29 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    13 April 2026

  • Closing date

    9 January 2026 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    11 December 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

Humanities

Working pattern

Full time: Monday to Friday.

Contract type

Fixed term - One term (13.4.26 to 22.7.26) - Maternity or parental leave cover

Pay scale

Main Pay Range/Upper Pay Range

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate:

  • Is committed to excellence
  • Maintains the highest professional standards
  • Places a child at the centre of everything they do
  • Ideally a teacher of history, or a high-quality teacher of a different subject
  • Is able to teach all ages and abilities
  • Builds on the work already done by the class teacher and delivers lessons in line with the scheme of work
  • Tracks and analyses data to maximise pupil progress
  • Participates in subject and school meetings


What the school offers its staff

  • A talented and highly motivated team of professionals at all levels
  • Continuing professional development based on research and improving teaching and learning
  • A school with a calm and considered environment
  • A school that pupils, staff and the community feel proud of

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

Portchester Community School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Portchester Community School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
692 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
School website
Portchester Community School website
Email address
recruitment@portchester.hants.sch.uk
Phone number
023 9236 4399
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teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/portchester-community-school

We are a growing 11-16 comprehensive school with a small, Specialist Provision for Physically Disabled pupils. Graded 'good' by Ofsted in our most recent inspection (January 2024) and graded as 'outstanding' for Personal Development.
We pride ourselves in being highly inclusive and pupil focused. We were awarded the prestigious National SMSC Quality Mark Gold Award, for the second time in April 2024.
We are very proud of our pupils and their achievements. Our destinations data for our school leavers is consistently ambitious and profitable for our pupils.

Arranging a visit to Portchester Community School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@portchester.hants.sch.uk.

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