The Role
We are seeking to appoint a committed, enthusiastic and creative teacher to join our KS2 team and work two days per week in a job share arrangement. Whirley Primary School is a warm, inclusive, and community-focused school where every child is encouraged to thrive.
Our creative curriculum, supportive team, and strong partnerships with families make Whirley a happy and inspiring place to learn and work. Applications are welcomed from experienced teachers and ECTs. The successful candidate will be a strong classroom practitioner with a focus on improving pupil outcomes. It is essential that they are sensitive to the needs and abilities of our pupils while ensuring that each pupil is appropriately challenged to achieve their potential. We are looking for someone knowledgeable and passionate about Primary Teaching with a personal drive to enable high quality classroom experiences and strong outcomes.
In return, Whirley Primary School can provide friendly children, a welcoming team of strong professionals, a stimulating working environment, supportive parents and a strong CPD offer.
Whirley Primary School is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children within our care. Suitable candidates will be subject to stringent enhanced checks as part of the selection process.
We welcome prospective candidates to the school. Please contact admin@whirley.ht.school to arrange a visit.
Our School Values
Guided by our core values of Respect, Resilience, Independence, Collaboration and Tolerance, we foster a love of learning and a strong sense of belonging.
Why work for the Halliard Trust
Who we are
We educate over 5,000 children and employ 900 teaching and support staff to deliver our vision to ensure every student leaves school with the values, skills, qualities and aptitudes to thrive in society combined with highest possible learning outcomes. Our core values of Respect, Integrity and Optimism underpin everything we do.
Formerly named The Fallibroome Trust, we have engaged with all of our stakeholders to choose a new name and are now called the Halliard Trust and are a school-led multi-academy trust which encourages its schools to work with a high level of autonomy and keep their own ‘personality’ and close ties to their local communities – always underpinned by strong support from the Trust leadership and the school improvement and business teams. We offer a wide-ranging programme of professional development for all employees to support those taking their first steps in education to those working as exceptional leaders.
The people you work with will support and motivate you in achieving your ambitions. Our exceptional teachers, support staff and leaders come from a wide range of backgrounds, but they all share a deeply held commitment to give our students an outstanding education in an inspiring and happy school environment. The Trust has grown organically to three secondary and eight primary schools based in Cheshire. The Trust operates from its head office in Macclesfield, Cheshire where the School Improvement and Business Support teams are based.
Working with the Trust
Everyone who works with us is crucial to the Trust’s success and professional learning plays a vital role in how we work. Successful teams are full of people who not only care but feel cared for and valued and subsequently take care in all they do. encourage and support every individual to develop themselves to achieve their full potential.
Benefits of working with the Trust
- High quality professional learning & development at all stages of your career
- Access to the Teachers’ Pension or Local Government Pension Schemes with a generous employer contribution rate
- Support staff have 26 days holiday entitlement rising to 31 days with service
- Free onsite parking at all sites
- Cycle to work scheme
- Confidential employee counselling helpline
How to Apply
We ask all applicants to apply through SAMpeople Recruit/Face-Ed; our recruitment software. This enables us to efficiently carry out our safer recruitment checks, but we recognise it can take some time for the applicant. The good news is, you will only need to register for Face-Ed once to apply for any role in the Halliard Trust's 11 schools.
We ask all applicants to apply through SAMpeople Recruit/Face-Ed; our recruitment software. This enables us to efficiently carry out our safer recruitment checks, but we recognise it can take some time for the applicant. The good news is, you will only need to register for Face-Ed once to apply for any role in the Halliard Trust's 11 schools.
Our tips for a painless process are as follows:
- Because SAMpeople Recruit is cloud based software, it is possible for you to experience a break in connection and you won't necessarily know about it straight away. We therefore strongly recommend that you prepare your main application content in a different package like MS Word/Notepad and copy and paste it into your application form in the relevant sections.
- If you get a message saying "Validation Error" it isn't a software fault. It means you have entered data in a format that wasn't expected and it is causing a problem with saving. This might mean you have entered words in a box that expects numbers, for example.