Recruitment

Working at our School

Recruitment

The Trust is proud of the high level of staff retention at Wootton Park School and our developing reputation as a centre of excellence.

We have recruited the very best staff to join our Headteacher, Mrs Kayleigh Smith’s team to teach and mature your children at Overstone Park Primary School. They deserve the best.

Further roles will be published on this website and advertised in national, local and specialist media as appropriate, from January 2025. If you are interested in working for the school or wish to give your time as a Governor, please contact us and we will get in touch in due course.

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If you are made an offer of employment, then it will be conditional and subject to confirmation of the following:

• receipt of at least two satisfactory written references (one of which must be their current or most recent employer). A reference from the last place worked with children will always be requested;
• verification of the applicant’s identity, preferably from current
  photographic ID and proof of address;
• verification of the applicant’s medical fitness;
• verification of qualifications where relevant;
• verification of professional status where applicable. For teachers, this will include checking that the individual has the required teaching qualification and has successfully completed any statutory induction, if required, through the Teacher Services System;
• satisfactory enhanced DBS check;
• satisfactory online searches and social media checks;
• for management positions (Applicable to governors/trustees, Headteachers, members of the Senior Leadership Team and departmental heads), verification that they are not subject to a section 128 direction by checking the Teacher Services System;
• for teachers and other employees who hold QTS who are working in non-teaching roles, verification that they are not subject to a prohibition order by checking the Teacher Services System. This check is also completed for any employees who complete ‘teaching work’ as defined by The Teachers’ Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012;
• for teachers, satisfactory check to determine any restrictions/sanctions that have been imposed in other EEA member states, through the provision of a letter of professional standing from the professional regulating authority in the country where they qualified;
• a clear children’s barred list check (except supervised volunteers);
• verification of right to work in the United Kingdom;
• any further checks where the applicant has lived or worked outside of the UK, including receipt of criminal record information from overseas;
• confirmation that the applicant is not disqualified from providing childcare;
• a utility bill dated within the last 3 months or another form of verification of your current address;
• original birth certificate;
• proof of NI number.