PPA Cover Teacher

Your Role

Prestolee Multi Academy Trust are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and adaptable PPA Cover Teacher to join our team at Mesne Lea Primary School. The ideal candidate will have a strong work ethic and a dedication to supporting pupils’ learning across a range of year groups, delivering high-quality lessons in an engaging and consistent manner. Unfortunately, this role is not suitable for ECTs.

Who We Are

As a group of schools, Prestolee Trust has a shared vision. We act as one organisation and bring context to individual needs. Our schools are geographically close and yet serve diverse communities. The vision describes the future that speaks to that community.

The vision for Prestolee Multi Academy Trust is that our children are prepared for the next stage of education and life in modern Britain. This means children have access to a broad rich curriculum offer with a wide range of activities. We believe in an inherently strong core of English and Mathematics, together with strong specific academic foundation subjects focused on knowledge and skills.

We strive for excellence in quality first teaching. Career progression opportunities and development of knowledge and skills through CPD, networks and other professional programmes and training are key to our success. Our trust is relentlessly focused on improvement; in self, in others and in the organisation.

About You

We are looking for a person who has:

• Proven strong teaching practice
• Experience of teaching across a range of Key Stages
• The ability to deliver high-quality lessons across different classes and subjects
• Excellent literacy, numeracy, and ICT skills
• Excellent skills in team working
• The ability to build positive relationships quickly with pupils
• Strong behaviour management skills in a range of classroom settings
• Commitment, flexibility, and enthusiasm
• A desire for continued professional development
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Our Offer

• A dynamic and developing Multi Academy Trust of schools with a SCITT for career development in teaching and learning.
• Opportunities across the Trust to widen skills, experience, and professional development in a variety of settings.
• Welcome, friendly, and inclusive schools within the Trust
• A committed Trust and School leadership and committed multi school teams.
• Well-motivated pupils
• A Trust committed to staff wellbeing and career development for all

Closing date: Sunday 7th June 2026 at 6pm

Interview/observation: Week commencing 15th June 2026

Start date: 2nd September 2026

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Prestolee Multi Academy Trust 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.

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, all offers of employment are subject to appropriate pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, references, an online search and verification of right to work in the UK.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and you will be required to disclose any unspent convictions.