26 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    3 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    30 January 2025

Job details

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

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS / UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will:

  • teach at all levels and to all abilities, seeking to ensure that all pupils make very good progress, enjoy their learning, and become well educated
  • contribute more widely to the well-being of our pupils, through being a form tutor, undertaking duties, and being a role model for them for their learning and their conduct
  • have an enthusiasm for their subject, which motivates and supports other staff and pupils
  • be an enthusiastic and innovative team player with strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to achieving high standards within a successful department
  • be an excellent classroom practitioner
  • have a clear understanding of the characteristics of high-quality teaching and be able and willing to teach across the whole age and ability range
  • quickly build rapport and effective professional relationships with both our young people and colleagues
  • understand that behaviour management starts with the quality of teaching in the classroom
  • demonstrate personal resilience and role model those personal qualities we wish to instil in our young people

What the school offers its staff

  • A welcoming school, with friendly, enthusiastic and supportive staff
  • Staff benefits -employee discounts, discounted gym membership, Cycle2work scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
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About Sir William Stanier School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
693 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16

Sir William Stanier; a school at the heart of its community, built and equipped for learning in the 21st century. An exciting and stimulating place of learning with innovative practice, high standards and traditional values.

Sir William Stanier School is part of The Learning Partnership.

The Learning Partnership is a new multi-academy trust that was formed on 1st September 2023 as a merger between The Learning Alliance and The Learning for Life Partnership. The trust consists of fourteen schools, eight of which are primary schools and six are secondary schools, all based across east Cheshire and north Staffordshire.

We are an inclusive school and believe all of our students can achieve success in life. We see it as our responsibility, working in partnership with our families, primary schools, and post 16 partners, to provide the opportunities and environment that will nurture a love of learning. We embrace change and challenge and aim to develop students that do the same.

Arranging a visit to Sir William Stanier School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email carol.ladley@sws.cheshire.sch.uk.

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