Teacher of Geography - Highdown School
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre, Reading, Berkshire, RG4 8LRThis job expired on 4 December 2022 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2023
Closing date
4 December 2022 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 November 2022
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time - 1.0 FTE
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- £25,714 - £36,961
What skills and experience we're looking for
Main Scale, Full or part time considered. For a January 2023start.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 28 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
We are looking for an outstanding, passionate and dynamic practitioner to join our highly successful and well resourced Geography department of 6 staff This post would be suitable for either an ECT or an experienced teacher.
A willingness to teach across all years and abilities is essential.
What the school offers its staff
Why Highdown School?
- We are a Good School with many outstanding features which continues to rapidly improve
- We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
- We provide highly regarded professional learning and Coaching for Excellence programmes
- We have adopted a ‘Fair Workload Charter’
- Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities
We are on a journey to becoming a ‘regional centre of excellence’ Why not join us?
Closing date : Sunday 4th December 2022
Further details about the role
For details and an application form visit our website www.highdown.reading.sch.uk.
Please contact Miss Nicci Burns, Headteacher’s PA, by emailhnb@highdown.reading.sch.ukor call 0118 901 5800 for more information.
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
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.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1575 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown was awarded academy status in 2010 and was judged to be a good school by Ofsted in April 2015.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a thriving school where all students are challenged to reach excellence every day.
Our most important resource is our staff. Therefore, we aim to create the conditions and culture within the academy that make Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre a rewarding place to work. We are committed to investing in staff professional learning and leadership development, taking action to rationalise workload, promote mental and physical health and wellbeing, and encourage collaboration and peer support.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, teaching and support staff (including temporary and supply staff), governors and volunteers to share this commitment.
Arranging a visit to Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk.
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