2i/c Business Studies
The Compton School, London, N12 0QG6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
20 June 2025 at 5pm
Date listed
23 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Business Studies and Economics
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPR/UPR + TLR 2b (£5,640)
2i/c Business Studies job summary
Do you want to work in an exceptional, forward-thinking and collaborative Business Studies department, with opportunities to receive outstanding training and professional development?
If so, we are looking to appoint an ambitious and innovative teacher to join our highly successful Business Studies team. This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop your teaching and leadership skills, whilst working within an inspirational team of subject specialists. The department offers GCSE Business Studies and GCSE Economics, as well as A Level Business Studies, A Level Economics and the Level 3 BTEC Diploma at KS5. The successful applicant will hold primary responsibility for a specific area of the curriculum which can be discussed at interview according to suitability and experience.
Why work at The Compton School, part of the Middlesex Learning Trust?
- Smaller than average class sizes
- A lower contact ratio than the norm.
- A commitment to staff wellbeing, including a 2-week autumn half term, work from home PPA, staff-run Wellbeing Team, staff socials, a staff choir, cakes in the staffroom every Friday, a cycle-to-work scheme, wellbeing afternoons and free access to an employee assistance package.
- You will be joining a highly successful school with a national profile of excellence in teaching and learning, teacher training and student outcomes.
- You will be working in an exceptional, fully staffed Business Studies department, that is an extremely popular option choice in the school.
- You will be joining a department that regularly wins local and national Business Studies competitions, such as Young Enterprise.
- Ambitious, respectful and hardworking students.
- Planning and evaluation time during the school day, with some work from home PPA time.
- Collaborative curriculum planning with opportunities for sharing of best practise across the Trust.
- A fully planned, knowledge-rich and engaging Business Studies curriculum at Key Stages 4 & 5 to adapt and develop to suit your classes.
- The opportunity to enthuse and develop trainee teachers from The Compton SCITT in developing their subject knowledge.
- Exceptional professional development: The Compton School works alongside a local Teaching School Hub to deliver key professional development programmes – this provides our staff access to National Professional Qualifications including Senior Leadership, Leading Teaching, Leading Literacy and Headship. The Outstanding Teacher Programme is also a fully funded CPD opportunity which is facilitated on site.
Who are we?
We are a massively oversubscribed mixed multi-ethnic school that has had five outstanding OFSTED inspections in succession, most recently in March 2024.
At The Compton we understand that our brilliant teachers make a difference to the life chances of our students every day by helping them to secure outstanding outcomes. We always strive to appoint the very best teachers and once in post we provide a workplace environment that ensures their needs are fully met now and in the future.
The Compton School is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are proud of our diverse school community, and we are committed to delivering our ethos of ‘Excellence for All’ in an inclusive and supportive working environment in which everyone is valued.
Are you the right person to join our team? If so, we would be delighted to hear from you.
The Compton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Compton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Compton School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1349 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Compton School website
The Compton school is part of Middlesex Learning Trust, a successful Multi Academy Trust. We are a hugely oversubscribed mixed multi-ethnic school that has had four consecutive outstanding OFSTED reports, the most recent being in January 2018. The Compton has a national profile for excellence in teaching and learning, in leadership, and for student outcomes. It is also a School-Centred Initial Teacher Training Centre and the Headteacher is an experienced National Leader of Education. Students at the Compton make exceptional progress - our results routinely putting the school within the top 5% of schools nationally for progress.
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