Leader of Initial Teacher Training - Highdown School
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre, Reading, Berkshire, RG4 8LRThis job expired on 18 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
18 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £57,831 - £62,202 Per year
What skills and experience we're looking for
Full time/Part time
Required for September 2025
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 28 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is well known for its exceptional initial teacher training provision: with a dedicated Teaching and Learning Hub for trainee teachers, expert subject mentors and a high track record of recruiting and retaining excellent trainee teachers.
We work with a large variety of training providers and this year we are a pilot school for the new teacher degree apprenticeship. This new leadership position builds on these strong foundations to establish the GLF Teaching Hub in Oxfordshire and Reading and furthering our vision to be the ‘school of choice’ for teachers in Reading and beyond.
The Initial Teacher Training Lead will have a timetabled teaching commitment of 30 periods per fortnight (out of 50), complying with the Teachers’ Standards and modelling best practice for others.
What the school offers its staff
Why Highdown School?
- We are a Good School with many outstanding features which continues to rapidly improve
- We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
- Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities We are on a journey to becoming a ‘regional centre of excellence’. Why not join us?
Closing Date: Sunday 18th May 2025
To apply, please go to the following link: https://www.eteach.com/careers/highdown-reading/
Email: office@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are also trained in safer recruitment, and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and a ‘Prohibition from Teaching’ check. As part of our safeguarding procedures, candidates will also be subject to an online record search.
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.
About Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1562 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre website
- Email address
- office@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown was awarded academy status in 2010 and was judged to be a good school by Ofsted in April 2015.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a thriving school where all students are challenged to reach excellence every day.
Our most important resource is our staff. Therefore, we aim to create the conditions and culture within the academy that make Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre a rewarding place to work. We are committed to investing in staff professional learning and leadership development, taking action to rationalise workload, promote mental and physical health and wellbeing, and encourage collaboration and peer support.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, teaching and support staff (including temporary and supply staff), governors and volunteers to share this commitment.
Arranging a visit to Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@highdown.reading.sch.uk.
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