Teacher of Physics
Prince Henry's High School, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 4QH17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
8 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 December 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- Physics, Science
Working pattern
- Full time: The school's normal working day is from 9am to 3.35pm, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M2 to UPS3 (£33,665 to £49,338)
Additional allowances
A potential TLR3 (£2,298 pa) opportunity as Co-ordinator of Science suited to the strengths of the candidate may be available. Details can be discussed at interview, if appropriate.
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Will suit an early career or experienced teacher
- Ability to teach Physics to Key Stage 5 - essential
- Ability to teach Science up to Key Stage 4 - essential
- Potential TLR3 opportunity as Co-ordinator of Science suited to strengths of the successful candidate may be available
- Right to work in the UK. Please note we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for international candidates.
What the school offers its staff
- Excellent recently modernised Science facilities including 11 fully equipped laboratories, 3 prep rooms and large departmental office
- Support from 2 very experienced Science Technicians
- Opportunity to become involved in a wide range of extra-curricular activities, including overseas trips; Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme; STEM; sport, music & performing arts
- Wide range of career development opportunities through the Prince Henry's Teaching School Hub
- High quality and pleasant teaching environment in a school that has benefited from £10m of capital investment since 2013, including £1.2m modernisation of Science Department
- Cycle to Work Scheme (salary sacrifice)
- Electric Vehicle Leasing Scheme (salary sacrifice)
Further details about the role
We require a well-qualified teacher of Science who must be able to teach Science up to Key Stage 4 and be able to offer Physics to Key Stage 5. A potential TLR3 (£2,298 pa) opportunity as Co-ordinator of Science suited to the strengths of the candidate may be available. Details can be discussed at interview, if appropriate.
This post provides an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to work in a large and high-performing department with supportive & caring colleagues, as well as the option to be involved in a wide range of STEM and other extra-curricular activities. As part of recently completed ten-year £10m capital investment programme, our Science Department has benefited from a £1.2m refurbishment and modernisation programme, meaning that lessons are taught in light and airy state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms.
Prince Henry’s is a popular and over-subscribed 13-18 High School with approximately 1,300 on roll including more than 330 in one of Worcestershire’s largest Sixth Forms and is a founder school within the Worcestershire Hills Trust. The school enjoys an excellent reputation locally, and consistently been judged outstanding by Ofsted, most recently in March 2024, when it was judged to be outstanding in all areas, including Sixth Form. Among its many accreditations, the school holds the National SMSCD Gold Award, the Career Mark, the NACE Challenge Award and is a Centre of Excellence for the Inclusion Quality Mark.
The successful candidate will be committed to the highest standards of academic achievement and behaviour and will genuinely enjoy working with teenagers of all abilities. They will have a clear understanding of how to achieve and maintain high standards and will already have a record as an excellent classroom teacher or, for applicants still in training, the potential to become outstanding.
Having been a Teaching School since 2014, Prince Henry’s became a Teaching School Hub in September 2021, with Hub status being re-accredited for a further four years in 2024. Supporting and developing the careers of all our teachers, from Initial Teacher Training through to Senior Leadership progression sits at the heart of our ethos in relation to colleagues working at Prince Henry’s.
Potential applicants are welcome to telephone Claire Fisher, Head of Science/Assistant Headteacher to discuss this post or to arrange to visit the school if they wish.
Commitment to safeguarding
Prince Henry's High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all shortlisted candidates.
The school will also conduct an online search on all shortlisted candidates which may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with you at interview.
Applying for the job
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About Prince Henry's High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1293 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Prince Henry's High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- secretary@princehenrys.worcs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01386 765588
Prince Henry's is a popular and over-subscribed school in the picturesque Worcestershire market town of Evesham, with approximately 1,300 students, including a large Sixth Form of 330 students. It has been consistently judged outstanding by Ofsted, most recently in March 2024.
Among its many accreditations, the school holds the National SMSCD Gold Award, the Career Mark, the NACE Challenge Award, Music Mark, Artsmark Gold, School Games Platinum Award and is a Centre of Excellence for the Inclusion Quality Mark. It is also a Trauma Informed School.
Having been a Teaching School since 2014, in 2021 it became the Teaching School Hub for the WM1 area of Wychavon, Worcester, Wyre Forest, Malvern Hills and Herefordshire, with Teaching School Hub accreditation being re-accredited for a further four years in 2024.
Since 2013, the school has benefited from a capital investment programme of £10 million, which has seen the construction of a 14-classroom building to house English and Modern Foreign Languages, a new £3.5m classroom block for Art, DT and Food Technology, the complete modernisation and refurbishment of Science and our Sixth Form Centre, the installation of a 3G football pitch, as well as significant improvements to all other curriculum areas.
Arranging a visit to Prince Henry's High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email secretary@princehenrys.worcs.sch.uk.
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