wixams Tree Primary Academy, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 6BA

21 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  21 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  28 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS

ECT Class Teacher job summary

Wixams Tree Primary are currently recruiting for a ECT  Class Teacher to join our thriving school. Wixams Tree Primary first opened our doors in 2017 and since this time we have had the pleasure of seeing our school grow to one of the most over-subscribed schools in the area. We have recently merged with Knowledge Schools Trust and have implemented an enhanced, knowledge rich curriculum. Visits to our school are warmly welcomed.

As a class teacher, you will be responsible for:

• Teaching a class pupils and ensure that planning, preparation, recording assessment and reporting meet their varying learning and social needs

• Maintaining the positive ethos and core values of the school, both inside and outside the classroom.

• Contributing to constructive team-building among teaching and non-teaching staff, parents and governors;

• Ensure that the current national conditions of employment for school teachers are met.

Full details of the role can be found in the attached job description and person specification

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment and safeguarding checks, including an enhanced DBS clearance check, Prohibition from Teaching Checks and a Section 128 Direction Check (if applicable). KST is committed to the safeguarding of the children and young people in our care and actively promotes their welfare. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. KST is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from minority groups.

Interviews to take place 24 June 2025.

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 Wixams Tree Primary Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 502 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Wixams Tree Primary Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wixams-tree-primary-school

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