Proposed Interview Date: Tuesday 10 February 2026 

Closing Date: Wednesday 4 February 2026 

Contract Type: Temporary Until 3 July 2026 

Salary: £33,594 to £50,589 

Working Pattern: 35 Hours per week, 39 weeks per year 

Location: Fair Isle Primary School 

Purpose and Values of Education Directorate 

The Education Directorate is committed to Improving Life Chances for All through a wide range of direct services which support our children, young people, families and the wider Fife community.  Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values:  Compassion, Ambition, Respect and Equity which reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the directorate.  We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with children, young people, their families, and the wider community in partnership with those who support them. 

Supporting Statement    

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement. 

Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement: 

Ways in which you have modelled and promoted the GTCS Professional Values (social justice, trust, respect and integrity) and Professional Commitment in your current and previous roles?   
 
(Consider the following:  how you have promoted health and wellbeing for all; how you have built positive relationships build on trust and respect; how you have motivated and included all learners; how you have demonstrated your values and moral purpose?) 

Ways in which you demonstrated your professional knowledge and understanding of learning, teaching, assessment and curriculum through an enquiring stance.   

(Consider the following:  how have you increased your knowledge of research and used this to enhance, and apply, individually and collaboratively to inform your professional practice; how is your professional commitment evident in your engagement with professional learning that has enhanced your practice; how have you used innovation and creativity including the use of digital technologies to motivate and engage learners?) 

Ways in which you have effectively planned to meet all learners needs? 
 
(Consider the following:  how you have used assessment evidence as an integral part of the teaching process to support and enhance learning, which has led to a positive impact on outcomes for learners?) 

Ways in which you have built and sustained positive relationships that have led to positive outcomes for learners  

(Consider the following:  how have you have demonstrated care and commitment when actively engaging with learners about their wellbeing; how have you established positive and purposeful relationships within your school community; how have you worked collaboratively with others to improve outcomes for learners?)  

Job Details 

We are looking for a highly-skilled Teacher who is passionate about improving life chances for all through a professional commitment to leading change and improvement that ensures positives outcomes for our children and young people.  As a principal teacher in Fife you will be responsible for supporting the senior leadership team by contributing to the strategic vision for the schools, working with a wide range of stakeholders to implement and pursue the objectives set in policies, and for contributing to the development of a self-improving system across the education community. 

Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements 

You are required to have high levels of interpersonal skills and abilities which will enable you to work as a member of a team to ensure positive outcomes for all children and young people in your setting. 

You are required to demonstrate a commitment to your own professional learning as a practitioner through career-long professional learning activity and to be able to show how this has impacted on your practice. 

Before confirming your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme. 

Full General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) registration. 

For posts within Primary, you are required to be fully registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) in Primary. 

For posts within Secondary you are required to be fully registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) in Secondary for the specific subject. 

You are required to model all behaviour expected of a teacher in Scotland in line with the relevant Professional Standards.  

Full registration is required for all Permanent posts, for temporary class teacher posts, provisional GTCS registration in the relevant sector will be considered. 

Candidates holding GTCS registration in Further Education must also hold Primary or Secondary registration to meet the essential criteria as determined by Fife Council.  For teaching specific subjects you must be fully registered with GTCS to teach those subjects. 

For further information regarding Fife Council’s essential criteria for GTCS registration please review: Essential Criteria for GTCS Registration 

Further Information  

For further information please contact: Vicky Bell at [email protected]