Full Time Teacher of Mathematics
Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
5 November 2025 at 10:59pm
Date listed
17 October 2025
Job details
Job role
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Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE)
Full Time Teacher of Mathematics job summary
You will be joining a thriving mathematics faculty which offers GCSE Mathematics, Statistics and Further Mathematics and A Level Mathematics and Further Mathematics. We value collaboration to ensure there is a vibrant learning and teaching experience for all with opportunities to get involved with visiting speakers, trips, external lectures, presentations and EPQ.
Mathematics and Further Mathematics courses at A Level and GCSE are very popular and oversubscribed. We currently have 4 teaching groups in Year 12 and Year 13. Results are testament to our diligent and hard-working students and staff. In 2024, for A Level Mathematics, 75% achieved grades A*-B and A Level Further Mathematics achieved 56% A*/A.
A good number of students go on to study mathematics-related courses at university. In recent years the faculty has prepared students for courses at Oxford and Cambridge, Warwick, Nottingham, Bath and other Russel Group Universities.
Super curricular activities include opportunities to attend a mathematics residential course at Cambridge University, FMSP online courses, Maths in Action lectures in London, TED talks, UKMT competitions and the opportunity for students to improve leadership skills and become Maths Captains.
Applications from ECTs would be welcomed.
The successful candidate should:
- Be an inspirational classroom practitioner with an irresistible enthusiasm for their subject. As a reflective practitioner you will be constantly looking to develop your practice through collaboration, experimentation, and hard work.
- Be a team player working closely with the Director of Faculty to develop the learning experiences for all our students.
- Be creative and innovative constantly looking for new ways to challenge our high ability students across all Key Stages.
- Contribute to secure the highest standards of pupil achievement, monitoring, tracking, supporting, and evaluating pupil achievement. Setting targets for improvement and implementing effective strategies for underperforming students.
We can offer you:
- Highly motivated, curious and industrious students.
- A strong highly qualified staff team and an ethos of tolerance and respect with a family community spirit
- A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing.
- An environment which promotes innovation.
Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls’ grammar school rated
‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it moves forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Southend High School for Girls
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1253 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Southend High School for Girls website
Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.
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