Graduate Apprentice Teacher - Maths
The Valley Leadership Academy, Bacup, Lancashire, OL13 0TG4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
26 August 2025
Closing date
1 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Fixed term - Apprentice programme - role to become permanent on completion.
Full-time equivalent salary
- £21,731 to £33,902 per annum
Pay scale
- UQ1 to UQ6
What skills and experience we're looking for
What you will get
- The opportunity to work in a school which is part of one of the highest performing multi-academy trusts in the country with a passion for improving the life chances of young people at the core of its work.
- Paid employment as an apprentice mathematics teacher in an established school mathematics department.
- Fully-funded enrolment on the Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship programme provided by the National Institute of Teaching, culminating in the award of qualified teacher status.
- High quality professional mentoring and in-school CPD.
- Regular feedback on your progress, complemented by supportive action planning.
- Upon completing the Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship Programme, you’ll be a qualified teacher with a job in the school where you trained with access to the National Institute of Teaching’s flagship leadership programmes.
Who we’re looking for
We are seeking graduates with proven academic credentials who are keen to become teachers in Star schools. Applicants must:
- be values-driven and determined to improve the life chances of children and young people.
- have the motivation and commitment to become a Star teacher.
- have the potential and ambition to secure qualified teacher status.
- be reflective learners with a growth mindset and appetite to receive and act upon feedback.
What the school offers its staff
About The Valley Leadership Academy
The Valley Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Bacup. We joined Star Academies in 2019 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.
We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
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
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About The Valley Leadership Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 655 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Valley Leadership Academy website
- Email address
- daniel.burgess@staracademies.org
The Valley Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Bacup. We joined Star Academies in 2019 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.
We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
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