GET INTO TEACHING AT QUEEN ELIZABETH’S: trainee teachers required for September 2025
Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5 4DQ27 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
17 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Art & Design, Biology, Business Studies and Economics, Chemistry, Design Technology, English, Geography, History, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Music, Physical Education (PE), Physics
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Unsalaried School Direct programme. Some subjects typically attract government bursaries or scholarships.
GET INTO TEACHING AT QUEEN ELIZABETH’S: trainee teachers required for September 2025 job summary
One of the country’s leading academic schools, Queen Elizabeth’s Barnet blends a distinctive heritage and proud traditions with an innovative, forward-looking approach to providing a state education like no other to 1300 boys aged 11-18. Our ‘outstanding’ status was emphatically validated by Ofsted in May 2022 and we are also The Sunday Times State Secondary School of the Year for 2022.
More information about our school is available at www.qebarnet.co.uk.
We are looking to support talented and ambitious graduates to join our staff team whilst working towards Qualified Teacher Status on one of the employment-based routes into teaching.
Recruitment is now open for September 2025 entry. Applicants with a successful background in any of the subject disciplines relevant to the School’s curriculum will be considered.
Government funding is typically available in some subject areas for some candidates (click here for more information). Information about funding for the 2025-2026 academic year is available here.
For the 2025 to 2026 academic year, the Government will offer bursaries of:
- £29,000 in chemistry, mathematics and physics
- £26,000 in biology, design and technology, geography and modern languages (French and German)
- £10,000 in art and design, music and RE
- £5,000 in English
Applicants may be eligible for a bursary if they have 1st, 2:1, 2:2, PhD or master’s.
The following scholarships are available:
- £31,000 in chemistry, mathematics and physics
- £28,000 in French and German
The School has a long-established and successful approach to teacher training with a high percentage of former trainees securing permanent roles in the school post qualification. With access to our outstanding package of high-quality continuous professional development and support, many have then progressed quickly to leadership roles.
Applications will be considered as they are received . Prospective applicants are welcome to address any questions they may have to recruitment@qebarnet.co.uk.
We are an equal opportunities employer. Queen Elizabeth’s is a dynamic school supported by a diverse and enthusiastic community of staff, pupils, parents and alumni. It is important that our staff reflect the diversity of our community, and we therefore welcome and encourage applications from people of all genders and sexual orientation, those from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds, and from those with disabilities.
Queen Elizabeth’s is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service .
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1305 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
School location
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