Teacher of Chemistry

Queen Mary's High School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 2AE

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September

• Closing date

  6 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  19 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: Chemistry
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a well-qualified and talented teacher to join our Chemistry department. The successful candidate will enthuse and inspire our young scientists. Experience in a grammar school setting is neither required nor expected. We welcome applications from motivated, inspirational teachers. The successful applicant will become part of a collaborative and supportive staff body, who share a vision to realise and achieve ambitious outcomes for every individual in our school.

What the school offers its staff

• A superb staff team committed to doing their absolute best for all in our school community.
• Support from our Trust central teams and other schools in our Trust to ensure you have the tools to deliver success (our schools are all located close to one another, and we work better when we are working together).
• A wealth of support for your ongoing continuing professional development, including a Trust-wide programme for teachers at all career stages, including an exceptional Early Career Teacher programme drawing on expertise from across the Mercian Trust.
• A comprehensive employee assistance and staff benefits package including Simplyhealth (cash-back health plan and 24:7 video call and telephone access to GP and counselling), salary sacrifice schemes including our new Electric Car scheme, and discounts portal (ranging from gym membership to discount cards and vouchers for online and high street retailers).
• There will never be a dull moment; we never stand still, every day offers new challenges and opportunities within an ambitious, forward-thinking team.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding at QMHS. Our school’s aims and vision statement very clearly states that we strive to ensure that the individual needs of all our highly able students are met. At QMHS and across the Mercian Trust we recognise that the emotional wellbeing and positive mental health of all members of the community is integral to our continued success. We have built and continue to strengthen a community of support for all stakeholders which includes pupils, staff and parents/carers.

Applying for the job

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

Apply for the job by following the link below

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored.

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Teacher of Chemistry Application Pack.pdf - 327 KB (opens in new tab)

About Queen Mary's High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 908 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Queen Mary's High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: bonnie.burns@merciantrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/queen-mary-s-high-school (opens in new tab)

Queen Mary’s High School is built upon a well established history of success, shaping exceptional young women for young adulthood. We are one of the top performing state schools in the country, consistently maintaining a high position nationally for GCSE and A Level outcomes. We were inspected by Ofsted in October 2022 and are proud to have been judged as Outstanding in all aspects of our provision.

Today, there are more opportunities for young women to succeed in society than there have ever been before and we firmly believe that there is no limit to the personal, social and academic achievement that is possible for each and every one of our students.

We are a school community passionate about learning and in cultivating an exceptional educational environment in which our young people are enabled to be the very best version of themselves. Our school community is one in which our students are expertly equipped with not only knowledge and understanding but the skills, the attributes and expertise to achieve their ambitions, and to fully realise their potential.

Support, care, and guidance for each young person is at our core and the Queen Mary’s High School values of responsibility, honesty, integrity, respect and tolerance underpin all that we as a school community stand for. We ask that parents help us in supporting their child in demonstrating these values each day, in school, at home and online. Only through working together in partnership will we ensure that we are all, together, incredibly proud of their achievements, progress and growth.

Arranging a visit to Queen Mary's High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email bonnie.burns@merciantrust.org.uk.

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