Exciting Opportunities for Early Career Teachers across Devon

Exciting Opportunities for Early Career Teachers at Primary Schools across Devon and Torbay starting 1st September 2026, initially fixed term until 31st August 2027.

The Academies for Character and Excellence has twenty Primary Schools across Devon. We want to grow an exceptional Trust, comprised of excellent schools, through our shared core values of Collaboration, Community, Integrity, Equity, and Uncompromising Excellence. Our church schools reflect the Church of England’s vision of education for ‘Life in all its Fullness’, enabling all to flourish.

We are truly collaborative, working together within and across our schools to ensure that through our full and rich curriculum, all our children achieve their full potential. We aspire to achieve more than just academic excellence; we want our children to become healthy thinkers, curious explorers, caring citizens, knowledgeable participants, and confident individuals.

We are looking to appoint exceptional candidates who:

• Will be committed to ensuring that all children achieve the highest possible outcomes.
• Have a passion to ensure high expectations for all teaching and learning.
• Ensure outstanding pedagogy which inspires, motivates, and challenges pupils to be the best that they can be.
• Have an understanding of collaborative learning.
• Will work in partnership with the headteacher, local advocate board, and the wider community to ensure that our mission and ethos is translated into action.

What the school offers its staff:

• An exciting and innovative Trust that will inspire and allow you to reach your full potential through our Talent Management Program.
• Collaborative support within Trust Improvement Groups.
• Enhanced support from an Early Careers Teacher Lead that will work closely with you as part of your development.
• Collaborative support from other ECT professionals from within the Trust.
• A Trust which cultivates pupils through character development leading to a stimulating and innovative curriculum.
• Polite, happy, and engaged children with a great enthusiasm for learning.
• The opportunity to work with like-minded professionals across the Trust enabling continuous professional support.

Our ECT program includes receiving excellent ongoing support through those critical early years of the teaching profession. In addition to school-based training and mentorship, ECTs are afforded the opportunity to take part in our own custom-made training program based on the ACE curriculum. Each session has a key focus and is led by a leading practitioner in that field. This training program has proven invaluable to our ECTs who collaborate with each other as they develop best practice.

We are looking for applications from like-minded people who share our Trust values and enjoy working in a collaborative culture. If you want your potential to be unlocked, and your talent managed, then we would love to hear from you!

Commitment to safeguarding:

Our organisation 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. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), medical, online and social media prohibition from teaching, right to work, satisfactory references, suitability to work with children.

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands, or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.