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New Vacancies at Dunalley – Various Opportunities
Teaching Partner
If you are looking for a fantastic opportunity to make a difference to children’s learning at school, join Dunalley Primary; we are a flourishing school in a wonderful setting in the heart of Cheltenham.
We are delighted to be expanding our team and are seeking enthusiastic, reliable and committed colleagues to join us for the 2026 academic year.
These roles involve supporting high-quality teaching and learning across the school day, while contributing to the wider life of our vibrant school community.
Preschool Practitioner – 1 to 1
A wonderful opportunity has arisen for an outstanding professional to join our nursery team.
As a successful early years' practitioner, the successful candidate will play a key role supporting the healthy growth and development of our children. We welcome applications from candidates who:
• Have experience working in a nursery/preschool setting and can evidence this
• Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge every child
• Make use of observation and assessment to meet the individual needs of every child
• Plan provision taking account of the individual needs of every child
• Fulfil wider professional responsibilities by promoting positive partnership and working to support the child
• Lead practice and foster a culture of continuous improvement
Full details are available via the following links:
OPAL Play Partners
We are seeking to recruit additional members to our team of dynamic Play Partners who will support meaningful and productive child-initiated play during our lunch times at Dunalley Primary School.
This is a fabulous opportunity to join our team here at Dunalley as we implement a new, whole school play initiative.
Nestled in the heart of Cheltenham, Dunalley Primary School is a nurturing, community-focused school with a passion for our beautiful outdoor spaces and wider environmental issues.
Always seeking to innovate and improve our practices, this is an exciting time to join Dunalley as we continue to develop our school site including our wonderful outdoor spaces.
The successful candidates will work closely with the OPAL Play Coordinator, other lunchtime staff and members of the Senior Leadership team to facilitate play opportunities to embed play into the school’s lunchtime period. They will ensure that all our children have a meaningful lunchtime play every day by creating a safe and stimulating outdoor environment providing social, active and creative play experiences.
Whenever we have a vacancy
We welcome applications from people who are keen to make a difference and add that little extra.
Always seeking to innovate and improve our practices, this is an exciting time to join Dunalley as we continue to develop our school, nursery and pre-school.
Our school has a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We regularly review our policies on Child Protection and on Security, our child protection and safeguarding policy is available via the link below.
Applicants for all posts should include a declaration of any criminal conviction in their application, please review our policy on employment of ex-offenders available via the link below.
Short-listed candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration about any criminal records and share any information that may make them unsuitable for employment.
Successful candidates will undertake a full criminal record check via the DBS process.
What is it like to work at Dunalley
Find out what our current staff say about being part of the Dunalley Team in our Recruitment pack below.