Isle of Wight Council

Required: December 2023- August 2024

Hunnyhill Primary School is looking for a qualified, experienced, inspirational, and hardworking teacher to join us based in Year 5, KS2. This is a fixed term position until August 2024. 

You will be passionate and committed to raising the achievement of all children and will be willing to work as part of a team, share good practice and be ‘Proud to Belong’.  In addition, you will be dedicated to setting high expectations of pupil achievement and behaviour. You must be able to provide and maintain a stimulating classroom environment that promotes children’s learning and development.

We are a highly inclusive school and pride ourselves in building relationships with our families.  We feel this is fundamental to enabling all children to achieve the very best they can, therefore you will be an effective communicator with parents, children and your colleagues and be willing to contribute to the wider aspects of school life.

If you would like to be part of a supportive staff team, working with enthusiastic and dynamic children, within an excellent safeguarding and inclusion ethos, then we would love to hear from you.

We welcome the opportunity to show interested candidates around our School. Please contact the school to make an appointment via email office@hunnyhillschool.co.uk

Hunnyhill Primary School is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.  The Governors are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.  All successful applicants will be required to obtain enhanced DBS clearance.

An Application Pack can be requested from sbm@hunnyhillschool.co.uk

Completed application packs should be returned to Hunnyhill Primary School addressed to Sam Hillier - School Business Manager, Hunnyhill Primary School, Newport, I.W. PO30 5SH or via email sbm@hunnyhillschool.co.uk

PLEASE NOTE: Not all school staff are employed directly by the Isle of Wight Council, you can ask on application who the employer for this role will be.

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The Isle of Wight Council protects its employees from discrimination and this is supported by the Unacceptable Behaviour Policy, Employee Code of Conduct and Behaviours Framework. We actively promote the diversity of our workforce and we provide flexible working options (where appropriate) to support the different needs of our employees.

The Isle of Wight Council is an equal opportunities employer, proud to encourage applications from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities to better reflect the diversity within our local community. In addition to this, we are also a Disability Confident Employer. Along with a number of other areas of commitments, this means that providing you meet the basic essential requirements of the advertised role and have declared yourself as disabled, you will be offered an opportunity for an interview within the council.

This role falls within the strategic partnership between the Isle of Wight Council and Hampshire County Council. The employer will be the Isle of Wight Council and employment is on Isle of Wight terms and conditions. Hampshire County Council has delivered, on behalf of the Isle of Wight Council, all of its children’s services functions and will continue to do so until 2023. The original five-year partnership arrangement under direction of the Secretary of State finished in 2018 but has been extended voluntarily by both local authorities for a further five years.

The management reporting line for this role is ultimately through Hampshire County Council Children’s Services Director/Assistant Director and managers who take operational responsibility for children’s services.

This council and its schools recruit according to the council’s Recruitment, Policy and Procedure and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.