Teacher of History
Chipping Norton School, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5DY20 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
11 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
15 January 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- History
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE)
Teacher of History job summary
We are seeking a colleague who is skilled at making students feel engaged and motivated and plays an important role in contributing to student outcomes.
The History team forms a warm, encouraging and kind department. The team enjoys excellent leadership and superb examination performance over many years – at both GCSE and A level.
We are a wholly inclusive environment with a simple goal that seeks to ensure that everyone achieves and everyone belongs. We are dedicated to educating the whole person and invite all staff to nurture courageous and compassionate hearts, alongside curious and creative minds.
Our new colleague must be an excellent practitioner who possesses the potential to be exceptional, and who understands the importance of good communication and working effectively as part of a team. We welcome all applications, including from ECTs.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate and therefore, an offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with the Head of Department, Tracy Walker, about the role, prior to application, then please email Tracy Walker, Head of History, on twalker@chippingnortonschool.org, or telephone 01608 544998.
This post includes regulated activity relevant to children.
What skills / experience are required
We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic colleague, who must be:
Able to contribute to and support student outcomes;
Committed to excellence and continuous learning;
Prepared to have high expectations in all areas of their teaching practice.
What we can offer
A committed department that is part of this vibrant and dedicated rural comprehensive school;
A school that is widely known for calm classrooms and corridors, the passion and skill of its teaching and support staff, and the constantly improving facilities on offer;
Students who are kind, polite and keen to succeed, and respond enthusiastically to well-planned and carefully delivered lessons.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is Everyone Achieving, Everyone Belonging.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles around High-TEMPO teaching, and a commitment to calm, kind and compassionate classrooms.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
The River Learning Trust and Chipping Norton School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up-to-date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
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 are not accepted.
About Chipping Norton School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1002 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Chipping Norton School website (opens in new tab)
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