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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    24 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    10 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 2

Working pattern

Part time: Two days per week, Monday - Tuesday (40%)

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Successful candidates will:

  • Be up to date with current practice and national curriculum and assessment expectations
  • Be highly motivated and have consistently high expectations of themselves and others
  • Be committed to high standards of learning, teaching and behaviour
  • Be a good communicator and highly organised individual
  • Be an outstanding, skilled classroom practitioner
  • Have an industrious attitude to their role

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

  • Engaging and enthusiastic pupils who will make you smile each day
  • A commitment to personal professional development which is tangible
  • A supportive school team that understands and foster well-being
  • A stimulating and enjoyable working environment where each day is engaging and thoroughly enjoyable

Further details about the role

We require an experienced KS2 teacher to work at Witham Oaks Academy in Witham. This position is to job share for 40%, 2 days per week, Monday – Tuesday.

With a desire to support and develop practitioners and ensuring working in education is fulfilling, Inspires MAT are seeking an experienced and highly effective practitioner to work at Witham Oaks Academy who will further enhance the learning experience for our children and help them develop as well-rounded individuals. We are seeking a candidate who can evidence outstanding practice and have experience within the primary phase.

We are a professional and collaborative learning community with a culture of high expectations - both academic achievement and personal and social development. We offer a curriculum that is exciting, vibrant and promotes a love of learning and a dedicated, passionate and friendly staff but most importantly amazing children.

Quotes from our children regarding what they are looking for:

  • ‘A great sense of humour’
  • ‘Enthusiastic about us and what we are capable of’
  • ‘Intelligent and knowledgeable’
  • ‘Challenges us, in every subject’
  • ‘Breaks our learning down into small parts that help us understand’

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

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How to apply
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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About Witham Oaks Academy

School type
Academy, ages 7 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
273 pupils enrolled
Age range
7 to 11
Ofsted report
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Arranging a visit to Witham Oaks Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@Inspiresmat.co.uk.

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