Gateway Primary Free School: Y6 Class Teacher with responsibility

The Gateway Primary Free School, Grays, Essex, RM16 4LU

18 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  3 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  15 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £48,925 to £52,503

Gateway Primary Free School: Y6 Class Teacher with responsibility job summary

Year 6 Class Teacher - with responsibility 

GLC: Gateway Primary Free School

Salary: Teachers Main Pay/Upper Pay Scale - dependent on experience

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full Time - Talk to us about flexible working

Closing Date: 3rd October 2025 at Midday 

The Gateway Primary Free School is part of the Gateway Learning Community [GLC] which is a partnership between one secondary and four primary schools located within Tilbury and Chadwell in the borough of Thurrock to the east of London.

We are a vibrant, innovative and highly successful organisation: the place of choice to work and learn. Across the 5 academies of the GLC, we pledge that everyone enjoys an equality of opportunity. We work tirelessly to ensure that individual different characteristics including age, ethnicity, socio-economic background, academic ability, disability, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation are not discriminated against in any way. We create environments characterised by mutual respect where difference is celebrated and where individual differences don't act as a barrier to success.

The successful candidate will be an experienced teacher with excellent subject knowledge and a thorough understanding of the current curriculum or an early careers teacher with enthusiasm and a passion to learn. Candidates will need to evidence a committed approach to ensuring that all pupils under their care, regardless of ability, have the opportunity to make excellent progress.

Candidates will need to evidence a committed approach to ensuring that all pupils under their care, regardless of ability, have the opportunity to make excellent progress.

Watch our video for an insight in to our academy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=mKl4MgwJUmA&feature=youtu.be

You can read our latest Ofsted Report here: https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/21/138334

Additional Benefits for Working for the GLC:

£1000 Golden Hello for successful candidates [teachers paid on Main Scale to UPS 3 only applying directly to the GLC, only after a qualifying period of 12 months.]

3 hours of planning, preparation and assessment time [Primary]

No expectations for teachers to lead after school clubs [Primary]

Staff well-being programme: Including access to Perkbox and Westfield Health Insurance

Salary Sacrifice Schemes including Electric Car Scheme and Cycle to work Scheme

Long service awards after: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and years of service

State of the art facilities and access to high quality resources to support learning

A paid 'My Day' each year

Excellent career development and training

2 week October half term break

A supportive central team [reprographics, ICT, HR, Finance] which enables teachers to focus on teaching

Paid opportunities to teach during school holiday clubs

Subsidised holiday provision for children of staff

GLC Staff Nursery [Competitive rates and term time only]

The GLC embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

We warmly welcome applicants who are interested in this position to visit our school prior to making an application.

Please contact Casey.Townsend@theglc.org.uk to arrange a visit. If you would like to apply for this position, please complete an online application form.

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

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About The Gateway Primary Free School

• School type: Free School, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 439 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Gateway Primary Free School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-gateway-primary-free-school

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