27 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    From 1st September 2026 or earlier by arrangement

  • Closing date

    27 April 2026 at 3pm

  • Date listed

    31 March 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Working pattern

Full time: 5 days per week

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Actual salary range: £32,916 - £47,472

Pay scale

Salary Scale: MPS1 to UPS 1

Additional allowances

SEN Allowance £2787

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we are looking for?

We want to hear what you can bring to our community. We are seeking practitioners who -

  • Are creative & innovative: can demonstrate an inspirational drive to take risks and implement new ideas
  • Can create a safe, stimulating and enjoyable environment for our wonderful young people to feel secure, be valued and actively develop their curiosity, engagement and love for learning?
  • Are reflective & resourceful: dedicated team players who are curious and eager to grow

The Principal and Governors wish to appoint candidates who will continue to drive our school forward. Are you ready?

What the school offers its staff

Cavendish High Academy is a very successful special school for young people aged 11-19 years old with severe learning difficulties. Due to a period of significant growth, we are looking for creative, reflective, resourceful and innovative practitioners to join us. We’d love to hear what you could bring to our team that would benefit our school community.

Why Cavendish?

We are a Leading Edge school, providing education to young people with special educational needs in a caring and professional environment. We are a school with a strong community culture and have been recognised for our work with parents and families through the Leading Parent Partnership award. We are forward thinking and outward facing. We have been awarded the Leading with a Moral Purpose and Climate for Learning strand of the SSAT - Exceptional Education Framework at transforming level which is the highest standard they award, recognising our practice as amongst the most effective nationally.

Do you love learning and enjoy developing your practice to ensure it is the very best it can be ? You will have the opportunity to benefit from bespoke training & CPD as well as networking & professional dialogue days with your colleagues and peers both within and outside of Cavendish, to ensure that you can continue to develop professionally.

We don’t just support your career; we actively encourage our staff to engage with research and development opportunities at local, regional, and national levels for the benefit of our amazing young people.

We demonstrate our care and commitment to staff through providing BUPA private health care and support for collaborative & flexible working for teachers through sector- leading, dedicated, non-contact time in addition to standard PPA time.


Flexible working opportunities

We offer support for collaborative & flexible working for teachers through sector- leading, dedicated, non-contact time in addition to standard PPA time. We are also flexible about working PPA and non-contact time from home, by arrangement.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Please complete the online application.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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Additional documents

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

About The Cavendish High Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 19
School size
107 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Email address
pht@chs.academy
Phone number
01928561706

Special Secondary School

Arranging a visit to The Cavendish High Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email pht@chs.academy.

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