12 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    26 August 2025

  • Closing date

    1 July 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    19 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Full time: 32.5 hours per week

Contract type

Fixed term - fixed term

Pay scale

£21,731 to £33,092 per annum (UQ1 to UQ6)

What skills and experience we're looking for

What you will get

  • The opportunity to work in a school which is part of one of the highest performing multi-academy trusts in the country with a passion for improving the life chances of young people at the core of its work.
  • Paid employment as an apprentice mathematics teacher in an established school mathematics department.
  • Fully-funded enrolment on the Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship programme provided by the National Institute of Teaching, culminating in the award of qualified teacher status.
  • High quality professional mentoring and in-school CPD.
  • Regular feedback on your progress, complemented by supportive action planning.
  • Upon completing the Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship Programme, you’ll be a qualified teacher with a job in the school where you trained with access to the National Institute of Teaching’s flagship leadership programmes.

Who we’re looking for

We are seeking graduates with proven academic credentials who are keen to become teachers in Star schools. Applicants must:

  • be values-driven and determined to improve the life chances of children and young people.
  • have the motivation and commitment to become a Star teacher.
  • have the potential and ambition to secure qualified teacher status.
  • be reflective learners with a growth mindset and appetite to receive and act upon feedback.

What the school offers its staff

Oulder Hill Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Rochdale, which joined Star Academies in March 2022. We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all our pupils, as evidenced by our most recent Ofsted inspection in January 2025, when we were graded ‘Good’ in all four areas of the inspection framework.

Like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism – providing a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

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

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About Oulder Hill Leadership Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1184 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01706 645522

School location

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