Teacher of Health and Social Care (with PE)

Batley Girls' High School, Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 0LD

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  01 September 2026

• Closing date

  9 April 2026 at 1pm

• Date listed

  20 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Health and social care
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: ECT/MPS/UPR
• Additional allowances:

  ECT/MPS/UPR

Teacher of Health and Social Care (with PE) job summary

Batley Multi Academy Trust’s sole purpose is to provide a great education for Primary and Secondary learners throughout a local family of schools. The Trust is passionately committed to the communities of Batley, Birstall, Dewsbury and our surrounding areas, serving our local learners and their families in order to secure excellent educational outcomes, partnered with high aspirations. Batley Multi Academy Trust currently comprises Batley Girls’ High School, Batley Grammar School, Field Lane Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Healey Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Manorfield Infant and Nursery School and Upper Batley High School. The Trust also operates two community centres called The Fields and the Yorkshire Rose Teaching Partnership for adult education and the Smart Academy.We provide high quality education for all young people. This collaboration enables us to share expertise, knowledge and best practice to ensure academic and pastoral excellence throughout all of our schools, with all schools embracing the same overall ethos and values, whilst maintaining their own unique characters.

Batley Girls’ High School is a 11-19 school and we are very proud of our achievements. Respect for self, for others and for learning is at the core of everything we do. We are dedicated to investing in our staff and passionately committed to their development, providing a supportive environment where people can truly grow and flourish.

We are seeking to appoint an innovative and enthusiastic teacher of health and social care to become part of our successful, supportive, popular and hardworking applied subjects faculty. If you are a highly effective classroom teacher and are keen to make a difference to the learning and aspirations of our learners, then we would welcome your application.

The successful candidate will:

• Have the ability to teach health and social care to KS4 and KS5 learners.

• Ensure all learners are high achievers in the subjects.

• Have the ability to teach core PE to at least KS3.

In we return we can offer:

• A firm commitment to your professional development with a structured programme of CPD for continued progression.

• A supportive team of exceptional staff and school leaders to ensure success in the role.

• Excellent facilities with highly motivated learners who are keen to engage in lessons.

• Leadership development opportunities and a bespoke development programme.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive forward thinking Trust, who in return for your commitment and hard work, will support you to achieve your own career goals and aspirations.

Please contact the People and Talent team at: recruitment@batleymat.co.uk, if you have any questions or to arrange a visit.

Batley Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check for Regulated Activity and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

Batley Multi Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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.

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

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 Batley Girls' High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1371 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Batley Girls' High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/batley-girls-high-school

Batley Girls’ High School is an 11-19 school and we are very proud of our achievements: ‘Students achieve exceptionally well in this outstanding academy. They make rapid and sustained progress’ (Ofsted, 2013). We have an ethos based around the ideas of Achievement, Respect and Transformation (ART). Respect for self, for others and for learning is at the core of everything we do. We are dedicated to investing in our staff and passionately committed to their development, providing a supportive environment where people can truly grow and flourish.

School location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in West Yorkshire