Philosophy Teacher
Avanti House School, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 2EQ7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
26 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Philosophy
Working pattern
- Full time: Please see JD for further information.
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until 31st August 2026
Pay scale
- UNQ1 – MPS3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Please Note: This is a fixed-term contract until 31st August 2026.
About us and the role
Are you passionate about inspiring young minds to explore life’s biggest questions and develop critical thinking skills rooted in respect, inquiry, and compassion?
We are on the lookout for a dedicated Philosophy Teacher to join our team and deliver an enriching curriculum that promotes reflection, reasoning, and meaningful dialogue.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to nurture intellectual curiosity and moral development, helping pupils navigate ethical dilemmas and examine diverse worldviews through the lens of The Avanti Way. You’ll be instrumental in creating a safe, inclusive classroom where deep thinking, respectful debate, and character growth thrive.
This role gives you a chance to shape young people into thoughtful, grounded individuals who can contribute positively to their communities and the wider world.
If you’re an enthusiastic educator with a strong subject knowledge, a commitment to high standards, and a desire to make a genuine difference, we’d love to hear from you.
What will you do?
- Deliver the curriculum, prepare teaching materials, and ensure high standards of literacy and student progress.
- Establish a safe and stimulating environment, manage classroom behavior, and promote student well-being.
- Use assessment data to monitor student progress, set targets, and plan lessons.
- Collaborate with colleagues, participate in professional development, and communicate effectively with parents and external bodies.
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of students, ensuring compliance with school policies and protocols.
What are we looking for?
- QTS Qualified
- Qualified to bachelor’s degree level in relevant or allied subject
- Able to work independently, collaboratively and as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills with children, parents and carers
- Ability to create and maintain professional working relationships
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
Avanti House Secondary School is a thriving school in Stanmore, Harrow. “In addition to achieving well academically, pupils are very well supported to develop more widely. The culture and ethos of the school ensure that pupils are taught to be responsible and caring citizens” - (OFSTED, 2023).
Avanti House is a co-educational, Hindu-faith school that welcomes pupils and staff of all backgrounds. Our fantastic site, which is a few minutes’ walk from Canons Park station, has incredible spaces including sports facilities, theatre, specialist classrooms, dining spaces and a beautiful worship room
Avanti House is a co-educational, Hindu-faith school that welcomes pupils and staff of all backgrounds. Our fantastic site, which is a few minutes’ walk from Canons Park station, has incredible spaces including sports facilities, theatre, specialist classrooms, dining spaces and a beautiful worship room.
“We’re trying to appeal to students in a way, in which we don’t just enrich them in terms of academic success and aiming for the best universities, but its also about developing them as a human being, ensuring the support is in place that they can grow into the people that they want to be.” - Ricardo
Our staff are inspired and passionate about their roles, the vision of the school, and providing the most fulfilling learning experience for pupils. Learning is a quest to discover each student’s unique gifts and potential, and to lay the foundation for their lifelong journey of learning.
Principal Quote:
“The reality behind the school is the people in it. The highlight of our school, is that our staff give students the opportunities to become the best versions of themselves and help make the world a better place.” - Simon Arnell, Principal
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further details about the role
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti House School
- School type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1189 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti House School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti House Secondary School is an inclusive Hindu faith school based in Harrow, open to students of all faiths.
What makes Avanti Secondary School distinctive is its values-based approach to education. This encourages students to value self, others and the environment and empowers them to be effective learners as well as good citizens. The school offers a traditional and extensive curriculum, but also offers a focused study of Ethics, Philosophy, Sanskrit, Meditation and Yoga.
In 2022 our Year 11 students gained excellent GCSE examination results with 89% of students gaining at least a Grade 4 in both their Mathematics and English qualifications. Students gained excellent results in a wide range of subjects across the curriculum and many have progressed into our Sixth Form. Our Sixth Form has grown from an initial 36 students in 2018 to over 320 this year. This highlights the quality of the teaching and learning across the school and the vast majority of the pupils studying in our Sixth Form progress onto their first choice universities and apprenticeship schemes.
A wide range of extra-curricular opportunities enable the students to develop their own characters and become outstanding citizens. Our most recent Ofsted highlights that the behaviour and attitudes shown by pupils and adults are exemplary and the provision for pupils, spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is exceptional.
Avanti House Secondary School is based in a large site in Wemborough Road, Stanmore. The multi-million pound complex boasts state of the art science labs, computing rooms, design and technology workshops and classrooms that will enable students to make outstanding progress through exceptional teaching and learning. The fantastic sports and arts facilities also enable the students to excel and further develop their passions in these areas through extra-curricular activities and our successful sports teams.
Arranging a visit to Avanti House School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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