Teacher (Maternity Cover) - Radipole Primary School

4 weeks ago


Weymouth Dorset, United Kingdom Dorset Council Full time

About The Role

Radipole Primary School

Class Teacher – Fixed Term (Maternity Cover, September 2024 through to August 2025)

Pay Point MSP1-MSP6

Required from September 2024

Radipole Primary School would like to appoint an inspirational and enthusiastic teacher to join our friendly and talented team from September 2024 to cover a period of maternity leave.The position will be fixed term for one academic year September 2024 to August 2025.

We are dedicated to supporting the development of our children’s emotional wellbeing, as well as helping them build the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable them to thrive at school and beyond.

We are looking for additional colleagues who can nurture, motivate and enable children to achieve highly: someone who will inspire children, parents and colleagues alike to delight in learning.

The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate:

  • a love of learning, with real energy and enthusiasm;
  • high expectations for all pupils;
  • a commitment to working closely with colleagues to share and develop skills and expertise;
  • an inspirational, methodical and creative approach to teaching and learning;
  • a commitment both to the professional teaching team of the school and to the wider school community;
  • a commitment to helping the school live out its vision.

    We can offer:

  • exceptionally caring, polite and well-behaved children with a love of learning;
  • a highly experienced, talented, supportive and approachable team of colleagues;
  • a shared determination to inspire children to learn;
  • a leadership team ready to support you fully in your professional development;
  • a well-resourced and modern learning environment in a beautiful natural setting;
  • a large designated forest nature reserve on site
  • a highly trained and ever-developing Wellbeing Team working through the school;
  • a governing body dedicated to the wellbeing of the children, families and staff as well as the success of the school.

Applications from both experienced and early career teachers are welcome. Radipole Primary School is a wonderful and truly exciting place to work.As well as excellently resourced classrooms and facilities such as our library, ICT suite and swimming pool, we have a huge nature reserve on site which the children use every week. We would welcome visits to the school.

We will use the person specification for the post to shortlist applications. When applying, please address each of the criteria to ensure we can invite you to interview.

Interviews will take place week commencing 20th May 2024.


Further Information

Radipole Primary School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

Radipole Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to have an Enhanced DBS check in line with government safer recruitment guidelines.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Radipole Primary School will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.

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