Teacher of History (Maternity Cover)
Sir Graham Balfour High School, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 1NR13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
2 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 April 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- History
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday - Friday 6.5 hours per day 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Fixed term - Unsure, up to 12 months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650 - £49,084
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic teacher of History to join our very successful Humanities Faculty. The successful candidate will have a firm commitment to raising whole-school achievement; have a professional approach to staff development; high expectations; and a determination to succeed.
The faculty is at an exciting point in its development and enjoying considerable success in public exams at all levels. We are looking to appoint a forward thinking, able professional to join the Faculty in its continuing development. This post would suit any well-qualified and ambitious teacher of History, including newly qualified teachers (ECTs).
What the school offers its staff
At Sir Graham Balfour we offer:
- A well-motivated staff, who embrace willingly a culture of professional development.
- Investment into extra non-contact time for all teachers to support the planning, preparation and assessment of lessons.
- An ever-growing reputation in the local community which has resulted in the school being consistently oversubscribed in an area where student rolls are falling.
- A highly positive climate for learning.
- A first-rate learning environment. We are housed in buildings completed in 2002 and financed via a PFI initiative.
- Innovative 14-19 collaboration and a stable roll at KS5.
- A commitment to best practice in all we do.
Further details about the role
Please note:
- All applicants will be submitted for an enhanced DBS check.
- Applications will only be accepted if submitted on the enclosed formal application form.
- Two references will be required, one of which must be from your most recent employer. In the case of teachers, one reference must come from your most recent headteacher.
- Once a written reference has been received, we will contact the referee by telephone to confirm the provenance of that reference.
- If shortlisted, online searches will be carried out, in order to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with the applicant at interview.
- If shortlisted, we will request a portrait photo of you to attach to your file and to help confirm your identity.
- If appointed, the successful applicant will be informed that the appointment is subject to satisfactory completion of the following checks: the right to work in the UK, qualifications requirements, satisfactory DBS Enhanced Disclosure, the Criminal Record Self-Declaration Form, teacher prohibition and barred list checks, pre-employment medical screening and satisfactory references (if not already received).
Visits to the school are strongly recommended and can be arranged by contacting Mrs Vicki McKeen (details below).
For an application pack, please access our website, www.sirgrahambalfour.co.uk or contact Mrs Vicki McKeen, Headteacher’s PA, on vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk or telephone 01785 223490. The closing date for applications is at 1.30pm on Friday 2nd May 2025. Please return completed applications to vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk
Shortlisting for this post will take place on Friday 2nd May 2025 and successful applicants will be contacted no later than 5pm on the same day. If you have not heard from us by this time, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Interviews will take place week commencing Tuesday 6th May 2025. They will include a tour around the school, meetings with the Design Technology Faculty, delivery of a lesson and interviews for the short-listed candidates. Further details of the lesson will be sent out to the shortlisted candidates.
Commitment to safeguarding
Sir Graham Balfour School recognises its legal duty under s175 Education Act 2002 and the 1989 and 2004 Children Acts. We take seriously our responsibilities to protect and safeguard the interests of all students. This organisation recognises that effective child protection work requires sound procedures, good inter-agency co-operation and a workforce that is competent and confident in responding to child protection situations.
Our Safeguarding Policy aims to provide a framework which ensures that all our practice in regard to safeguarding children is consistent with the stated values and procedures that underpin all work with children and young people.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Sir Graham Balfour High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 970 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sir Graham Balfour High School website
- Email address
- vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01785 223490
Welcome to Sir Graham Balfour School which OFSTED in October 2024 found to be a ‘Good’ school.
Our vision is summed up in our mission statement –
‘Learning, Working and Succeeding Together’
Our vision is summed up in our mission statement of “Learning, Working and Succeeding Together”. We believe that the best possible care we can give to our students will enable them to leave school with the very best GCSE and A level grades possible. This sits behind every objective in the School Improvement Plan. The “together” of our mission statement is at the heart of our approach. We will work together with parents and students in a collaborative and cooperative way as we aim for academic and personal excellence for each and every child in our care. We aim for our students to communicate clearly with others; to be compassionate and caring; to make responsible choices; to be ambitious; to demonstrate perseverance and resilience in the harder moments; to show pride in the successes they achieve and to be proud of themselves during their time at Sir Graham Balfour School.
We passionately believe that the circumstances of birth or upbringing should not be the key determining factors to success in life and we are relentless in our ambition for all children to achieve as well as possible at Sir Graham Balfour School, regardless of their sexual orientation, socio-economic, ethnic or gender status.
Our Values
We know that staff and parents will not always be there, at the point where critical decisions need to be made. This is why we are committed to values based learning; rules prescribe a set of appropriate/inappropriate behaviours which are specific to given contexts, whereas values provide a set of aspirational guidelines within which children must choose the right behaviour or action for the vast array of contexts they will be faced with in life. These are the values which we believe will help our students to become excellent citizens of Stafford and beyond:
Commitment to excellence
Ambition for ourselves and others
Responsibility for ourselves and others
Care for the local and wider Community
Respect, Kindness and Compassion for ourselves and others
Perseverance and resilience
Pride in working hard and the success it brings
Our values drive and shape every aspect of school life, taking the place of school rules. They seek to reinforce the development of the whole person, in addition to the academic. They are values which will, if routinely exemplified and embedded, give our young people all the skills and characteristics necessary to become outstanding citizens of the future.
Arranging a visit to Sir Graham Balfour High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk.
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