Main Scale Class Teacher
Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB2 6LX13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
20 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 June 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 year
Pay scale
- M1 to M6
What skills and experience we're looking for
• Is passionate about children’s learning and welfare; putting them first in everything you do with an uncompromising vision for achievement for all.
• Is an excellent classroom practitioner with a proven track record of moving children’s learning forward.
• Is enthusiastic about working as part of a highly committed team and be involved in all aspects of school life.
• Is a reflective learner, flexible in your approach, open to new ideas and motivated by challenge.
• Is able to establish and maintain excellent relationships with the whole school community.
What the school offers its staff
• A welcoming school with a strong, caring Christian ethos, extremely happy, well behaved andmotivated children and a parent community who value what we do.
• Supportive, hardworking and ambitious colleagues who put the wellbeing of children and eachother at the heart of everything they do.
• Carefully planned CPD tailored to meet the needs of each individual.
• An extremely well resourced, attractive working environment in beautiful surroundings.
• A supportive and involved Governing body who value their staff and take active steps to monitorworkload.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to bursar@wensleyfold.blackburn.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 454 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy website
- Email address
- bursar@wensleyfold.blackburn.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01254 667449
At Wensley Fold we provide a happy, secure and supportive learning environment where the children develop independence and work hard to make the most of their talents, and ‘Make Each Day Count’ within a deep and rich curriculum.
We believe a close working relationship between home and school is vital to support our children’s learning. We encourage teachers and parents to form a partnership that actively shares in our children’s education.
At Wensley Fold we take pride in our safeguarding culture which permeates everything that we do and where everyone takes responsibility for safeguarding, we recognise our moral and statutory responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils. We endeavour to provide a safe and welcoming environment where children are
respected and valued. We are alert to the signs of abuse and neglect and follow our procedures to ensure that
children receive effective support, protection and justice.
We support the values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs and these are embedded within our curriculum. We aim to empower children to have a voice and to stand up against discrimination, valuing equality, tolerance and mutual respect.
At Wensley Fold we believe that every one of us is loved unconditionally by God. We avoid, at all costs, diminishing
the dignity of any individual to a stereotype or a problem. We offer a community where everyone is a person known and loved by God, supported to know their intrinsic value.
We empower people to be their authentic selves, enabling them to realise and achieve their authentic selves,
enabling them to realise and achieve their full potential and celebrate differences.
Wensley Fold CE Primary Academy has a proud history of academic achievement within a nurturing and supportive
learning environment. The Academy has had an OFSTED rating of Outstanding for over fifteen years and was again deemed Outstanding following an inspection in September 2023. At the last SIAMS inspection in October 2018 the Academy was rated excellent.
At Wensley Fold children receive an excellent education where they flourish and thrive. We look forward to receiving applications from both Early Career Teachers and Main scale Teachers who would like to join our team.
Arranging a visit to Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email bursar@wensleyfold.blackburn.sch.uk.
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