Y2 Class Teacher

Widey Court Primary School, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5JS

Deadline is tomorrow

• Job start date

  22 April 2025

• Closing date

  10 March 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1
• Working pattern: Full time: Monday to Friday, 1.0 FTE
• Contract type: Fixed term - Summer Term 1 - April to May 2025
• Pay scale: Main Pay Scale

What skills and experience we're looking for

Connect Academy Trust is looking to appoint a dedicated and creative teacher to join our Academy to cover a sickness absence in the Summer Term. Following this post, there may be further full-time job opportunities in September 2025.

As part of the Academy Trust there is the opportunity to work in any of our schools, however this post is initially situated at Widey Court Primary School.

You could be the person we appoint if you are:

- inspiring and motivated with the potential to be an outstanding teacher;

- committed to excellence, inclusion and high expectations;

- highly effective in the planning, teaching and evaluation of all lessons;

- able to maintain positive relationships with pupils, colleagues and families;

- willing to motivate others, seek and accept advice;

- rigorous in ensuring all pupils make good progress;

- able to contribute to the wider life of the school;

- ready to lift the ceiling on expectations of children.

What the school offers its staff

Connect Academy Trust Connect is a family of 8 large, successful, and happy primary schools. The Trust now educates over 3500 children with 550 staff, in both Plymouth and Torbay. As a member of our team, we can offer you:

- A highly supportive school invested in your growth and professional development.

- A Trust culture that promotes diversity, equality and social justice.

- A supportive approach for all staff and an innovative approach to appraisal.

- Comprehensive induction and wide-ranging opportunities for professional development.

- An opportunity to be part of a forward focussed and growing Trust, author of the UK’s first ocean conservation curriculum & national winner of the Community Impact of the year Trust award 2023!

Further details about the role

If you are interested, please complete an application form and email it to Miss G. Dingley, School Operations Lead, gdingley@wideycourt.plymouth.sch.uk

Closing date: Monday 10th March 2025 at 9:00am

Interviews: Wednesday 19th March 2025

School tours are welcomed. To book, please call 01752 773909.

Connect is fully committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required to be undertaken and an on-line check of publicly available information will be completed to assess the successful candidate’s suitability to work with children

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 will be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
Childcare disqualification
Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service
Medical checks
Online and social media checks
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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to gdingley@wideycourt.plymouth.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

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

Temp Teacher Advert NEW.pdf - 284 KB (opens in new tab)

MPS Teacher Job Description (1).pdf - 91 KB (opens in new tab)

About Widey Court Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 602 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Widey Court Primary School website
• Email address: gdingley@wideycourt.plymouth.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01752 773909
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/widey-court-primary-school-plymouth

Arranging a visit to Widey Court Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email gdingley@wideycourt.plymouth.sch.uk.

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