Teacher of Philosophy, Beliefs & Ethics (RS)

Chestnut Grove Academy, London, SW12 8JZ

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  3 June 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  22 May 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Religious education
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Inner London MPS/UPS
• Additional allowances:

  Inner London MPS/UPS

Teacher of Philosophy, Beliefs & Ethics (RS) job summary

We seek an enthusiastic, well-qualified teacher to join our successful Philosophy, Beliefs and Ethics department and teach RS up to A2 level. The subject is taught for an hour a week at GCSE and 5 hours a week at A2. You will be joining a large and experienced department that prides itself on offering a broad and inclusive curriculum. All students take the subject at GCSE and the subject is popular at A Level.

Chestnut Grove is a high performing, 11-18, multi-cultural school in Balham, South London which has won a number of awards for its inclusive approach including UNICEF Gold Status (2025). Our motto is a ‘Creative Learning Community’, demonstrating a commitment to providing our students with an innovative and exciting curriculum.

This post is suitable for an ECT for whom excellent support would be available. As the lead partner in the Wandle Learning Partnership we are able to offer exceptional opportunities for professional development.

Why Chestnut Grove?

Our staff’s well-being and morale is of the utmost importance to us. We offer a comprehensive professional development programme, through the Wandle Learning Partnership which enables staff to progress professionally; many middle and senior leaders started at the school as (NQTs) ECTs. We also have ties with first-class external providers and speakers (Equaliteach, Football Beyond Borders, Imperial College, Craig Barton, Teacher Development Trust, UCL, to name but a few recent liaisons).

We promote workload reduction strategies, Diversity, Inclusion and Equality, staff autonomy and Support Staff Council (to ensure our support staff’s needs are heard and met).

We offer a broad Wellbeing Program, which includes:

• Annual 'Wellbeing Day': a whole day of pampering with yoga, martial arts, art therapy, stress reduction, meditation workshops and pastoral CPD
• Reflective Practice: teachers are the only profession that deals with trauma without supervision - but not at Chestnut Grove! We will be providing RP sessions in which teachers can reflect and collectively problem-solve in order to develop coping strategies and improve their practice.
• Weekly yoga sessions
• Weekly staff fitness & dance session.
• Regular staff football, badminton and other sports staff elect to do

In 2019 we were awarded the Platinum Quality Mark for Professional Development and we also received the Healthy Workplace Achievement award from the Mayor of London.

The Wandle Learning Trust values the diversity of our students and is proud to inspire them through representative teaching and support staff. We aim to select all staff on merit, irrespective of race, sex, disability, age, gender reassignment, sexuality or other protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 3rd June, 2026 at 9am

ALL POSTS SUBJECT TO DBS CHECKS
Chestnut Grove is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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.

About Chestnut Grove Academy

• School type: Academies, None, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1321 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Chestnut Grove Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chestnut-grove-school

Chestnut Grove Academy is a high achieving, forward thinking, caring community. A tradition of academic rigour combined with creativity
characterises our ethos and we feel passionately that this is a winning combination.
We are proud of our students’ achievements. They are ambitious, talented and resilient and this has secured examination results which continue to go from strength to strength. We help them to achieve this through exceptionally high expectations and positive relationships.
We firmly believe that students achieve when they feel the genuine security of a community that supports learning and promotes social responsibility

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