Teacher (Mat Cover)
Highfields Spencer Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE23 3UXThis job expired on 20 October 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
20 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 Hours a week. Monday to Friday.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 Year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- M1 to M6
What skills and experience we're looking for
- A qualified teacher with a passion teaching
- Someone who embodies our RISE values in every interaction
- A creative and reflective practitioner who brings learning to life
- A team player who thrives in a collaborative environment
What the school offers its staff
- A welcoming and inclusive school culture
- A supportive leadership team and collaborative staff
- Engaged and curious learners in our Year 1 class
- Opportunities for professional development
- The possibility of a permanent role
Further information about the job
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Highfields Spencer Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 233 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Highfields Spencer Academy website
- Email address
- Info@highfieldsspencer.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01332 955599
This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be the Principal of a thriving and expanding primary school located between Findern and Mickleover, and 4 miles south west of Derby.
This position offers the chance to work with:
• A diverse and inclusive school at the centre of a newly built community
• A body of children who are happy and who enjoy coming to school
• A visionary, successful and outward facing MAT
We opened in September 2020, in a brand new building, initially housing nursery and reception age children only. We now have classes from nursery to year 3 and will be accommodating all year groups by summer 2026. We pride ourselves on our ‘Rainbow’ values of ‘respect, achieve, inspire, nurture, belong, open and well-being’.
Our recent Ofsted report celebrated our strengths in a number of areas which were graded as good. Our principal is relocating for September 2023 so we are looking for an experienced and inspiring individual who can oversee the next phase of our journey towards outstanding when we are next inspected.
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