Teacher

Burford Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 6FX

Deadline is today

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  22 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  6 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 31650.00 - 49084

Teacher job summary

Teacher

Required from September 2025

Full time

Permanent

Main Scale Points 1-6 or Upper Scale Point 1-3

 

Burford Primary & Nursery School is seeking to appoint an excellent teaching practitioner who have high expectations of pupil progress and a drive for self-development.

 

Sitting on the border of the City of Nottingham in Arnold, we are a single-form entry school with around 50% of catchment eligible for Pupil Premium. Our teaching team go above and beyond to ensure learning is exciting and engaging and our wider school community ensure children at Burford know they belong and feel safe.

 

We warmly welcome interest from individuals who are child-centred, passionate about making a real difference, have high expectations and thrive on challenging both themselves and others to keep on improving. 

 

We are looking for inspirational teachers who are committed to creating a stimulating learning environment through excellent classroom practice.

 

You will:

 

●      Be a consistently good / outstanding primary teacher

●      Be passionate about teaching and learning and making a difference to every child.

●      Care passionately about children and their development whilst still driving forward pupil progress and achievement.

●      value a team working approach and be keen to contribute and share your skills with colleagues

●      Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to build on and maintain strong relationships with staff, parents and carers, children, governors and the local and wider community.

In return we offer:

•            A welcoming community and a highly motivated, professional staff team that are driven

              towards continuously raising standards.

•            Excellent professional development opportunities through an extensive range of network groups and other Transform Trust initiatives

•            Calm and purposeful learning environments

•            Excellent partnerships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and community

•            A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school

•            Career opportunities as part of a successful Multi Academy Trust

 

Visits are encouraged and welcomed. Please contact Suzy Stephens-Jephcote on 0115 9151560 to arrange an appointment.

How to apply

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and as such anyone who is registered disabled and meets the essential person specification criteria will be shortlisted for interview.

Please complete the online application form which you will find on the Transform Trust website. https://transformtrust.face-ed.co.uk/vacancies

Any questions or queries should be directed to Lisa Lister at Burford Primary and Nursery School on headteacher@burford.nottingham.sch.uk or Telephone: 0115 9151560

Closing date for applications: 22^nd May 2025

Interview date: Thursday 5^th June 2025

 

Transform Trust is a Multi Academy Trust with over 8800 children in 25 Primary Schools covering Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Derbyshire. Joining us, you will be part of an ambitious and innovative organisation. We have a strong focus on empowering our member schools to drive their improvement journey whilst maintaining their own individual identity and community focus.

We believe education has the power to transform lives and communities. Our purpose is to be an innovative and inclusive Trust working for all children.

We are an employer that encourages flexible working and promotes wellbeing through workload considerations.

Commitment to safeguarding

Transform Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures and pre-employment background checks, including satisfactory references, medical, Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list clearance, online and social media checks and completion of relevant safeguarding training including Safeguarding Children in Education
All school roles are classed as regulated activity and as such, it is an offence to apply to for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Burford Primary and Nursery School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 226 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Burford Primary and Nursery School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/burford-primary-and-nursery-school-nottingham

Our vision is summed up in the 3A's - Attend, Aspire and Achieve - which is our school motto.

Our aim at Burford is to promote achievement in every aspect of our children’s life. We strive to ensure every child achieves the highest possible academic standards whilst working to develop the character of all children so they become resilient, empathetic, critical thinkers.



We work to broaden the life experiences of our children to show them the myriad opportunities they have . We do this in the hope that our children will go on to make a positive contribution to wider society as they grow up.

o achieve our aims we know there must be consistently strong, innovative teaching in school that is responsive to children’s needs and interests. This means we must have an exciting, broad and balanced curriculum that makes learning fun, engaging and purposeful. Our curriculum must also encourage practical experiences, it must be immersive and responsive to current events.



We also strive to develop a culture in school where children and staff are happy and enthusiastic about learning in the widest sense of the word. This culture grows when children and staff have relationships that are warm and built on mutual respect.

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