Saltash Community School
PL12 4AY
Salary:
Grade E | £25,185 pro rota
Job type:
Full Time, Maternity Cover
Apply by:
10 October 2025
Job overview
Saltash Community School is seeking to appoint 2 new members of staff to support SEND and mainstream students at Saltash Community School.
We are looking for passionate and driven individuals who will share our commitment to excellence and our desire to achieve the very best outcomes for our students.
We encourage applications from individuals who are looking to change career and have transferable skills and experiences, as well as those with prior experience supporting young people in the classroom. You may well have an interest in developing your own practice/experience as an education professional.
Saltash Community School is a co-educational 11-18 school of over 1200 students, including a successful sixth form and incorporating an Area Resource Base; a specialised environment for children with severe and complex learning needs. Saltash is a friendly, caring, supportive and ambitious school with people and relationships at its heart. Here at Saltash, we are determined to improve the life chances of every single student on roll, developing happy and healthy citizens who make a positive contribution to our local community and to wider society.
Contract: Maternity cover / 1 role to start ASAP / 1 role to start in January 2026.
To find out more information about the school, please
visit our website.
Visits to the school are most welcome. Please contact Gaynor Bersey, Operations Manager, to make an appointment on or by email to
An application form and further details are available from:
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Please email completed application forms to
Closing date: 9am on Friday 10th October 2025.
Interview date: w/c 13th October 2025.
We are unable to accept applications made via CVs or applications from agencies.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks and references, including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, the Trust will undertake an online search of all shortlisted candidates.
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About Saltash Community School
Saltash Community School
Wearde Road, Saltash
Cornwall
PL12 4AY
United Kingdom
OVERVIEW
The school is a mixed 11 to 18 comprehensive school established in its present form in 1968. The school converted to Academy Status in April 2011, and became part of a Multi Academy Trust (SMART) with one of its partner primaries, Landulph, in January 2014. The SMART family expanded in 2016 to include Liskeard and Looe Secondaries along with Dobwalls and Trewidland Primaries. Situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, it occupies a 13 acre site overlooking Plymouth Sound and the Tamar, Tavy and Lynher rivers.
We serve our partner primary schools in the town, the rural primary schools at Landulph and St Germans as well as an increasing number of students from Plymouth and further afield in Cornwall.
We are proud of our livestock area containing pigs, rabbits, ducks, chickens and goats along with several allotments which enhance provision in many curriculum areas.
Our extensive sports fields, including a superb floodlit all-weather pitch, are amongst the best in the county, enabling us to offer a wide range of different sports to our students and local community.
VALUES AND ETHOS
Our Trust is committed to developing SMART Learners, SMART Leaders and SMART Communities. This means that everyone's voice is heard and we commit to support every person in our Trust on their own personal learning journey.
At Saltash Community School, our mission statement is 'Achieving More Together': we are committed to working together with all our community to enable everyone to overcome their barriers and to thrive as active citizens; developing the skills, knowledge and cultural capital they need to achieve their aspirations: students and staff alike.
Our TEAM Core Values of Tenacity, Empathy, Aspiration and Motivation underpin all we do. If you share these values and are committed to inclusive comprehensive education with wellbeing at its heart, then we would love to hear from you.
WORKING FOR US
If you're searching for your next teaching post, why not contact us now? You'll be working at a great school and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed teachers - send us your CV now via our School Talent Pool and say what sort of role you're looking for.
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