Class teacher
| Posting date: | 01 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2026 |
| Location: | Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 4YX |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | b33e40c1-e632-4c38-acd5-66bc2fd59caa |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we are looking for?
We want to hear what you can bring to our community. We are seeking practitioners who -
• Are creative & innovative: can demonstrate an inspirational drive to take risks and implement new ideas
• Can create a safe, stimulating and enjoyable environment for our wonderful young people to feel secure, be valued and actively develop their curiosity, engagement and love for learning?
• Are reflective & resourceful: dedicated team players who are curious and eager to grow
The Principal and Governors wish to appoint candidates who will continue to drive our school forward. Are you ready?
What the school offers its staff
Cavendish High Academy is a very successful special school for young people aged 11-19 years old with severe learning difficulties. Due to a period of significant growth, we are looking for creative, reflective, resourceful and innovative practitioners to join us. We’d love to hear what you could bring to our team that would benefit our school community.
Why Cavendish?
We are a Leading Edge school, providing education to young people with special educational needs in a caring and professional environment. We are a school with a strong community culture and have been recognised for our work with parents and families through the Leading Parent Partnership award. We are forward thinking and outward facing. We have been awarded the Leading with a Moral Purpose and Climate for Learning strand of the SSAT - Exceptional Education Framework at transforming level which is the highest standard they award, recognising our practice as amongst the most effective nationally.
Do you love learning and enjoy developing your practice to ensure it is the very best it can be ? You will have the opportunity to benefit from bespoke training & CPD as well as networking & professional dialogue days with your colleagues and peers both within and outside of Cavendish, to ensure that you can continue to develop professionally.
We don’t just support your career; we actively encourage our staff to engage with research and development opportunities at local, regional, and national levels for the benefit of our amazing young people.
We demonstrate our care and commitment to staff through providing BUPA private health care and support for collaborative & flexible working for teachers through sector- leading, dedicated, non-contact time in addition to standard PPA time.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Who we are looking for?
We want to hear what you can bring to our community. We are seeking practitioners who -
• Are creative & innovative: can demonstrate an inspirational drive to take risks and implement new ideas
• Can create a safe, stimulating and enjoyable environment for our wonderful young people to feel secure, be valued and actively develop their curiosity, engagement and love for learning?
• Are reflective & resourceful: dedicated team players who are curious and eager to grow
The Principal and Governors wish to appoint candidates who will continue to drive our school forward. Are you ready?
What the school offers its staff
Cavendish High Academy is a very successful special school for young people aged 11-19 years old with severe learning difficulties. Due to a period of significant growth, we are looking for creative, reflective, resourceful and innovative practitioners to join us. We’d love to hear what you could bring to our team that would benefit our school community.
Why Cavendish?
We are a Leading Edge school, providing education to young people with special educational needs in a caring and professional environment. We are a school with a strong community culture and have been recognised for our work with parents and families through the Leading Parent Partnership award. We are forward thinking and outward facing. We have been awarded the Leading with a Moral Purpose and Climate for Learning strand of the SSAT - Exceptional Education Framework at transforming level which is the highest standard they award, recognising our practice as amongst the most effective nationally.
Do you love learning and enjoy developing your practice to ensure it is the very best it can be ? You will have the opportunity to benefit from bespoke training & CPD as well as networking & professional dialogue days with your colleagues and peers both within and outside of Cavendish, to ensure that you can continue to develop professionally.
We don’t just support your career; we actively encourage our staff to engage with research and development opportunities at local, regional, and national levels for the benefit of our amazing young people.
We demonstrate our care and commitment to staff through providing BUPA private health care and support for collaborative & flexible working for teachers through sector- leading, dedicated, non-contact time in addition to standard PPA time.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.