Head of Computing
Charters School, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 9QY13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
15 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
30 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- ICT & Computing
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main Scale or UPS Post, includes London Fringe + TLR 3 £7,899 per annum. We offer a ‘Welcome incentive bonus’ for successful direct applications - £4000 for full-time role*
Head of Computing job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious and dedicated teacher of Computing to join and lead our highly successful Computing Department from September 2025.
The successful candidate will be an outstanding teacher, with a strong commitment to Computing both in and out of the classroom. You will have a love of teaching and Computing and a willingness to trial new ideas and be passionate about your subject. The ability to teach Computing from KS3 – KS5 is a requirement.
Charters School is a very heavily over-subscribed 11-18 Comprehensive Academy School with over 1700 students on roll (including over 390 in the Sixth Form) located in Sunningdale.
Computing is a highly popular and respected subject and this is an exciting opportunity for an inspiring candidate to join us and continue to develop.
Please look at the Computing Department information document along with this advert and the Charters School information attached and our website www.chartersschool.org.uk
APPLICANT INFORMATION:
Deadline for applications: 9 am on Thursday, 15 May 2025
Applicants are requested to complete the Application Form and are asked to include a statement, outlining how your skills and experience have prepared you for the role and how you would contribute to Charters School’s future success.
We welcome immediate applications for this post and all applications will be considered immediately upon receipt, we will interview and appoint accordingly and we reserve the right to make an appointment before the deadline.
’* Welcome incentive bonus of £4,000 for direct applications ’, subject to offer, £2,000 would be paid on completion of a satisfactory 6-month probationary period, £2,000 paid after 12 months, in September 2026
Welcome incentive bonus is not payable to applications via an agency or other introduction company.
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 Charters School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1713 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Charters School website
Charters School is a very heavily over-subscribed 11-18 Comprehensive Academy School with 1720 students on roll (including 400+ in the Sixth Form) located in Sunningdale. It has been graded an “outstanding” school on two successive occasions and is a dynamic, high-achieving secondary school where students are polite, motivated to succeed and enjoy their education.
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