Teacher of Mathematics
Shipston High School, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, CV36 4DY12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
22 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 October 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Full Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade: Main Scale / Upper Scale
What skills and experience we're looking for
JOB DESCRIPTION
Title: TEACHER OF MATHEMATICS
Responsible to: Headteacher
Grade: Main Scale / Upper Scale
The Role
To teach Mathematics students in Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 up to GCSE level.
Key responsibilities
- Demonstrate highly effective subject teaching that motivates, inspires and improves student attainment
- Secure academic outcomes in line with the targets set through the school’s target setting policy
- Monitor, evaluate and continually improve the quality of your planning, teaching and assessment
- Analyse the performance data of your students and respond to the outcomes of assessment to ensure appropriate planning, teaching and interventions are in place to keep all students on track to achieve their targets
- Follow all areas of subject and school policy accurately and appropriately
- Create an orderly subject environment in which the school’s culture and ethos is upheld
Other
- Be a Form Tutor (where allocated)
- Contribute to the school’s extracurricular programme
- Undertake other various responsibilities as directed by the Head of Maths
- Should the candidate be interested, there may be an opportunity for a pastoral role with a TLR.
Annual review
This job description will be reviewed annually. This is not a comprehensive statement of procedures and tasks but sets out the main expectations of the school in relation to the professional responsibilities and duties of the postholder.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Title: TEACHER OF MATHEMATICS
The following will be assessed from applications, interviews and references:
Qualification criteria
- Qualified to at least degree level or professional equivalent
- Qualified to teach and work in the U.K.
Experience
- Evidence of raising attainment in the subject
- Evidence of improved practice following feedback
- Teaching in the secondary age sector
Behaviours
Teaching
- Up to date with latest pedagogy, curriculum developments and assessment requirements
- Excellent classroom teacher with a genuine passion and a belief in the potential of every student
- Effective behaviour management, with clear boundaries, praise, rewards and sanctions
- Good planning, organisational and communication skills
- Resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement for all students
- Commitment to regular ongoing professional development to improve practice
- A role model to students, parents and other staff
- Alignment to the Shipston High School ethos and vision
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Other
- An excellent health and attendance record
- A satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check
What the school offers its staff
Shipston High School is a non-selective 11-16 mixed High School with a very special ethos and character. Our students are high achieving and increasingly successful. The school itself is located on an attractive green-field site on the outskirts of Shipston-on-Stour in South Warwickshire. Our buildings are spacious and offer a wealth of specialist and general accommodation. Significant development of the site saw a first phase of new classrooms open in 2015, with a further teaching and reception block completed in the summer of 2018. A £10.5 million refurbishment and redesign of the original building is currently underway, due for completion in 2026.
Visitors frequently remark on the distinctive ethos of Shipston High School. In particular, they praise the obvious energy and enthusiasm of staff and students, the excellent relations, and the happy and mutually respectful atmosphere. They also express admiration for the unusual confidence and maturity of our students and the way they rise to the challenge of taking on increasing levels of responsibility.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Shipston High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
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About Shipston High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 600 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Shipston High School website
- Email address
- lernst@shipstonhigh.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01608 661833
Shipston High School is a high-achieving 11-16 school in attractive rural surroundings.
Shipston High School has a unique school atmosphere, arising from our high expectations and our student-centred ethos. It is an ethos in which our teachers are able to focus on the wellbeing and academic progress of our young people. As a result, both students and teachers flourish.
This is a hugely exciting time for the school. At this point of significant national change in education, we are highly ambitious for our students and we recognise that our staff are essential to their success. Examination results have shown impressive attainment in the last few years and, as a result, the school is regularly oversubscribed.
Our students are our best advertisement. They are motivated, hard working and well behaved. In July 2023, Ofsted noted that ‘pupils are mature, polite and considerate of others’, further observing that ‘Pupils show positive attitudes towards learning’.
Arranging a visit to Shipston High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lernst@shipstonhigh.co.uk.
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