Humanities Teacher
Wildern School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 4EJ12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January/April 2025
Closing date
13 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 October 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Geography, History
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,000.00 - £46,525.00 Annually (Actual)
Humanities Teacher job summary
Humanities Teacher
January 2025
Wildern Secondary School is a large secondary school in Hedge End, Southampton. We are looking for passionate, enthusiastic, and creative Humanities Teacher to join our Humanities department working across History (possible specialism), Geography, RE and Education for Life. We are part of the RAISE Education Trust which comprises Wildern School, Deer Park Secondary School and Boorley Park Primary School.
The successful candidate would be given excellent career development opportunities. For interested candidates who would like to work in a great school with a strong positive and supportive culture and work with a fantastic curriculum team with excellent GCSE results we would love to hear from you. This role is also suitable for Early Career Teachers. More information about our bespoke school led ECT programme can be found at https://wildernacademytrust.org/cpd/professional-learning/early-career-teacher/
Wildern School is recognised as a ‘Good’ school across all four areas in our recent Ofsted 2024 inspection. Please see the following quotes from our report.
- "Pupils are prepared well for life beyond school."
- "They achieve well across a range of academic and vocational subjects."
- "The school sets high expectations for pupils’ academic learning. This is mirrored by an emphasis on developing character and resilience."
- "The school provides a broad range of experiences to enhance pupils’ learning."
- "Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) benefit strongly from the opportunities the school provides."
Benefits of working across our Humanities Department:
- Well-resourced schemes of learning which are adapted and updated regularly to ensure subject knowledge is relevant and engaging for us and our students which are shared centrally with the team
- All humanities subjects taught in discrete lessons of History, Geography and RE
- Opportunities to develop CPD through curriculum meetings and workshops with the team as well as whole school twilights.
- Large and supportive team of 7 experienced History teachers, 6 experienced Geography teachers, and 3 superb RE teachers.
- Our humanities team all share a passion for their subject and inspire and create a sense of awe and wonder within our students.
- Great access to ICT facilities such as Digimap and Google Classroom.
- Plenty of opportunity to teach KS4, with all students studying either History or Geography at GCSE. There is also between 1 and 2 RE GCSE classes in each year of KS4 as well.
- Excellent record of GCSE results across Humanities.
- Diverse range of topics taught at KS3 and KS4 that meets the AQA specification criteria for GCSE and develops students’ KS3 knowledge and understanding to prepare them for KS4 curriculums whilst simultaneously creating learning that inspires students.
- Opportunities to develop cultural capital through residential and international trips and further enrichment through clubs.
Benefits of working for our trust include:
- Helping to shape the futures of children in our community
- Welcoming, Supportive, Friendly and sociable colleagues
- An Amazing Competitive salary
- Excellent Continuing Professional Development with high quality CPD program
- Many opportunities for career progression
- A tax efficient Cycle-to-Work scheme through salary sacrifice
- An amazing rate for staff membership at our modern on-site Leisure Centre
- Free large on-site car park
- Good transport links
- Workplace Pension Scheme
- Enrolment in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
If you currently work in a school, please ensure one of your references is from your current Headteacher. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may invite candidates to interview before the closing date. Closing Date: Midday Wednesday 13th November 2024.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we receive applications that meet the criteria. Once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
RAISE Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Commitment to safeguarding
Wildern Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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 Wildern School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1869 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Wildern School website (opens in new tab)
Wildern School is a popular, oversubscribed secondary school situated in the Southampton suburbs. We are a school with significant strength in the CPD of staff, developing our teachers for the next stage of their careers. All students and staff alike can take advantage of excellent facilities which include a lecture theatre, digital media suites, a recording studio, both PC and Mac Suites, community sports centre and access to a professional theatre.
We are part of the Wildern Academy Trust which comprises of Wildern School, Deer Park Secondary School and Boorley Park Primary School.
This is an exciting time for the trust and all colleagues joining us.
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