Inspiring Primary Class Teacher – Maternity Cover

Location Windale Primary School

Salary FTE Salary PT1 (£36400.00) – EPT3(£53040.00) dependant on experience

Windale Primary School is situated on the edge of Oxford City and is ideally located for anyone wanting to live either in the vibrant inner city or in our nearby villages and towns. The school is located near to the Oxford United football ground and is a quick 20-minute commute, through beautiful villages, from the new housing developments in Didcot and direct trains to London Paddington.

Windale is a single-storey modern primary school, built around two courtyards and has fabulous grounds including a large playing field and forest. We also have our sensory garden, vegetable beds, pond and even an outdoor pizza oven!

The school offers excellent professional development and career progression. Teachers, ECTs and Support Staff all benefit from high-quality, supportive CPD. Our staff are motivated, hardworking, and great team players - new staff quickly become part of our Windale Team.

Windale Primary School is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life-changing education to children and young people across England. United Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All positions are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online check.We

always appoint on merit, and we are open to discussing flexible working options.

Salary FTE Salary PT1 (£36400.00) – EPT3(£53040.00) dependant on experience

Job Title:
Class Teacher (Maternity cover)

Fixed Term post 1 st September 2026 - 31 st August 2027

At Windale Primary School, we are looking for a teacher to join us as part of a wonderful and supportive job share. The current teacher is about to go on Maternity Leave.

You may be early on in your career, or you may be more experienced. You should have the drive for high quality teaching and learning and want to be part of working in a school that sits at the heart of its community.

Windale Primary School is situated on the outskirts of Oxford City, within Blackbird Leys and Greater Leys. Your work will have the power to transform life opportunities where it is needed most.

We are looking for talented individuals who want to work within our fabulous staff team, transforming education for our amazing children. You will need to be:

• An excellent teacher with secure subject knowledge and be committed to on-going professional development.
• Passionate in your practice
• Aspiring to be a future leader with pace, drive and clear potential to build a successful team as we grow.

Windale Primary School is part of United Learning, a large and growing group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities and training e.g. NPQS, better pay, additional benefits and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It is an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

United Rewards, covering lifestyle and retail benefits including childcare vouchers, car lease scheme, cycle to work etc.

Every member of staff has a responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people with whom they come into contact.

We take the safeguarding of students and staff seriously. All staff are expected to support this ethos.

All applicants will be subject to a safer recruitment process, including disclosure of criminal records and other vetting checks; the interview will include questions about safeguarding and protecting children.

References will be requested, and an online search will be completed for all shortlisted applicants who are invited to interview. On the day of interview all shortlisted applicants willbe required to provide photographic  asked to complete a Self-disclosure form.