17 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    23 February 2026

  • Closing date

    28 November 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    11 November 2025

Job details

Job role

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Subjects

PSHE, Religious education

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (Actual) MPS/UPS

Teacher of PSHE/Religious Studies (Maternity Cover) job summary

We are looking for an outstanding Teacher of PSHE who has the ability to deliver high quality teaching and learning to our students. The successful candidate will be joining a growing Ethics department of strong specialist practitioners.

Alongside teaching the faculty’s PSHE curriculum to Y7-Y13, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to teach on the Ethics faculty’s assessed courses of GCSE Religious Studies or A Level Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology. Please state clearly with your application the subjects you are qualified and confident to teach and your relevant experience.

You must possess a track record of successful teaching practice, underpinned by strong subject knowledge. In addition, we are seeking candidates with highly developed communication and organisation skills combined with the ability to engage, enthuse and motivate our students to achieve their potential.

The person we are looking for should be:

  • passionate and enthusiastic about learning and about their own specialist subject
  • an inspirational, creative and highly effective teacher
  • driven to ensure excellent progress for all, especially disadvantaged learners
  • a hardworking, imaginative thinker who has excellent organisational and time management skills
  • a team player who wants to work and engage with colleagues at all levels within the school.

At Meadowhead School Academy Trust you will find:

  • students eager for success
  • supportive colleagues
  • excellent professional development and guidance

The school will seek to invest in the successful candidate, offering extensive CPD opportunities to fast track to middle leadership through enrolment on national leadership programmes. A CPD plan will be designed to ensure career progression in line with aspirations and personal goals.

Staff benefits also include enrolment onto the enhanced package for Smart Clinic which provides a wealth of health and wellbeing support for all employees.

If you would like to join our school, where every person matters, please submit your application by the closing date below. Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact Fiona Cope at: copef@meadowhead.sheffield.sch.uk to arrange a visit.

SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT

Meadowhead School Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.

Any position that involves working with children requires declaration of all convictions/cautions regardless of whether these are deemed as spent and a DBS check will be carried out before any employment commences. Should you be shortlisted for this position, you will be asked to declare any convictions.

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025 and safer recruitment practices, the school will conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. The online search is part of our safeguarding checks and will seek publicly available information on candidates’ suitability to work with children.

References will be obtained before interview at shortlisting stage and may be used in the interview process. If previous employment has included working with children, then at least one referee must be from this employment regardless of whether this is the current or most recent employment. Any gaps in employment must be detailed and an explanation provided in the relevant section.

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

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.

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About Meadowhead School Academy Trust

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1960 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
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School website
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