History Teacher

Woodlands School, Basildon, Essex, SS16 5BA

49 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  30 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  11 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: History
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £33,075.00 - £50,471.00 Annually (FTE)

History Teacher job summary

Are you seeking a new professional challenge in an innovative, well supported environment? Are you a lifelong learner looking to model high aspirations and excellence to the community you serve? Are you relentless in your mission to improve and keen to support and challenge students and staff alike to become the best they can be? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join us in our demanding mission to offer a first-class provision for our school community by raising Aspirations, instilling Resilience, creating Opportunities and securing both academic and personal Excellence. We are seeking a hardworking, committed practitioner to join us in our journey as together, we can change lives!

For September 2025, we require an inspirational and dedicated expert practitioner to teach History as they look to progress further in their journey to excellence. The post is suitable for either an experienced practitioner, looking for the opportunity to develop further professionally, or an Early Career Teacher who will receive a bespoke support package, designed in collaboration with the expert colleagues already existing within the team. Part time would also be considered.

Our classrooms are happy learning environments, and we facilitate a growth mind set in our pupils, modelled by our ambitious, progressive staff body who benefit from an evidence-informed CPD package which is at the pinnacle of pedagogical development.

We encourage potential colleagues to visit our state of the art learning community, so you can see first-hand the vibrant and inclusive learning environment that we are proud to offer. We are confident that you will be impressed with our relentless commitment to providing our local community with opportunities for success both at Woodlands and in the wider world.

The school is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in this commitment.

About the Trust

We are a successful Multi Academy Trust based in the South East of Essex and currently manage four local secondary schools. Each school within our Trust is a place where we believe in the power of education to transform lives.

Our philosophy is centred around the belief that schools can achieve better educational outcomes for students by working together as a collective entity. The Compass Trust is founded on the principles of collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity, with the aim of providing a supportive and nurturing environment that enables schools to flourish and students to succeed.

Commitment to safeguarding

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in this commitment.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Woodlands School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1494 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Woodlands School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodlands-school

Aspiration, Resilience, Opportunity, Excellence, is our ethos. These four pillars underpin all we do and drive us forward as one inclusive learning community.

We have the privilege to be able to teach and learn, as an 11-16 Academy, in a £26 million building. Woodlands School is proud to serve the people of Basildon and we are constantly striving to be better. We are focused on ensuring academic excellence for all our youngsters, allowing them the opportunity to thrive at further and higher education.

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