Teacher - Full-time

The Viking Academy Trust

• Ref:KCC-F20-57-T
• Posted:30/04/2025
• Pay:MPS
• Start Date:September 2025
• App Close Date:06/06/2025 at 09:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Upton Junior School is looking for a teacher to join our friendly and dedicated staff team in September. 

Applications are welcome from ECTs looking for their first step in their teaching career or experienced teachers looking for a new environment and different challenge. Although we are a Junior School, we do welcome applications from candidates with Key Stage One experience. 

We are looking for someone who:

• Shares our driving force of 'One Childhood, One Chance'
• Wants to be a great teacher in a great school
• Wants to join a large and effective team
• Is aspirational for every child
• Has high expectations and standards, because we do!
• Wants to be part of the ‘Viking Academy Team’, working with staff across the Trust to drive standards for all of our Viking children.

We can offer you:

• A school with a consistently strong history of success
• Supportive teams and Heads of Year working alongside Senior Leaders
• Support and coaching for professional development
• Experienced leadership at all levels
• Genuine commitment to and resourcing for well-being
• Middle leadership opportunities for experienced applicants
• Comprehensive and supportive induction (including well established ECT support and mentoring)
• Strong working partnerships with the other schools in our Trust – Ramsgate Arts Primary and Chilton Primary

We strongly encourage candidates to arrange a visit to the school prior to applying for this role. Please email the Head of School, Miss Arthur, to arrange a visit (headofschool@uptonjunior.com)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. This may be so that we can interview prior to the 31st May. 

The Viking Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). 

The Viking Academy Trust is an inclusive and accessible employer, we are committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process. Viking Academy Trust also embraces and cultivates an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace. We welcome colleagues with different backgrounds, perspectives and capabilities.

Information about the trust

The Viking Academy Trust is a primary only, Multi-Academy Trust consisting of three inspirational schools: Upton Junior School, Chilton Primary School and Ramsgate Arts Primary School.

Our One Childhood One Chance philosophy resonates throughout everything we do at the Viking Academy Trust.

At Viking, we make sure that our ultimate focus and core purpose remains excellent teaching and learning for every child. Our teaching is progressive and adaptive and we strive for the best outcomes for all. We invest time and training into our staff so that they can invest their skills and expertise into our children.

For children to thrive, they need to feel that they belong. Our people and our environments are warm and welcoming. Every member of our staff invests in building strong relationships with children and getting to know children well means we can focus on equity of opportunity.

This means that we can prioritise social and emotional learning along with the academic as we know that children need to learn how to be resilient, to have healthy and safe relationships and to face the world with problem solving skills.

We nurture children to become responsible citizens, ready to face the modern world and to make the most of their every potential both academically and socially. At Viking schools, we have high standards and expectations and we know how to support children to reach them.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Leonie Roke, HR Assistant
• Address:Upton Junior School,
  Edge End Road,
  Broadstairs,
  Kent,
  CT10 2AH
• Telephone: 01843861393
• Email: HRA@vikingacademytrust.com

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