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  • Job start date

    1 January 2022

  • Closing date

    1 December 2021 at 8am

  • Date listed

    15 November 2021

Job details

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Working pattern

Contract type

Fixed term - Fixed term until 31/08/2022

Full-time equivalent salary

Unqualified Teacher Pay Scale UN03, £22,394 per annum

Additional allowances

Wycombe High School has been an early adopter of the Early Career Framework. We offer a first class remuneration package, plus excellent teaching and leadership development. We are seeking exceptional candidates and an additional payment is available for candidates of this calibre.  We also offer extremely generous employer pension contributions.

Graduate Assistant Programme - Unqualified Teacher of Music job summary

We are seeking to appoint recent graduates to join the highly motivated staff at our outstanding Grammar School. 
 
The successful candidate will receive guidance and support to teach their subject specialism. 
 
The role will also include 1:2:1 and small group interventions, plus some work of an administrative nature. 
  
Candidates will be resilient, with strong communication and inter-personal skills and enjoy working in a lively environment.  This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience within a friendly, vibrant, forward-thinking School. 

Staff Wellbeing   
Our staff are very important to us and Wycombe High School ensures employee wellbeing is high on our agenda.  
  
We have two staff mental health first aiders to provide support and guidance when needed and we are proud to work in partnership with Mind, having received the Wellbeing Index Gold Award for 2020-2021. 
 

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.

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About Wycombe High School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
1321 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Email address
hr@whs.bucks.sch.uk

Wycombe High School is a girls’ selective state academy school with 1304 students on roll, of whom around 400 are in the Sixth Form. Each year 192 girls are admitted into Year 7. All students are assigned to a vertical tutor group consisting of about 21 students; usually three students from each year. group There are six houses with 10 tutor groups in each house. Our school is part of the Wycombe High School Academies Trust. The school has educated girls of High Wycombe for over a hundred years and is very highly regarded in the local and wider community. There is a strong and shared sense of community and collective pride, built on core values. Parental support is strong. We have excellent links with other local schools, colleges and universities. We have a knowledgeable and supportive Governing Body fully involved with all aspects of school life, and an enthusiastic and active Parents and Friends Association. Our staff are professional, forward-looking and committed to extending the horizons of our students, encouraging them to aim high, to take on leadership roles and to become independent learners. We have an ambitious development plan, with a focus on improving the quality of teaching and learning, both within and beyond the classroom. We are a National Support School, a Teaching School and one of 35 Mathematics Hubs nationally. We are delighted to have been recently designated as a National Mathematics and Physics SCITT in 2017 and have strong community partnerships. We have invested substantially in IT systems and training. We also have an outstanding reputation for the performing and visual arts. Numerous educational visits take place each year and for every age group, at home and abroad. Our school motto summarises our ethos and sense of community. All those who study, work at, or send their children to our school are part of this community and are role models for our ethos. Fortiter, Fideliter, Feliciter (Courageously, Faithfully, Joyfully) Courageously: Each student is encouraged to embrace our core values of honesty, respect and hard work. She is encouraged to speak out against injustice, supported to take risks, and is not afraid of failure. She learns new subjects and skills. She pushes herself to her personal limits and beyond. She is encouraged to listen to the opinions of others, as well as to voice her own. She accepts responsibility for herself and other students. She leads the school in partnership with staff and the governing body. She is independent and innovative in thought and action. Faithfully: Every student is expected to uphold our school rules and traditions. She acts with integrity and is truthful and honest in all she does. She keeps promises and is reliable. She works hard to achieve her full potential. Above all she is a good friend, a good neighbour and a good citizen. She contributes positively to school life and society. Joyfully: All our students contribute to making our school the happy and joyful place it is. Each student demonstrates mutual respect and empathy for all and is proud of her own achievements and those of others. She shows commitment to a fair and peaceful community and embraces diversity. Our students are happy and positive in approach, and support others to be the same.

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