13 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    11 May 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    28 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 1

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£31,650.00 - £54,726.00 Annually (Actual) M1 - UP3 + TLR2b

Team Leader job summary

St Matthew’s Primary School are looking for a Team Leader to join their vibrant school in September 2025.

Our Team Leaders are responsible for a year group team of four classes including their own, with this vacancy being responsible for a KS1 year group.

Whilst St Matthew’s is one of the largest primary schools in Luton, it has a calm, personal and happy atmosphere. We are a big school with small community habits and pride ourselves on everyone’s personal, academic and professional well-being and this is a cornerstone of our ethos. The sense of being in an ambitious, supportive family is often commented on by children, parents, staff and visitors alike.

Getting the right people to work with our children is paramount for us, so if you want children to feel safe, be happy, be excited, love coming to school and to progress each and every day, maybe you should join our team.

From our new Team Leader we would ask you to:

  • Be an exemplary practitioner

  • Understand school improvement

  • Be able to monitor year group performance

  • Be able to deploy year group resources to best impact the progress of all pupils

  • Have had demonstrable impact in your current role

  • Challenge and support the professional development of your team

  • Have a perspective wider than your own class or team

In return we can offer you:

  • A truly child centred, friendly and holistic school

  • A strong team and school community

  • A safe and nurturing environment for our staff as well as our pupils

  • A supportive and solution focused leadership team dedicated to school improvement

  • Recruitment and Retention allowance available for exceptional candidates

As well as:

  • Dedicated specialist teams to support the work of teachers e.g. PE team, Language team and Family team

  • Teaching Assistant support in all year groups

  • Lots of extra-curricular activities and trips for the children

  • Progression pathways

  • Access to an Employee Assistance Programme

  • Comprehensive whole school CPD programme

  • Comprehensive individual CPD programme e.g. NPQML

  • Onsite parking

  • A well-equipped staff room, access to school lunches and a central location with many amenities in very short walking distance

We all know a picture speaks a thousand words, so a visit to St Matthew’s is the only way to understand why you would want to work here…people who step over our threshold are amazed by the atmosphere, calmness and vibrancy of our school.

So call for an informal chat about the post, arrange a visit or apply now and take a step towards your future career at St Matthew’s!

Applications are being considered on receipt. If you are interested in joining our school, you are strongly encouraged to apply as early as possible as the closing date may be brought forward without prior notice if a suitable candidate is found.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS). CVs will not be accepted for any posts based in schools

Commitment to safeguarding

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS). CVs will not be accepted for any posts based in schools.

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.

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About St Matthew's Primary School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
833 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
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St Matthew’s Primary School is a popular, oversubscribed and happy school full of enthusiastic and well behaved children eager to have fun learning. We are a well-resourced and energetic school which is well supported by parents, governors and the wider community.

Alongside our mainstream provision we host a Behaviour Provision on behalf of the Central Area Partnership (CAP), made up of nine schools.This provision supports children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs that can make full time mainstream education difficult for them. The aim of the provision is to provide an environment, pastoral and educational experience that keeps them moving forward in their learning but focuses specifically on their personal, social and emotional development.

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