Start: January 2025
Salary: MPS-UPS
Location: Withywood (near Bristol/Bath)
Contract: Part-time 0.5
Term: Permanent
We are looking for a part-time EYFS Class Teacher to join out fantastic Pre-School team.
Four Acres Academy is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and well-motivated class teacher who will join our committed and successful team. The successful candidate will be hard working, flexible, creative and driven to providing the highest standards for our pupils. All our classes have a teaching assistant assigned to them. The successful candidate will have good interpersonal skills and the dedication to work as part of a team.
Our school has a determination to improve the lives of our children and uses positive relationships effectively to deliver this ambition. Candidates will be expected to show how they are able to develop positive relationships with pupils and our committed staff.
This is a fantastic opportunity and would be suitable to experienced practitioners as well as early career teachers, who would be able to benefit from our successful and supportive Futura Learning Partnership ECT Induction Programme. This position is a 0.6 part-time position with flexibility to negotiate working days across the week.
The Academy:
Four Acres Academy is a 60-pupil entry primary school with capacity for 483 pupils aged 2-11 (including a 2-year-old nursery provision). Staff work in Key Stage group teams to collaboratively plan and deliver high quality lessons. All teachers are supported by teaching assistants and our support staff play a critical role in securing outstanding progress in pupils’ learning. We have amazing grounds, a forest school area and great resources. We have recently had an Ofsted inspection, which was deemed good, with outstanding for personal development.
Futura Learning Partnership strives to be an equal opportunities employer and is keen to attract the most highly talented individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds.
Our School can offer:
- A competitive salary
- A full and varied CPD programme offering teaching and leadership development for our staff
- Excellent resources, particularly within ICT and forest schools
- Wider opportunities to be involved across the Futura Learning Partnership
- Benefits include; pension scheme, discounted sports centre/gym membership, free wellbeing support & medical cover, free on-site parking and cycle to work scheme.
Futura Learning Partnership is a partnership of schools which span 5 local authority areas: Bath & Northeast Somerset, Bristol, North Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Working together to provide a high-quality educational experience for all students in their care and be a truly inclusive provider of 2-18 education in the area. We are a mixed MAT, comprising 6 secondary, 21 primary and a special school. We work in partnership with the Diocese of Bath and Wells, which brings considerable benefit to all our schools.
The closing date for applications is: 23:59 on 8th November 2024
Interviews are likely to be held w/c 18th November 2024
PLEASE NOTE: Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of the advertisement.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to visit prior to applying, please phone the Academy office to make an appointment.
No CVs or agencies please.
To apply:
- Download the JD/PS, Recruitment Pack
- Click on the ‘apply’ button within the vacancy advertised on the Futura Learning Jobsite
- Complete and submit your online application before the closing date.
Futura Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Your suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. For this post, prior to appointment Futura Learning Partnership will apply for a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring check, a Children’s Barred list check, two satisfactory references, satisfactory pre-employment health screening, online searches and for Teachers, a Prohibition Check in relation to the children’s workforce. In some settings a Declaration will be required in order to meet our obligations under the ‘Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006.
The Academy meets the requirements in respect of “exempted questions” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and is thereby a Registered Body with the Disclosure Service provided by the national Criminal Records Bureau. It conducts checks as necessary, with the applicant’s permission, under the Criminal Record Bureau’s Code of Practice.
Jobs working with children (i.e all under-18s) or vulnerable adults are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) by virtue of an amended Exceptions Order. This means that you cannot withhold information about any spent or unspent convictions in applying for this post. You are also asked not to withhold information about cautions, reprimands, final warnings, bans and other non-conviction information such as police enquiries and pending prosecutions.
Checks may also be made with Local Authority Child Protection Registers where you have lived in the past. In applying for this post you are giving permission for such Registers to be checked and for the local authorities concerned to share relevant information with Four Acres Academy for the purpose of your application for employment. You are also giving permission for any number of past employers to be contacted regarding this application for employment.
“Front line” and certain other posts e.g. supervisory/management will require Disclosure checks at an Enhanced or Standard level; others may be at Basic level. The level of Disclosure for this post is shown in the Person Specification.
Details of our Safeguarding policy can be found on our website: www.fouracresacademy.co.uk