Class Teachers - Fixed Term
Contract: Contract 
Closing date for applications:
4 February 2026, 12.00pm 
Job Advert
Class Teachers
Contract type: (Maternity Cover positions – fixed term)
Location: Education Learning Trust
Required from: April 2026
Salary: Main Scale / Applications welcome from ECTs
Closing date: Wednesday 4th February 2026 12.00pm
Shortlisting date: Wednesday 4th February 2026 pm
Interview date: Wednesday 11th February 2026
The Education Learning Trust is seeking to appoint highly motivated Class Teachers across its three primary schools: Gatley Primary School, Meadowbank Primary School and Bredbury Green Primary School. Applications are welcome from ECTs.
Are you an inspirational teacher, passionate about delivering a rich and engaging curriculum that offers a wide range of learning experiences both within and beyond the classroom? Are you driven by research and eager to implement innovative initiatives that continually enhance your practice? Do you want to work in a school where staff wellbeing is a genuine priority?
The successful candidates will be exceptional teachers with skills to enhance school life by bringing their skills and talents to enrich our team in order to maximise opportunities for pupils. They will have high expectations of themselves and others, and this will reflect the Trust’s approach of collaboration and empowerment in order to achieve. The successful candidates will also demonstrate a real commitment to safeguarding and safe working practices which is fundamental to the Trust’s ethos and values.
Within each of our schools, we can offer the successful candidates:
- an opportunity to learn and develop together and from each other
- an aspirational working environment with a strong focus on professional development and empowerment
- opportunities to implement initiatives based upon educational research
- a well-structured curriculum with creative opportunities for all
- a high functioning, friendly staff team who are committed to the school
If you do have a preference of school, you may specify this within your application letter.
For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.
About ELT:
Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 490 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities.
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
- exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
- school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
- opportunities for professional development and leadership
- a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
- Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place, which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across the school. This is in line with statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002 and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.
It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.’
We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).
Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Completed applications should be emailed to: hr@educationlearningtrust.com
Interview Date: 11 February 2026