KS3/4 Teacher

Furze Down School, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, MK18 3BL

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  7 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  24 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE)

KS3/4 Teacher job summary

We are looking for a KS3/4 Class Teacher

Main/Upper Pay Range + SEN point (depending on experience)

Starting as soon as possible

Permanent Full Time (Flexible working will be considered)

We are looking to appoint a creative teacher to join our highly successful school and become a key member of our team. We are committed to ensuring that our curriculum meets all of our students’ needs, now and into the future. We prepare them for independent or semi-independent living, further education and work through teaching a wide curriculum including core subjects, life-skills and creative arts.

Due to the nature of the pupils’ Special Educational Needs, this role would suit a primary practitioner with an interest in working with older pupils.

Furze Down School provides a supportive and aspirational environment for children with complex Special Educational Needs (4-19). The school was recognised as being ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2006, 2009, 2014, 2018 and 2024 and we are looking for an inspirational teacher, able to build on this achievement.

The successful candidate will:

Be competent in all elements of the relevant Teachers’ Standards; an outstanding practitioner

Show evidence that their contribution to their current place of work has impacted significantly on pupil outcomes across a range of subjects and abilities

Have a strong working knowledge of the primary curriculum and how it can be modified to meet the needs of SEN pupils within the Communication and Interaction Strand

Show evidence of effective team-building and collaboration resulting in genuine impact on standards

Be able to build positive relationships with parents and carers so that they can support their children’s progress

In return we can offer you

A warm, welcoming, positive working environment, which recognises staff Health and Wellbeing as being pivotal to supporting our pupils.

An extensive in house CPD menu, designed to ensure that you continue to be proficient and competent in your profession while also furnishing you with essential skills that could lead to career progression

Furze Down School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check before they are appointed.

For further information about our school visit www.furzedown.bucks.sch.uk

Informal visits to the school are welcome.

Arrangements can be made through the school office. Tel 01296 711380

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Furze Down School

• School type: Special school, ages 4 to 19
• School size: 219 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Furze Down School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/furze-down-school

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