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.