KS1/2 Class Teacher

St James' Church of England Primary School, Wigan, Lancashire, WN3 5XE

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Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
16 June 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
6 June 2025

Job details

Job role: Teacher
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Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: M1 to M6

What skills and experience we're looking for

Skills

Promote the school’s aims positively and use effective strategies to motivate and inspire pupils.
Develop good personal relationships within a team.
Establish and develop close relationships with parents, governors and the community.
Communicate effectively (both orally and in writing) to a variety of audiences.
Create a challenging, effective and stimulating learning environment.

Able to use ICT effectively

Experience

The Class Teacher should have experience of:

Successful teaching experience within Primary Education, including EYFS.
Proven track record in raising pupil attainment
Working in partnership with parents
Working with SEN

What the school offers its staff

About Liverpool Diocesan Schools Trust

We believe

Jesus said, ‘Let the children come to me.’ (Mt 19).

We believe that we are fulfilling this command when we enable children of all faiths and none to flourish in our schools. The Liverpool Diocesan Schools Trust (LDST) has an important role to play in improving the attainment of pupils across the Diocesan region.

What is our Purpose?

Working together with our school communities, providing an excellent education and life-enhancing relationships with the Christian faith and Jesus Christ.

We do this through:

Being a family of schools that is committed to well-being and supporting each other, so that all children, learners and staff across our Trust, flourish.
Connecting with each other to share practice and provide an excellent education that is built on distinctly Christian values.
A commitment to inclusion, ensuring that all learners thrive through an education that teaches wisdom, instils hope, nurtures community, and embeds dignity and respect.
Strong bonds of collaboration, innovative approaches to education and a shared purpose amongst schools, families, and communities.

What is our vision?

As a Diocesan Trust, our Christian values are intrinsically linked to our commitment to provide an innovative, high quality education, so that children and learners make excellent progress and fulfil their academic potential, by ensuring that:

We live out our Christian values to develop future citizens who can contribute positively to a caring, compassionate nation.
We share a Trust-wide commitment to providing an education that enables children and learners to flourish and achieve - academically spiritually, morally, socially, culturally, physically.
We celebrate diversity, address inequality, overcome disadvantage and raise aspirations so that learners can achieve their highest academic potential.
Access to an inspirational curriculum and excellent teaching enables our children to acquire a deep body of knowledge and a zest for life-long learning.
Our schools can thrive under outstanding local leadership, accountable to the Executive team and Board of Directors.
We identify talents and provide opportunities for staff to develop, pursue career developments and contribute significantly to wider improvements
We maintain a strong emphasis on safeguarding and the mental health and well-being of all our pupils and staff.
Our schools are self-sustaining, inclusive learning communities of professionals who connect and collaborate to share best practice and innovative approaches rooted in informed evidence.

Our Core Values

We value Difference

We are respectful of the:

Uniqueness of each individual school
Differences within each school and community

We value Local

Providing aligned support and central services to empower local leaders to make local decisions that meet the needs of the local communities

We value Collaboration

We value the opportunities to collaborate and work as a team to improve outcomes across our Trust

We value Inclusion

We welcome all and are committed to ensuring that each pupil receives an educational experience related to their own personal gifts or needs
We celebrate diversity and the individual talents of our pupils and staff

We welcome pupils of all faiths and none

We are a fully inclusive organization and encourage applications from individuals from minority communities.

About St James

Our Mission statement is Learning and Living through Jesus Christ. We live out this mission through a committed Christian leadership of the school and a close collaboration with St James’ Church. Our ethos is to welcome everybody of all faiths and beliefs and embrace diversity within a Christian setting.

As a faith school, our mission is to provide a Christian education for all children who attend our school. Our curriculum allows children to explore their own faith and the faith of others in a safe and caring environment which promotes learning and living through Jesus Christ to allow children to explore the awe and wonder of the world that God has created for us.

Further details about the role

Main duties/responsibilities

Be responsible for the learning and achievement of all pupils in the class/es ensuring equality of opportunity for all.

Be responsible and accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct.

Treat pupils with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect, and at all times observing proper boundaries appropriate to a teacher’s professional position.

Work proactively and effectively in collaboration and partnership with learners, parents/carers, governors, other staff and external agencies in the best interests of pupils.

Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the school.

Teaching and curriculum

Deliver the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subject/s that you teach.

Be responsible for the planning, preparation and development of teaching materials, teaching programmes and pastoral arrangements as appropriate.

Be accountable for the attainment, progress and outcomes of pupils.

Be aware of pupils’ capabilities, their prior knowledge and plan teaching and differentiate appropriately to build on these demonstrating knowledges and understanding of how pupils learn.

Have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs, disabilities and English as an Additional Language.

Review and update schemes of work in line with updates to the national curriculum.

Develop teaching materials and use resources and equipment effectively.

Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired as appropriate.

Behaviour and Health and safety

Implement appropriate health and safety policies and procedures in order to ensure a safe, effective and child friendly environment in all lessons and activities, raising any concerns following school protocol/procedures.

Actively seek out and implement best practice safety procedures.

Establish a safe, purposeful and stimulating environment for pupils, rooted in mutual respect and establish a framework for discipline with a range of strategies, using praise, sanctions and rewards consistently and fairly.

Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to pupils’ needs in order to inspire, motivate and challenge pupils.

Maintain good relationships with pupils, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary.

Be a positive role model and demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour, which are expected of pupils.

Have high expectations of behaviour, promoting self-control and independence of all learners.

Carry out playground and other duties as directed and within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.

Record keeping

Use an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives for pupils of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions, monitoring learners’ progress and levels of attainment.

Monitor and assess pupils’ results and progress, ensuring appropriate records are kept, and use the data to inform targets, lesson plans and differentiated schemes of work.

Give pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage pupils to respond to the feedback, reflect on progress, their emerging needs and to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study.

Participate in arrangements for examinations and assessments within the remit of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.

Professional development

Undertake appropriate and agreed continued professional development.

Participate in whole school and individual INSET programs as required.

Regularly review the effectiveness of your teaching and assessment procedures and its impact on pupils’ progress, attainment and wellbeing, refining your approaches where necessary responding to advice and feedback from colleagues.

Be responsible for improving your teaching through participating fully in training and development opportunities identified by the school or as developed as an outcome of your appraisal.

Team working and collaboration

Participate in any relevant meetings/professional development opportunities both at the school and across the Academy Trust, which relate to the learners, curriculum or organisation of the school / Academy including pastoral arrangements and assemblies.

To work in collaboration with others to develop effective professional relationships with partner schools in the Academy Trust.

Contribute to the selection and professional development of other teachers and support staff including the induction and assessment of new teachers.

To Cover for absent colleagues within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document.

To make a positive contributions to enhance teaching and learning with partner schools in the Academy Trust.

Deploy support staff effectively as appropriate

Communicate effectively with parents/carers with regard to pupils’ achievements and wellbeing using school systems/processes as appropriate.

To have professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school in which you teach, and maintain high standards in your own attendance and punctuality.

Communicate and co-operate with relevant external bodies.

Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school and The Levels Academy Trust.

Administration

Participate in and carry out any administrative and organisational tasks within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.

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.