8 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    5 January 2026

  • Closing date

    7 November 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    9 October 2025

Job details

Job role

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Biology

Working pattern

Full time: 08:00-17:15 Monday to Friday

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

In the range £39,447 to £62,500

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key responsibilities

● To ensure that learners in the classroom make outstanding academic progress

● To provide effective pastoral support to a tutor group of ambitious and aspirational

students

● To contribute fully to the extended curricular offer at LAE Tottenham

Specific tasks to achieve the above

● To teach good and outstanding lessons in Biology at A-Level

● To have high quality and in-depth subject knowledge

● To plan and adapt teaching effectively to meet the needs of all students, especially those

who require additional support

● To ensure the provision of resources which allow students to become independent learners

● To provide formative and summative assessment for all students in a timely and effective

manner

● To build a positive academically-focused rapport with all learners

● To support students academically outside lessons as appropriate

● To have an effective understanding of the examination arrangements in the specialist

subject area

● To create a challenging but caring and nurturing learning environment

● To produce high-quality resources and maintain displays which promote academic

achievement

● To actively reflect on teaching practice and welcome feedback from colleagues

● To be a pastoral tutor for a group of Year 12 or Year 13 tutees, supporting their academic

and pastoral development

● To play an active role in the co-curricular offer at LAE Tottenham, including parts which

require evening or weekend commitments


What the school offers its staff

LAE Tottenham offers a range of benefits to all directly-employed members of staff,including free breakfast and lunch and access to Benenden Health private healthcare.

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.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

The London Academy of Excellence Tottenham is committed to the safeguarding and

welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening


Teacher of Biology

appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers and the

Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note that this role is ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and

therefore, you are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final

warnings that are not ‘protected’ (i.e. filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of

Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). It is an offence to apply

for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Further

information is available on the school's website.We are actively working to close the gap in areas within the school that are currently

underrepresented. To better reflect the diversity of Haringey, we especially encourage

applications from educators within the Black community, as well as other members of our

diverse community, to further enrich all aspects of our school.

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

Please complete the online application.

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About London Academy of Excellence Tottenham

School type
Free School, ages 16 to 19
Education phase
Sixth_form_or_college
School size
784 pupils enrolled
Age range
16 to 19
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
School website
London Academy of Excellence Tottenham website
Email address
mark.adams@laetottenham.ac.uk
Phone number
02083526020
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The London Academy of Excellence Tottenham, is an academically selective 16-19 free school opened as part of the redevelopment of White Hart Lane in September 2017.

LAE Tottenham's principal education sponsor is Highgate school and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club acts as the Business Sponsor.

Alongside Highgate, LAE Tottenham also benefits from partnership with eight other leading independent schools from London and the South-East: Alleyn's, Chigwell, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’, Harrow, John Lyon, North London Collegiate, Mill Hill and St Dunstan's.

LAE Tottenham is The Sunday Times Sixth Form College of the Year 2021..

Arranging a visit to London Academy of Excellence Tottenham

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mark.adams@laetottenham.ac.uk.

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