20 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    12 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    23 January 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

Mathematics

Working pattern

Full time: Term Time - Monday to Friday

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Sedgefield Community College, part of Laidlaw Schools Trust, are seeking to appoint a Teacher of Maths from September 2025.

We particularly welcome applications from candidates who are new to the profession.We invest a great deal in our programme for Early Career Teachers and are confident that we are a superb environment for those new to teaching who wish to develop rapidly in the early stages of their career.This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join our Maths team that enjoys excellent subject leadership.

Sedgefield Community College is a highly successful 11-16 school located in County Durham.Our students join us from the village of Sedgefield and also many other local towns and villages in the area.We pride ourselves on the way a very comprehensive intake of students comes together as one strong school community.Our vision at Sedgefield is summed up by the phrase ‘Achieve at Sedgefield’ and we work tirelessly to support all students to achieve excellent progress in every sense of the word.Our success in achieving this vision has resulted in the school being extremely popular for a number of years and this is reflected in very high student numbers.

We are very fortunate at Sedgefield Community College to enjoy exceptional facilities in our state-of-the-art buildings and also a fabulous school site.Of course, any building is secondary to the people who are to be found within it.We have a brilliant staff team and we all share a number of common values that inform the way we work each day.Primary amongst these is the fact that we want all of the team at SCC to be positive about their role every day.At times we will face challenges, but with our highly skilled team, we know we can overcome these to provide the exceptional education that our students deserve.

What the school offers its staff

At Laidlaw Schools Trust we appreciate the amazing work that our people do every day and like to reward our staff through benefits that are mentally, physically and financially rewarding.To see a complete list of our benefits please visit:https://www.laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk/120/benefits

To see the full job description and person specification for this role please refer to the attached supporting documents.

To apply please complete our online application form here:https://www.northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Teacher_of_Maths/275074

If you require assistance with your application please contact:recruitment@laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk

Closing Date: 12 noon on Wednesday 12 February 2025

We are an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their commitment to children’s safeguarding. All successful appointments will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and a range of other pre- employment recruitment checks.

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.

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About Sedgefield Community College

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

At Sedgefield Community College, the word ACHIEVE underpins our desire to support all of our students to reach their full potential during their time with us. It represents our determination for students to succeed in all of the different aspects of life at our school, whether it be reaching their full academic potential in the classroom or being the best that they can be beyond it.

We are a school that successfully combines traditional values of respect and personal responsibility with an appreciation of the necessity to always look forward and continue our development to achieve all that we can.

Arranging a visit to Sedgefield Community College

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hannah.kiernan@laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk.

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