Maths Teacher

Atherton High School, Atherton, Greater Manchester, M46 0AY

23 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  28 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  18 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 31650 - 49084 Plus Recruitment Bonus £3,000

Maths Teacher job summary

The Job:

Atherton High School seek to appoint a Teacher of Mathematics to deliver a high-quality maths curriculum at key stage 3 and key stage 4 on a full time and permanent contract from September 2025. The successful candidate will receive a recruitment bonus of £3,000 upon completion of six months' service.

Atherton High is a school on the move and the successful candidate will join the school at a very exciting time:  

• Our P8 score 2024 was 0
• We have a new Headteacher who is driving school standards even further, in terms of behaviour and achievement
• We are hugely oversubscribed
• Staff benefit from a first class CPD offer with generous time allocated to it, as an investment in our colleagues

 

This opportunity is perfect for someone who is looking for progression within the profession, as you will have significant CPD opportunities to develop leadership, professional learning, and high-quality curriculum development. Working within a smaller school setting will offer the successful candidate routes for progression, so will suit an aspiring leader, who wants to really make a difference within the educational setting of disadvantaged pupils.

 

We recommended coming to visit our school and meet the Mathematics Team, and the Senior Leadership Team to further discuss the role and opportunity, and to see our school in action. Please contact the School Business Manager to arrange – lcarruthers@atherton-ept.com.

What does this job do?

• To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.
• To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher/form tutor.
• To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
• To contribute to raising standards of student attainment.
• To share and support the Academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.

What are the job requirements?

• QTS
• Excellent professional knowledge and understanding of national and examination curricular requirements of the subject.
• Excellent knowledge of mathematics with the ability to plan lessons with clear objectives to ensure progression for all students.
• A thorough understanding of and commitment to safeguarding children and young people
• Evidence of good or outstanding teaching and learning in schools with large cohorts of pupil premium students

About Atherton High School:

‘Our curriculum ambition at Atherton High School is to make learning irresistible for all'. We have designed a challenging and ambitious curriculum to provide the best learning opportunities for all our students to aspire and achieve.

 

Our core values that drive our curriculum are:

• Aspiration for all to improve life chances for every student.
• Excellence in learning through an ambitious knowledge and vocabulary rich curriculum for all.
• Character and personal development to equip all of our students to succeed in life.

 

At Atherton High School what is taught is coherently planned and sequenced to equip students to succeed in life. Our curriculum supports students from all backgrounds, including those who are disadvantaged, so students can access a high-quality, knowledge-rich curriculum. Our school community believes strongly in providing disadvantaged pupils with a curriculum that enables them to reach the academic standards of their non-disadvantaged peers. Our goal is to bring our young people into the big conversations of subject disciplines, to bring depth to our curriculum, so they can understand the world around them.

About the Education Partnership Trust (EPT):

EPT was established in 2012 as a multi-academy trust and is an approved academy sponsor. Our vision is to create outstanding schools which transform learning, lives and communities. We benefit from our diverse and unique range of schools which include secondary mainstream, alternative provision and special and have a proven track record of sustained improvement. Our schools are united by a drive to improve opportunities and outcomes for children and young people within a collaborative learning culture.

Our staff are our most valued asset so we continually invest in our colleagues and we believe that all teaching and support staff posts within our schools are key in terms of supporting pupil achievement and improving their life chances. As such we are keen to recruit dedicated and ambitious professionals who will add value to our schools and trust by helping our young people to succeed. 

“If you’re good at what you do, you can work anywhere. If you’re the best at what you do, we want you to work for Education Partnership Trust.”

 

Our extensive range of rewards and benefits include:

• Healthcare cash back plan provided free by the trust includes optical, dental, physio, diagnostics, health assessment, NHS prescription charges, hospital cover, discounted gym memberships plus lots more.
• Employee Assistance Programme including, counselling, CBT, and wellbeing initiatives.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Access to government pension schemes.
• Free parking.
• Electric Car Scheme (Salary Sacrifice).
• Training, mentoring and progression opportunities including our Emerging Leaders programmes.
• Trust wide intranet to share knowledge and resources. 

 

Incomplete application forms will not be shortlisted, if you need to discuss a reason for being unable to complete a section, please contact the recruitment team HR@ept-uk.com

Please be advised, as part of due diligence checks, online searches will be carried out on shortlisted candidates.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are actively committed to safeguarding all our pupils and staff.

Applying for the job

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About Atherton High School

• School type: Free School, Christian, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 525 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Atherton High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/atherton-high-school

AHS is an amazing school, with the most wonderful staff. The school has grown and develop through understanding that our staff are our most valued asset so we continually invest in our colleagues and we believe that all teaching and support staff posts within our schools are key in terms of supporting pupil achievement and improving their life chances.

As such we are keen to recruit dedicated and ambitious professionals who will add value to our schools and trust by helping our young people to succeed.

Situated with great commuter links, AHS, serves all pupils from our local community.

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