Head of Chemistry
The Duston School, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN5 6XA8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
29 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Chemistry
Working pattern
- Full time: Teaching Hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS (£31,650—£49,084)
Additional allowances
Head of Chemistry TLR2b £5,644
What skills and experience we're looking for
Head of Chemistry TLR2b £5,644 MPS/UPS (£31,650—£49,084) The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Start Date: Easter 2025 or September 2025 Closing Date: midday, Friday 29th November 2024
The Duston School is looking to appoint a Head of Chemistry. This is an exciting time to join our successful
Science faculty teaching all key stages including post 16. We aim to ensure that our pupils become responsible,
competent, confident and build skills relevant to today’s society.
We welcome applications from qualified teachers, who can demonstrate the highest standards of delivery in
order to raise attainment and are committed to motivating young people. We welcome applications from
ECT’s as well as experienced applicants..
What the school offers its staff
Do you want to work in a hugely successful and dramatically transformed school? Do you want to work in a school that operates on common sense and places people at the centre of all that is does? In joining the Duston School you will be joining a school that is: • Built upon strong values and principles • Places people at the heart of all that it does • Heavily over-subscribed • Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded • A Behaviour Hub Lead School • The 27th most improved school nationally, with GCSE outcomes in 2019 placing the school in the top 20% of all schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools • GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2022 were the best in the school’s history • A school of Character • An Investors in People Gold School • An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School • A Global Equality Collective School • The home of ResearchED Northampton • A PKC Curriculum Hub • An Ofsted ‘Good’ school
Applying:
Please complete an application form (we do not accept a CV alone) along with a letter of application to the Principal. Please
email the application form and letter to: jobs@thedustonschool.org
If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this
occasion.
The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to
share this commitment. We follow safer recruitment practice and all appointments are subject to satisfactory DBS checks. In
addition references will be requested for short listed applicants prior to interview and will form part of the interview process.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for
the vacancy/ies.
Online searches will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Duston School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1982 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Duston School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@thedustonschool.org
- Phone number
- 01604460004
Arranging a visit to The Duston School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jobs@thedustonschool.org.
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