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Business Studies Teacher

Gunnersbury Catholic School, Brentford, TW8 9LB

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  22 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  29 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subjects: Business studies, Economics
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Outer London - M1-UPS3

What skills and experience we're looking for

Above all else we seek to appoint an enthusiastic teacher with a real passion for business studies who is committed to the success of their students and is highly motivated to develop the teaching and learning across the department. Potential, dynamism, determination and resolve are key attributes for our new teacher. In particular we are very keen to appoint an individual who wishes to be a leader of Business within a few years. Our excellent school and Business Studies Department will provide the experience, training and guidance to enable this ambition to be fulfilled.

What the school offers its staff

Year on year Gunnersbury Catholic School has developed our staff to become fantastic teachers and leaders. In doing so, from one year to the next, we have enabled unparalleled success for our students.

Our school is:

• a Catholic community where care for each other, student ambition, pupil motivation and behaviour are exemplary

• committed to providing quality support, guidance and coaching to develop our staff so that they may progress to the highest levels as teachers and leaders

• highest achieving for GCSE boys non-selective school in the country

• an environment that enables achievement of the highest order 90% 5 GCSEs at 9-4 including English and Maths in 2024, Progress 8 score of +1.0

• The setting that achieved the highest proportion of A*s at A-Level in the borough

• determined by Fischer Family Trust as being amongst the top 3% of schools Nationally

• determined ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted (2023)

• determined ‘Outstanding‘ in all areas by Diocese of Westminster (s48 inspection, 2019)

• a workplace where staff are a friendly, welcoming and helpful team

Further details about the role

Our teachers are integral to Gunnersbury’s success through their superb teaching and its enablement of outstanding achievement. Working under the direction of the Head of Business Studies the new teacher shall seek to further the learning experience and outcomes of our students. They should wish to establish a love of Business Studies across the key stages whilst enabling fantastic learning for each child.

Commitment to safeguarding

Gunnersbury Catholic School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Applying for the job

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Business Teacher Information Booklet.pdf - 2.54 MB (opens in new tab)

About Gunnersbury Catholic School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1204 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Gunnersbury Catholic School website
• Email address: kerry-anne.smith@gunnersbury.hounslow.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/gunnersbury-catholic-school

Gunnersbury is a Voluntary Aided School for Catholic boys. It takes six forms of entry at 11+ and is administered by a Board of Governors acting under the trusteeship of the Archdiocese of Westminster. The total number of pupils on roll is 1243, including a Sixth Form of 254 boys and 78 girls. We achieved outstanding in all categories of our last Ofsted Inspection in January 2023. The school regularly achieves excellent examination results. In 2024 90% of year 11 pupils gained at least five GCSEs at 9-4, including English and Maths. Our ‘Progress 8’ score for this cohort was +1.0

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