Exciting Opportunities for Early Career Teachers across Devon & Somerset

The Academies For Character And Excellence, Totnes, TQ9 5TZ

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  2 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  17 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• 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
• Contract type: Fixed term - Initially 1 Year Fixed Term
• Pay scale: M1

What skills and experience we're looking for

Exciting Opportunities for Early Career Teachers at Primary Schools across Torbay, Devon and Somerset Starting 1st September 2025 Fixed Term until 31st August 2026

The Academies for Character and Excellence has twenty Primary Schools across Torbay, Devon & Somerset making up a dynamic and innovative learning organisation. At the heart of all we do is the pursuit of excellence; we want to grow an exceptional Trust, comprised of excellent schools. We are achieving this through our shared core values of Collaboration, Community, Integrity, Equity, and of course Uncompromising Excellence. Our church schools reflect the Church of England’s vision of education for 'Life in all its Fullness' enabling all to flourish.

We are truly collaborative, and we work together within and across our schools to ensure thorough our full and rich curriculum all our children achieve their full potential. We are proud of our outcomes, but we aspire to achieve more than just academic excellence for our children. We also want our children to become healthy thinkers, curious explorers, caring citizens, knowledgeable participants, and confident individuals.

We are looking to appoint exceptional candidates who:

• Will be committed to ensure that all children achieve the highest possible outcomes
• Have a passion to ensure high expectations for all teaching and learning
• Ensure outstanding pedagogy which inspires, motivates and challenges pupils to be the best that they can be
• Have an understanding of collaborative learning
• Will work in partnership with the headteacher, local advocate board and the wider community to ensure that our mission and ethos is translated into action.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer candidates:

• An exciting and innovative Trust that will inspire and allow you to reach your full potential through our Talent Management Program
• Collaborative support within Trust Improvement Groups
• Enhanced support from an Early Careers Teacher Lead that will work closely with you as part of your development
• Collaborative support from other ECT professionals from within the Trust
• A Trust which cultivates pupils through character development leading to a stimulating and innovative curriculum
• Polite, happy and engaged children with a great enthusiasm for learning
• The opportunity to work with like-minded professionals across the Trust enabling continuous professional support

Our ECT program includes receiving excellent ongoing support through those critical early years of the teaching profession. In addition to school-based training and mentorship, ECTs are afforded the opportunity to take part in our own custom-made training program based on the ACE curriculum. Each session has a key focus and is led by a leading practitioner in that field. This training program has proven invaluable to our ECTs who collaborate with each other as they develop best practice.

We are looking for applications from like-minded people who share our Trust values and enjoy working in a collaborative culture. If you want your potential to be unlocked, and your talent managed, then we would love to hear from 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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

JD - ECT's.pdf - 662 KB (opens in new tab)

About The Academies For Character And Excellence

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: The Academies For Character And Excellence website
• Email address: recruitment@acexcellence.co.uk
• Phone number: 07762859361
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-academies-for-character-and-excellence

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