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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    16 June 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    3 June 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term - 12 month FTC - Maternity or parental leave cover

Full-time equivalent salary

M1- UPS3, £31,360 – £49,084- Pay Award Pending

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Key Stage 2 Teacher to join our friendly and supportive team on a 1-year maternity cover contract. This is a great opportunity to become part of a nurturing school community where staff and pupils thrive.

The role would suit an Early Career Teacher (ECT) looking to gain valuable classroom experience and develop their practice in a collaborative environment, or an experienced teacher seeking a rewarding short-term position.

The successful candidate will:

  • Inspire and engage pupils through high-quality teaching and learning
  • Demonstrate a strong understanding of the KS2 curriculum
  • Be a team player with a positive attitude and strong communication skills
  • Be passionate about creating an inclusive, supportive, and stimulating learning environment

We offer a welcoming school with a commitment to professional development and wellbeing for all staff.

Redhill is a newly built one form entry primary school on the edge of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire and has a culture of ambition, high expectation and aspiration academically and in social behaviours of both staff and students. Redhill is a cooperative school which has values and an inclusive culture woven throughout its curriculum and daily routines. This culture embraces safeguarding, personal development and welfare along with an engagement and commitment from all of the school staff to do the very best it can for individuals.


What the school offers its staff

Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

  • An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
  • Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
  • Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
  • Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
  • Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
  • Free Eye Tests
  • Cycle to work scheme

  • Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.

Further details about the role

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.

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

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About Redhill Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 2 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
219 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 11
Ofsted report
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Redhill is a newly built one form entry primary school on the edge of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire.

With just over 200 children on roll and their own pre-school unit on site, they cater for children from 2 to 11 years of age and are fortunate to be able to offer smaller classes than your average primary school.

Redhill has a culture of ambition, high expectation and aspiration academically and in social behaviours of both staff and students.

Redhill is a cooperative school which has values and an inclusive culture woven throughout its curriculum and daily routines. This culture embraces safeguarding, personal development and welfare along with an engagement and commitment from all of the school staff to do the very best it can for individuals.

The vision, ethos and strategic direction of the school show it is committed to preparing students positively for life in modern Britain.

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