Primary Teacher
Highfields Primary Academy, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN6 7JB16 days remaining to apply
Job start date
14 April 2025
Closing date
6 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 December 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday AYR
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
As a Primary Teacher you will teach pupils across the full age and ability of Key Stage 1 & 2 in order to ensure the highest possible standards of pupil achievement, personal development, and well-being.
Essential
• Graduate with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) • Knowledge of current educational practice and issues in primary • An excellent classroom practitioner • Knowledge of the provisions of national strategies, i.e., Literacy, Numeracy, and ICT • Effective use of ICT to support learning • Statutory curriculum requirements and requirements for assessment, recording and reporting of
pupils’ attainment and progress • Knowledge of the current professional teaching standards • Experience of teaching in a Primary phase • High level of written, oral and communication skills • Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing to a range of audiences • High level of organisational and planning skills • Evidence of sharing in and contributing to the corporate life of the academy • Work effectively as part of a team, relating well to colleagues, pupils, and parents • Ability to demonstrate a commitment to equality of opportunity for all pupils • Ability to investigate, solve problems and make decisions • Able to use own initiative and motivate others • Ability to relate to and empathise with pupils and to develop trusting and respectful relationships with
them • Respect for confidentiality of information concerning individual pupils and ability to use discretion in
circumstances of disclosure • Evidence of continuing professional development • Establish clear expectations and constructive working relationships in your own classroom through
team working and mutual support • Devolving responsibilities and delegating tasks where appropriate • Commitment to an involvement in extra-curricular activities
Desirable
• Knowledge of all phases of primary education • Implications of the Code of Practice for Special Educational Needs for teaching and learning • Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice/legislation
• Able to offer expertise in a specific subject or area
What the school offers its staff
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.
As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on your Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing. Here are just a few examples in each area…
Financial Wellbeing:
- Membership to either theTeachers’ Pension Schemeorthe Local Government Pension Scheme
- Technology scheme and Vehicle Leasing Scheme*
- Access to anextensivediscounts platform
Physical Wellbeing:
- 24/7 access to an online GPor Advanced Nurse Practitioner for you & your household
- Gym & fitness discounts
- Cycle to Workscheme*
- Free annual flu jab
Mental Wellbeing:
- Access to an industry leadingEmployee Assistance Programme
- Menopause Support Service
- TrainedMental Health First Aidersin all our settings
*Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained
Further details about the role
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 Highfields Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 111 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Highfields Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@highfieldspa.org.uk
Highfields Primary Academy is a vibrant and caring primary school situated in Doncaster. Our teaching team is highly motivated and driven by a desire to raise standards and improve outcomes for all our children. Highfields is an area of high deprivation and many of our children struggle with early communication. At Highfields Primary we give the children a wide, language-rich curriculum which enriches their lives and enables them to set their own personal goals and achieve them through dedication and hard work. The commitment of the staff to deliver these ambitious aims creates a positive environment in which staff work collaboratively to support and discuss all aspect of the children’s learning in a creative and purposeful way. This ethos means that parents and children are welcomed into our school and positive attitudes are fostered by adults and children. Leaders mentor staff and model great practice in an open and encouraging way. As a result, there is a clear and ambitious vision of the school’s future which the whole school community work towards together.
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