KS1 Class Teacher - Maternity Cover
Sandhills Community Primary School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8FNThis job expired on 4 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
4th November 2024
Closing date
4 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 September 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,000.00 - £46,525.00 Annually (FTE) Teachers' Main Scale/UPS - This post is suitable for ECTs. Applications will be considered as and when they are received. Therefore, we would recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.
KS1 Class Teacher - Maternity Cover job summary
Are you someone who is committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for the children that you teach? Do you aim for all pupils to become confident, secure, caring individuals who achieve personal success and develop a love of learning? We are looking to welcome an individual to our KS1 team, teaching our current Year 1 class in a full time maternity cover role.
We are looking for a candidate who:
Can work with colleagues, parents and carers to improve outcomes for all pupils
Is a team player with excellent communication skills
Is resilient
Is able to make an impact on our school and local community
Is Interested in developing their own teaching in line with research
Is a lifelong learner
Sandhills Community Primary School is a friendly and welcoming school on the outskirts of Oxford city Centre. Our school is a community that supports and encourages everyone to work hard and to care for each other through our values of Respect, Relationships, Responsibility and Resilience. We expect our pupils to do their best and are committed to creating a positive learning environment in which all our pupils can succeed.
The school is a welcoming school, with a hard-working, supportive and friendly team of staff. Our pupils are curious and enthusiastic to learn. They are proud of their school and enjoy being part of this welcoming community. Sandhills offers a fantastic working environment with great indoor and outdoor facilities including a large sports field, an amphitheatre and extensive wild area. Our school community extends to highly supportive families, Governing Body and PTA
We are proud of our Good Ofsted rating and offer all our children an ambitious curriculum, based around our school values of Respect, Responsibility, Relationships and Resilience.
We look to ensure all our pupils achieve their potential both academically and as citizens of the future.
Our Senior Leadership Team is ambitious about driving high standards of teaching and learning, and improving outcomes for all children.
The school is also part of an extensive professional network across the River Learning Trust, which encourages collaboration, research and learning for all pupils, teachers and parents in the school community.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with the Headteacher about the role prior to application, then please email the school office office@sandhillsprimary.org or telephone 01865 433000.
The River Learning Trust and Sandhills Community Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
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.
About Sandhills Community Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 233 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
Sandhills Community Primary School is an inclusive school serving several vibrant and diverse communities on the outskirts of Oxford. There are currently 228 students at the school. We offer our children an ambitious curriculum, based around our core values of Respect, Relationships, Responsibility and Resilience, to ensure that all children have the opportunity to achieve their potential both academically and as citizens of the future. The school has recently been rated “Good” by Ofstead in October 2022.
Sandhills Community Primary School is part of the River Learning Trust, which presents opportunities for leaders and staff to work collaboratively and efficiently together between schools in the community. There is an extensive professional network across the Trust which supports and enhances collaboration, research and learning opportunities for pupils, staff and parents.
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