Main Pay Scale Teaching Vacancy - Full-time Starting 13 April 2026 or ASAP

Swinton Queen Primary School, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, S64 8NE

26 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  4 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  7 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: M1-M6

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for someone who:

• Believes reading is the key to a good curriculum
• Wants to engage with current educational research and development
• Is an inspirational teacher who upholds high expectations of learners
• Holds a passionate belief in the inclusion of all children and the ability to respond to the challenge of inclusion

• Has excellent classroom management skills, focussing on an inclusive and relational approach
• Can use assessment to move children’s learning forward
• Has good planning and preparation skills
• Has a strong commitment to working in partnership with pupils, staff, governors, parents and the community
• Is enthusiastic, resourceful, passionate and keen to ensure that the highest possible standards of pupil achievement, personal development and well-being are achieved.

• Is a fun, keen teacher who will become an active part of the life of our school

What the school offers its staff

We are looking for someone who:

• Believes reading is the key to a good curriculum
• Wants to engage with current educational research and development
• Is an inspirational teacher who upholds high expectations of learners
• Holds a passionate belief in the inclusion of all children and the ability

to respond to the challenge of inclusion

• Has excellent classroom management skills, focussing on an inclusive and relational approach
• Can use assessment to move children’s learning forward
• Has good planning and preparation skills
• Has a strong commitment to working in partnership with pupils, staff, governors, parents and the community
• Is enthusiastic, resourceful, passionate and keen to ensure that the highest possible standards of pupil achievement, personal development and well-being are achieved.

• Is a fun, keen teacher who will become an active part of the life of our school

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.

Due to the promotion of one of our teachers, we have a vacancy for a fantastic teacher to join our school. We hope to find someone who is enthusiastic and wants to work with great children, supporting them to achieve high standards. We want to support a teacher who is aspirational in their career, seeking opportunities to be a wonderful classroom practitioner and work alongside enthusiastic colleagues.

We will work with the newly appointed teacher to decide which year group they will teach. The vacancy is from January 2026, though we will wait for the right person to be able to start with us, as long as that is by the start of the summer term.

Visits are warmly encouraged. Please contact us via email (enquiries@sqp.wwpat.org or 01709 570438) to arrange to view the school and meet our head teacher, Paul Higginbottom.

Closing date: Monday 4th December at 12PM.

Interviews will be held on: Tuesday 9th December.

Application forms are attached to the job advert via the Trust website.

Commitment to safeguarding

The School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the successful candidates will have to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check(DBS).

This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level.

Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found: at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Swinton Queen Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 339 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Swinton Queen Primary School website
• Email address: enquiries@sqp.wwpat.org
• Phone number: 01709 570438
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/swinton-queen-primary-school-mexborough

1.5 form entry primary school.

Arranging a visit to Swinton Queen Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email enquiries@sqp.wwpat.org.

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