Class Teacher

New exciting opportunity to teach in a brand new resource provision. Are you the inspirational primary school class teacher to come and join our highly motivated team?

Parkway Primary School is at present one form entry school with a provision for 40 children with MLD and an exciting brand new provision for 30 children with SLD about to open, serving a diverse community where children demonstrate outstanding behaviours for learning, and high levels of motivation. 

At Parkway, we enable all our children to be the best that they can be by providing them with curriculum opportunities that enable them to achieve and experience opportunities which may not be readily available outside of school. 

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure and other employment checks.

We would be delighted to receive applications from both experienced and early career teachers. Visits to the school are welcome week beginning 6th November 2023

For further information about the school please visit the school website: www.parkway.bexley.sch.uk

What we offer:

• Well behaved children who enjoy coming to school and eager to learn
• You will be given high quality continuous professional development to further career development, including leadership at all levels which includes enrolment on the NPQ programmes.
• Termly subject release time on top of the 10% PPA
• Sharing of excellent practice through the collaboration of Bexley maintained schools
• Friendly, dedicated and supportive staff
• A SEN increment point for those teaching in the resource provision
• Well-resourced growing school, including minibus, forest school, large outdoor areas
•  Outer London weighting making a difference to your pay (equivalent to a two increment point increase compared to non-London schools)
• a supportive Governing Body

Parkway Primary is committed to equality and diversity in employment practice and service delivery and expects employees to comply with our values of promoting equality and diversity, treating colleagues and service users with dignity and respect at all times. This commitment must be evidenced in practice. Any behaviour that falls below these standards is unacceptable to the School and potentially constitutes misconduct.

The closing date for applications is 01.12.2023 and interviews are scheduled for w/c 04.12.2023.

Only applicants shortlisted for interview will be contacted.

References will be requested for applicants shortlisted prior to interview.

Applicants invited to interview stage will be required to complete a Self-Disclosure form. An example of the self-disclosure pro-forma is available to view from the downloads section below.

Further vetting checks including an enhanced DBS incorporating a check of the Children’s Barred List *delete where n/a, will be required on provisional offer.

This post is considered to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English Language Requirement for Public Sector Workers. Parkway therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages