Teacher of Mathematics
Ashton Park School, Bristol, BS3 2JL11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
23 March 2026 at 9am
Date listed
12 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (Actual) M1 - UPS3
Teacher of Mathematics job summary
Teacher of Mathematics
Job Advert
Teacher of Mathematics
Permanent, Full-time Pay Scale: M1-UPS3 (possible fixed term TLR 2a for the right candidate) Start date: 1st September 2026 Interview date: 26th March 2026
We require an enthusiastic Teacher of Mathematics to join our team. You must be an excellent classroom teacher, passionate about Mathematics and able to deliver high quality and impactful lessons. There is a possible TLR for the right candidate to assist in leading this core faculty on the next stage of its exciting journey towards excellence.
What Ashton Park School will offer you:
✔ A school with excellent outcomes where staff are happy and valued
✔ A commitment to your well-being with 14% PPA
✔ A team of outstanding Mathematics specialists who are passionate about their subject
✔ A community of staff, students and parents with a strong culture of professional development and improvement
✔ Employee benefits including employee assistance, cycle to work and discounted access to Ashton Park Fitness Centre
Developing students for a lifelong love of all things mathematical
Mathematics at Ashton Park School is growing from strength to strength. In the last four years we have transformed our pedagogy, our curriculum and ultimately our outcomes. At Key Stage 4, we are proud that Mathematics now have positive P8 scores, demonstrating our students are working above the national average. Our curriculum (which you can see on our website) is rigorous and robust. Students are taught carefully chosen units that spiral through the years as they progress with us. Our pedagogy with a focus on modelling and purposeful practice ensures that all students make progress.
The successful candidate will be an effective and inspiring classroom practitioner who can plan and deliver engaging and ambitious lessons. Key Stage 5 experience is desirable as there is the potential to teach in our growing sixth form.
Ashton Park is growing great learners, great leaders and a great community
Ashton Park is an inclusive and oversubscribed school, with over 1200 students, set in the beautiful grounds of Ashton Court Estate in Bristol. Our school is in the top 3% of most improved schools in the country when you compare our 2023 GCSE results with those pre-pandemic. In October 2022, Ofsted graded us ‘Good’ in all areas, and we are proud they recognised that: ‘Pupils are happy to attend Ashton Park School. They enjoy their lessons and the range of opportunities the school provides for them. Staff know pupils well and want the best for them.’ The report also commented that ‘lessons are purposeful and learning is rarely interrupted by poor behaviour.’
We are on a journey to excellence and have a mission to grow great learners, great leaders and a great community.
Through our Growing Great Learners framework, we guide and support staff to become excellent teachers, but we also give freedom and autonomy to allow practitioners to be the teacher they want to be in the classroom. We are committed to growing great leaders by providing high quality CPD and focusing on well-being in all the decisions we make. We are growing a great community by ensuring we focus on students, parents and the wider community through our strong culture and ethics. This is an exciting school to be a part of, one that prides itself on providing a happy and supportive environment for both students and staff.
If you wish to be considered for the fixed term TLR post, please make clear in the application form how your abilities and experience have prepared you to contribute to the leadership and development of the faculty.
We wish you the very best of luck with your application and hope to meet you soon!
Please be aware that we will review applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close this posting once suitable candidates have been found. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible in order to be considered.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Ashton Park School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1252 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ashton Park School website
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