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  • Start date details

    Required for February 2025

  • Closing date

    30 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    17 January 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 2

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term - Up to a year - Maternity or parental leave cover

Pay scale

Teachers Pay Scale

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and innovative qualified teacher with high expectations to join our friendly team.

What we are looking for an excellent classroom practitioner who:

  • is flexible, dynamic and proactive
  • has recent experience of teaching in Lower Key Stage 2
  • has high expectations for all children


What the school offers its staff

Your opportunity

This is a temporary maternity cover position but could lead towards a permanent role in the future. As a Fircroft staff member, you will be an important part of this great school where everyone is valued. You'll be supported by a friendly, forward-thinking leadership team and an amazing local community.

All our staff enjoy regular and relevant professional development and have opportunities to lead areas of the school. We value a creative curriculum and we want our staff to be dynamic in their thinking and teaching and brave enough to take risks. Our classes are smaller than average and our pupils are very well behaved.We really are like a little village school in London!

We offer:

  • Inner London salary
  • An engaged and enthusiastic community of parents, carers and children
  • High quality teachers’ admin support
  • An enriched curriculum with specialist teachers (Music, Spanish and PE)
  • A minimal marking policy that encourages verbal feedback
  • Well behaved pupils

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
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.

An Application Form, Job Description and Person Specification can be downloaded below or from the Wandsworth Council website https://jobs.richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk/.

For any further details please contact the school on the telephone number below.

Completed application forms should be emailed to office@fircroft.family or posted to the school to arrive by 12 p.m.

Closing date: Thursday 30th January 2025 (at noon)
Interviews: Week commencing 03 February 2025
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment subject to an enhanced DBS check.

We do not accept CVs.

Fircroft Primary School
Fircroft Road, Tooting
London SW17 7PP Tel: 020 8672 6258
Website: www.fircroft.family E-mail: office@fircroft.family
Headteacher: Mrs Denise York
Roll: 281

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Appointment subject to an enhanced DBS check.

We do not accept CVs.

This job post has expired.

Additional documents

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

About Fircroft Primary School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary school
School size
281 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report

As a Fircroft staff member, you will be an important part of this great school where everyone is valued. You'll be supported by a friendly, forward-thinking leadership team and an amazing local community. All our staff enjoy regular and relevant professional development and have opportunities to lead areas of the school. We value a creative curriculum and we want our staff to be dynamic in their thinking and teaching and brave enough to take risks. Our classes are smaller than average and our pupils are very well behaved. We really are like a little village school in London!

Arranging a visit to Fircroft Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@fircroft.family.

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