Science Key Stage Lead

Hounsdown School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 9FT

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Easter or September 2026

• Closing date

  30 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  16 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Science
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £51,047.00 Annually (Actual) Part Time or Full Time / TLR2b £5,875 per annum

Science Key Stage Lead job summary

We are seeking to recruit a suitably qualified dynamic, enthusiastic and hardworking Science teacher with key stage responsibility to join our committed and highly successful team. Experience and ability to teach Science at both KS3 and KS4 is essential. As a Specialist Science College we have a suite of ten refurbished laboratories with central a preparation area and excellent technician support.

Hounsdown is a popular, over-subscribed Hampshire school. Our school has a welcoming ethos with students being courteous and respectful.

Hounsdown School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant pre-employment checks.

As a school we welcome and encourage all applicants. We are unable to accept referrals via recruitment agents and therefore unable to contract on their terms and conditions. All candidates will be considered by the school as applying as a direct applicant and not via an agency referral.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Hounsdown School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, online searches along with other relevant pre-employment checks.

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 Hounsdown School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1281 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hounsdown School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hounsdown-school-southampton

Hounsdown is an 11-16 Science College which converted to a Single Academy Trust in August 2011. We are a popular, over-subscribed, Outstanding (Ofsted 2017), Hampshire school and a strategic partner for the ETC Teaching School Alliance. Our school has a welcoming ethos with students being courteous and respectful. We are committed to supporting all staff in their career aspirations and growing new leaders. The school motto is ‘Be the best that you can be’.

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