Job title: Trainee Teacher

Location: Various locations

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Start date: September 2025

Summary

United Teaching is a school-based teacher training programme designed to give you the best start for your teaching career. As an Ofsted Outstanding provider, we develop outstanding teachers.

Our one-year programme offers salaried and self-funded teacher training for aspiring primary and secondary educators. With over 100 schools nationwide, you can train to teach in a location that suits you.

As a United Teaching trainee, you are immersed in your school from day one. You will spend the year gaining first-hand experience and refining your skills as you go. We are committed to bringing out the ‘Best in Everyone’, and we support you every step of the way with research-led training, mentorship, subject-knowledge development, and wellbeing support, so you have everything you need to excel in your teaching career.

It's a path taken by thousands of successful teachers, and you could be next.

Job vacancy description-salaried

With United Teaching, you can become a fully qualified primary or secondary teacher in 12 months. You’ll get to share the love you have for your favourite subject and help improve the lives of children every day. Explore the subjects available.

This is a salaried position; to be eligible, you must have experience working with young people, good academic qualifications (including a degree), transferable skills, and a demonstrable commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of young people.

You will be in the classroom from day one, with a reduced timetable, to ensure practical and valuable experience from the very beginning. You’ll be a valued member of your teaching team, empowered to lead your own classes from the start, with continuous support from mentors, colleagues, and advisors. And if you want even more experience, there is also an option to join your school before September and work as a Teaching Assistant.

We have 107 schools so you can train to teach in a location that suits you. Our course has been designed to bring out the best of your teaching talents quickly, efficiently, and comprehensively, with support from subject specialists and dedicated mentors throughout. Our goal is to prepare tomorrow's teachers and education leaders.

Some of our salaried courses are run through the government’s apprenticeship scheme. This will not differ from our regular salaried route in terms of course content; it simply enables our schools to access funding for your training.

Job vacancy description – Self-Funded

With United Teaching, you can also become a fully qualified primary or secondary teacher in 12 months. You’ll get to share the love you have for your favourite subject and help improve the lives of children every day. Explore the subjects available.

This is a non-salaried position; however, you may be eligible for financial support such as a bursary, scholarship, or student maintenance loan. Find out more about funding your teacher training.

Application process

Find out how to apply.

Applying as an international student? See our guidance for international candidates.

Need help with your application? Contact us and we’ll be happy to help.

Qualifications

GCSE Grade C+ in English language, maths and science (science for Primary trainees only)

A Level grade combination of at least BCC (minimum Grade B in the subject you want to teach)

A degree in the subject, or relevant to the subject, that you wish to teach at Grade 2:2 or above

Start date information

Our summer institute takes place in summer and helps prepare you for your official start in September 2025.

Sustainability position

United Learning is committed to becoming net carbon zero by 2030. We have always been an organisation with a clear social mission, and this is an area in which we can lead the way. We are educating the next generation for their future lives, and we are all conscious that those lives will be profoundly shaped by decisions this generation makes affecting our climate and environment. There is no more important challenge facing the world today than climate change and it is therefore our duty and moral imperative to shift the way our organisation operates to more sustainable practices.

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