Job title: KS2 Teacher
FTE: 1FTE
Location: Charfield Primary School
Contract type: Permanent
Charfield Primary School is looking for a full time teacher to join their dedicated team from September 2026.
About the role
You will play an essential role in shaping the academic confidence of our children. You will help our pupils transition smoothly into the formal National Curriculum, creating a vibrant, inclusive, and warm classroom where high expectations go hand-in-hand with nurture. Working as part of a collaborative team, you will deliver on our trust's ambition to provide an exceptional education for every child.
Key responsibilities include:
- Plan and deliver high-quality, effective lessons that meet pupils' individual learning needs and cover all areas of the Key Stage 2 curriculum.
- Evaluate pupil progress, set clear expectations, record assessments, and provide constructive feedback to ensure students achieve well relative to their prior attainment.
- Work closely with colleagues, families, and external agencies to foster a growth mindset in pupils and support school-wide policies and quality assurance.
- Ensure the safety, safeguarding, and welfare of all students while managing classroom behavior in line with school guidelines.
About you
We are looking for a dedicated, agile, and approachable professional who can act as a positive role model for our students and a collaborative partner to our staff. You will:
- Hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and have proven experience teaching at the relevant Key Stage.
- Be ICT proficient with an excellent, up-to-date knowledge of the National Curriculum and wider educational developments.
- Demonstrate fantastic initiative and are agile enough to meet the changing needs of a dynamic school environment.
- Be personable, approachable, and able to build positive, supportive relationships with pupils, peers, and families across the trust.
- Model excellent standards of punctuality, consistently implement school policies, and are a vigilant advocate for safeguarding.
About us
Charfield Primary is a small and friendly school set in beautiful grounds in the centre of Charfield Village.
Charfield aims to inspire, ignite and encourage a passion for lifelong learning, sparking curiosity, promoting creativity and nurturing developing passions to ensure that children grow and thrive on their journey through school. Our curriculum places huge importance on reading and a love of books. It also promotes the ‘big ideas’ of diversity, society and exploration.
Our dedicated team of staff model themselves as lifelong learners and put our children’s best interests at the heart of everything they do, working hard to ensure children remain challenged, motivated and engaged with their learning throughout their time with us. The school boasts wonderful facilities such as a forest-style school, large playing fields, climbing equipment and surrounding woodlands.
We value enthusiasm, responsibility and resilience and expect our children and staff to demonstrate these values daily. We also believe in the importance of courage when trying new things, collaboration and teamwork to achieve things together and the importance of always being respectful to one another.
Our Headteacher leads both Charfield and Tortworth Primary Schools, and while your main base will be Charfield, on occasion you may be asked to support at Tortworth. This collaborative approach allows staff to share expertise and strengthen provision across both schools.
We can offer you:
- Happy, engaging students who thrive on inspirational leadership
- A supportive trust and school community
- Strong collaboration across the trust family of schools and access to a centralised team of specialists across all areas of school operations
- A commitment to high‑quality CPD, with dedicated time and budget for your development
- A values‑driven ethos where diversity, equity and inclusion are lived every day
- Recognition of continuous service (modification order) to protect employment rights and entitlements
- Teachers’ Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions and death‑in‑service cover
- Occupational sick pay to support you during illness or unexpected emergencies
- Family‑friendly leave packages to help maintain a healthy work–life balance
In order to apply for this role please complete an application form by Monday 18th May, 9am. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 20th and Friday 22nd May. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the process.
Please know that depending on the number of applications received we may decide to close the advert early. If you do not hear from us by a week after the closing date then please assume that you have not been shortlisted for an interview. We wish you all the best in your future and ask that you join our E-Teach Talent Pool so as to keep up to date with all of our latest current opportunities.
Join us in Providing a Great Education for Every Child
CSET is committed to equal opportunities and encourages applicants from all backgrounds and communities, as we recognise the importance and benefit this has for our pupils.
CSET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Successful candidates will be required to provide a disclosure of any unspent convictions and cautions, as well as any spent convictions or cautions that are not "protected" (i.e., filtered) under the Amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). All appointments are subject to a comprehensive pre-employment checking process. This includes an Enhanced DBS check (including a Children’s Barred List check), satisfactory references, medical fitness, Right to Work in the UK, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching/management check. In line with KCSIE guidance, we will also conduct online searches on all shortlisted candidates.
Our full Recruitment and Selection policy is available on our website.