General Information

The following information is designed to help you complete the application form as effectively as possible. Please read the information pack paying particular attention to the job description and person specification. You may email a CV, however, you must still fully complete the application form and recruitment monitoring form.

Contact Details
Please complete this section fully.

Status
Please complete this section fully.

Employment Record
Please complete this section in date order, beginning with your most recent teaching job and listing all teaching roles undertaken since leaving school / college. You must include all previous employment.
Please continue with this section on a separate sheet if necessary. As a generic form for all teaching posts, this section is for teachers who are currently employed. However, if your application is for an NQT post, it would be useful if you could provide information regarding your last teaching placement or any supply work

Education / Qualifications
Please complete this section as fully as possible, we will require evidence of your highest and / or relevant qualifications before confirming an appointment and may check your qualifications with the relevant awarding body.

Relevant Experience & Skills
This is the most important section and must be completed fully.
During the short-listing process your teaching skills, experience and knowledge will be assessed against the selection criteria outlined on the person specification.
References
All offers of appointment depend on receiving satisfactory references. You must give two referees that have had managerial / supervisory responsibility for you, one of whom must be your Head teacher with your current / most recent school.

If you have not worked for some time or have not worked, give the name of someone who can comment on your ability to do the job.

NQTs – Please ensure that references include a tutor or lecturer from your teaching college and a reference from a mentor from one of your school placements, if appropriate.
References will not be accepted from relatives or from people writing solely in the capacity of friends.
We reserve the right to ask for substitute referees, if one of the references you have provided is not deemed to be suitable.

For certain posts we reserve the right to contact any previous employer for a reference at any time. The information pack will explain whether the post you are applying for falls in this category.
We will specifically enquire if disciplinary action has ever been taken or was pending. If you are currently working with children, either on paid or voluntary basis, your current employer will be asked about disciplinary offences relating to children, including any in which the penalty is “time expired” and whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns, and if so, the outcome of any enquiry or disciplinary procedure. If the applicant is not currently working with children but has done so in the past, that previous employer will be asked about those issues.

You may ask to see these references, however some of the information may relate to a third party, e.g. authorship. This type of information cannot be disclosed to you unless:
the third party has consented for it to be released or your right to know this information and its source outweighs the right to privacy of the third party.

Declaration of Criminal Offences
This post involves access to persons under 18 and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 by virtue of an Exception Order. You must therefore give details of all convictions or cautions or bind-overs you have, including those regarded as “spent” or any court case pending.

Dismissal or Disciplinary Action
Please provide details on a separate sheet. This will be considered alongside all other information provided in your application and will not automatically prevent your application progressing further.

Asylum & Immigration Act 1996 - Eligibility to Work
Please complete this section fully, relevant documentation will be checked for the successful candidate.

Declaring an Interest
Failure to disclose an interest will disqualify you from being appointed to a post with The Primary First Trust.

Additional Information / Special Arrangements
Please provide dates and times when you are not available for interview, plus any additional information we may need to consider.

Declaration
Please read this section carefully before signing your application form.
Failure to sign this part of the form will disqualify you from being appointed to a post with The Primary First Trust.

Personal Details
In order to make sure that The Primary First Trust’s policy on Valuing Diversity is working effectively, monitoring information needs to be collected and analysed. This information is confidential and will not be used for selection purposes.

Disability
The Primary First Trust is committed to ensuring that employees who have a disability are given every possible assistance in the workplace.
Advertising Monitoring
This information is required to ensure that The Primary First Trust can monitor the effectiveness of its recruitment advertising.

Checklist
Read through your completed application form carefully making sure you have fully answered all the questions.
If you have completed separate sheets make sure that these are numbered and clearly marked with your name.
Keep a copy of your application form for reference.
Make sure you return the application form in plenty of time before the closing date.

What Happens Next:
Your completed application form will be used to decide whether or not you are selected for interview.
Thank you very much for completing your application and recruitment monitoring form. We appreciate the time and effort you have taken to complete your form.

If you have any queries, then please refer to the advertisement for contact details.