8 days remaining to apply

  • 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.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
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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
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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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