22 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    5 January 2026

  • Closing date

    16 June 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    23 May 2025

Job details

Job role

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subject

Computing

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications:

Essential

  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Qualified Teacher Status

Desirable

  • 2:1 or better

Experience:

Essential

  • A passion for Computing and for teaching
  • A strong academic background and subject knowledge
  • An excellent classroom practitioner (or the potential to be one)
  • A commitment to professional development
  • An understanding of the needs of pupils across the ability range
  • A teacher who can inspire and enthuse pupils and who uses a range of teaching and learning strategies for effective delivery
  • An understanding of how to assess pupil progress
  • An awareness of ways to raise pupil attainment
  • A commitment to safeguarding and the welfare of students

Desirable

  • Good knowledge of the National Curriculum in the subject
  • The ability to use ICT to enhance learning and aid teaching

What the school offers its staff

Employee Benefits

Lifestyle and wellbeing

  • Salary sacrifice electric car leasing scheme
  • Four electric car charging points
  • Family-friendly policies
  • Attractive salary and pension
  • Generous annual leave entitlement/term time only working options
  • Free one-to-one wellbeing support
  • Onsite parking facilities and cycle storage
  • Free/discounted access to the school’s onsite
  • Gym (conditions apply)
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Techscheme – save money on the latest tech from Apple and Currys PC World
  • Blue Light Card - Discount Scheme
  • Staff social events
  • Onsite catering (8.00am - 1.30pm daily)

Professional development

  • Every year, there is some disaggregated INSET time, resulting in additional holiday days per academic year
  • Personalised CPD hours to develop areas specific to your practice and needs
  • Support to complete further academic study and professional qualifications
  • Access to high quality in-house and external leadership development programmes, tailored to a wide variety of levels of experience
  • Membership of your subject association through your department
  • Membership of the Chartered College of Teaching for ECTs
  • A well-stocked CPD library

Statutory and other benefits

  • A wide range of statutory benefits including sick pay, maternity, parental, and adoption leave
  • Enhanced Paternity Leave Policy
  • We will honour your continuity of service in other state funded schools in relation to sick pay and pension rights.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are an equal opportunities employer and value and respect diversity across our whole school community. Bournside is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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About Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1828 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
School website
Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre website
Email address
recruitment@bournside.com
Phone number
01242235555
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teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cheltenham-bournside-school-and-sixth-form-centre-cheltenham

Bournside is the largest comprehensive 11-18 school in Gloucestershire. We are an established single academy trust with a good reputation (Ofsted ‘Good’ rating 2022), wide catchment, and a strong presence in the community. Our school is consistently oversubscribed with a PAN of 300, and most of our students choose to stay with us for their
post-16 study.

Bournside is a mixed, non-denominational academy school for students aged 11 to 18. It is located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It settled in its current location of Warden Hill in the early part of the 1970s and converted to academy status in 2011.

Arranging a visit to Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@bournside.com.

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