Teacher - King's Wood School
Location: High Wycombe Community Board
Overview
Are you looking to join an innovative school that supports your professional development and offers a range of leadership opportunities?
At King’s Wood School and Nursery you will have the opportunity to join an enthusiastic, hard-working and supportive team committed to the best outcomes for children. You will be teaching pupils who love coming to school.
Salary type: MPS/UPS
Salary Details: MPS/UPS
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Part-time
Closing date: 24/10/2025
Interviews to be held: On receipt of suitable applications.
About us
King's Wood is a happy and caring community school that works to ensure every child reaches their full potential. It is a place where everyone values, respects, supports and helps one another. Our aim is to provide a rich and stimulating environment for your child to promote learning, initiative, self-discipline and responsibility both within school and the wider community.
Website: www.kingswood.bucks.sch.uk
About the role
We are looking to appoint a part-time 0.5 teacher to be part of a class job share, initially in KS2.
The role makes provision for joint planning non-contact time in order to ensure a smooth transition for the children. We have a number of successful job shares at King's Wood already and for the right candidate this is an excellent way to maintain a work life balance.
About you
The successful applicant will:
Be an excellent classroom practitioner
Be driven to attain high standards for all pupils
Have the ability to work effectively as part of a team
Please see the attached job description and person specification.
Applications welcome from ECTs, Main & Upper Pay Scales.
For further information please see attached Person specification.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.
Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel No: 01494 521401
Email: [email protected]
Safeguarding statement: We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children, which will be reflected throughout the recruitment process. An enhanced DBS check is carried out on all staff prior to appointment
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
