History Teacher
Alperton Community School, Wembley, Middlesex, HA0 4JE18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
21 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- History
Working pattern
- Full time: Teachers Terms and Conditions
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Inner London Pay Scales MPS (£36,745 - £47,666) / UPS (£52,526 - £56,959)
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
History is a very popular subject throughout the school with a large number of students progressingto our highly successful GCSE course. We currently have A Level History and A Level Politicsgroups. Many of our students leave us to study at Russell Group universities. The successfulcandidate would join a well-qualified, friendly and committed team.
The Person
The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom teacher who can inspire and excite students about their learning. They will have an innovative approach to developing a History curriculum that is inclusive to all students and makes good use of ICT.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach History across the full age and ability range up to and including A Level. The ability to work within a team is essential and the successful candidate will be expected to have good ICT skills. A sound knowledge and understanding of best practice in the accurate assessment of student work is essential.
What the school offers its staff
The Benefits
Continuing Professional Development
Employee Assistance Programme
Cashback Health Benefits
Cycle to Work Scheme
Pension Scheme
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Alperton Community School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1948 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Alperton Community School website
- Email address
- hr@alperton.brent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 020 8902 2038
We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 350 students in our sixth form. Due to our increased popularity as a school, we expanded our roll in 2018. Alperton Community School is an inclusive school with a student intake that reflects a wonderfully diverse and vibrant local community. Our students are very well behaved, work hard and are ambitious to succeed. Our most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2021 graded our school as Good "Pupils like coming to school and they enjoy their lessons"; "Pupils can focus because they feel safe"; "Leaders’ expectations of all pupils are high"; "Pupils behave well in school. They focus on their learning in lessons. Pupils follow teachers’ instructions and listen to one another".
Student progress at GCSE and A Level has been above national averages for many years with disadvantaged students performing well above national averages. Our progress 8 score has been consistently “above average”. We also see high numbers of our students’ progress to Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities. Student attendance and the percentage of students who remain in education, employment or training are also well above national averages.
Recent awards include the 2022 Pearson “Making a Difference” Award; the school was recently shortlisted for the TES School of the Year and won the TES Maths Team of the Year. We are also one of only four schools in the country to hold the Platinum Professional Development Mark.
This is an exceptional opportunity. It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportive and committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth. The school offers excellent support for ECTs in their induction year.
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