Key Stage 2 Teacher
Leighton Middle School, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1EX95 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2025 or earlier
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Subject
- Key Stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Key Stage 2 Teacher job summary
Leighton Middle School is a popular and successful 9-13 middle school. We are looking to appoint a lively and enthusiastic teacher to teach a range of subjects in KS2.
We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and adaptable practitioner on a full time , permanent contract. The successful candidate will be a class teacher in Year 5 and Year 6 and join a staff team committed to Personal Excellence. The ability to teach the core subjects to upper KS2 will be essential.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone innovative and aspiring to join a team committed to developing teaching and learning in a happy school with a strong pastoral ethos. Visitors describe our children as 'well behaved, delightful, confident and independent learners'.
Both experienced teachers and ECTs are welcome to apply. We warmly welcome visits to the school.
Interviews may start to be held before the date of closure depending on number of applications received.
Please note that if you are shortlisted for this role, or an alternative role, an online name search will be undertaken, as per Keeping Children Safe in Education. The purpose of the search is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with you at interview.
CVs will not be accepted for any posts based in schools. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).
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.
About Leighton Middle School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 9 to 13
- Education phase
- Middle
- School size
- 595 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 13
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Leighton Middle School website (opens in new tab)
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