Teacher of Psychology (Mat Cover)
The Folkestone School for Girls, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3RB24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
December 2026
Closing date
1 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 5
Subject
- Psychology
Working pattern
- Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): Flexible - full or part time considered. School operates Monday to Friday 8.30 - 15.30
Contract type
- Fixed term - 7-8 months with opportunity to extend - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- Teachers Main or upper Pay Scale commensurate with skills and experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
We seek to appoint a passionate, hard-working, and engaging psychology teacher to join our enthusiastic, and forward-thinking department. We can offer an innovative & inclusive team of staff, and students who are intelligent, curious and driven to succeed.
We are seeking someone who can teach A level Psychology, however the ability to teach other subjects would be advantageous with preference given to candidates with the ability to teach Criminology. You will possess the ability to engage, stretch and challenge students of all ages and abilities in this outstanding 11-18 grammar school.
You will need great people skills, reserves of resilience and enthusiasm and a capacity for sustained hard work. Perhaps most importantly, you will be positive, optimistic and have a can-do attitude to anything that will benefit FSG Girls!
You must be a qualified Psychology teacher who is passionate about teaching, with a track record of examination success at both GCSE and Advanced Level. ECT’s are also welcome to apply.
What the school offers its staff
Staff at FSG enjoy a range of wellbeing initiatives including access to an employee assistance program and Occupational Health service and the flexibility to balance work and home life. We carefully curate our school calendar to manage workloads while providing abundant opportunities for staff to escape the classroom. You’ll be able to get involved with our unique personal development and character education programme, The FSGBacc, which encompasses a wide range of activities – from our very own escape room and radio station, through to our extensive Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme or our Combined Cadet Force Contingent! Sport, Music, Debate, Drama, Dance, Adventure – there really is something for everyone! Find out more details here: https://sites.google.com/folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk/fsgbacc/
You can find out all about our school and about our unique school vision and ethos via our school website.
Further information about the job
We are a busy, vibrant, and happy school – academically successful but driven to achieve much more. We believe that education must maintain a balance between intellect and character. An outstanding education is not either/or. It is both. We believe that qualifications are what students get; they do not define who they are and will play only a part in shaping the people they become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do.
At the Folkestone School for Girls, students do not complete an excessive number of qualifications. This allows them not only time to focus efforts on achieving the absolute best grades within these, but also time to participate in our huge array of co-curricular activities in school and/or pursue interests & hobbies out of school. There is time to spend with friends and family and time, too, to just be a child. A justifiable balance between intellect and character.
We welcome applications from teachers ready to think outside the box and be passionate about offering students a well rounded school experience.
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Folkestone School for Girls
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1145 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- kwhawell@folkestonegirls.kent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01303 251125
It’s not just a school.
It’s not just a circle of friends or a social network.
It’s a global family,
a fountain of knowledge,
a pearl of wisdom,
a spark of genius,
It’s questions to ask
and a quest for answers.
It’s not just an essay, an equation, an experiment, an exercise,
a heated debate or a point of principle.
It’s not just qualifications.
It’s a tent to pitch, a stage to fill, a wall to scale, a trail to master,
It’s the keys to the door, a broader experience, a wider perspective, an international outlook.
It’s not just the classroom, the concert hall, the sports field.
It’s life’s rich tapestry.
It’s an adventure, an expedition, an opportunity,
It’s an empty book, a blank page, a loaded pen.
It’s a new chapter. Write it.
It’s a new journey. Live it.
The Folkestone School for Girls is driven by the unshakeable belief that exam results are what you get; they do not define who you are and will play only a part in shaping the person you become. Our academic curriculum therefore is only a part of what we do! We want all girls to have the opportunity to explore and excel, to learn and to grow - not only in the classroom but beyond it. Alongside our unique personal development and character education programme, the FSGBacc, our international outlook is also at the heart of what we do and equally vital to our ethos; we want our girls to know that as human beings there is much more that unites us than divides us. We believe that our curriculum should not just interest and inspire the girls, not just reflect and respond and be relevant to the world we live in but that we need to be much more ambitious; that the curriculum we teach should help to change the world for the better: a curriculum that teaches our girls to value themselves, value each other, value the world we live in and the world around them. A curriculum for values. A curriculum for empathy. A curriculum for wisdom. A curriculum to change their world. A curriculum to change the world.
Our ambition for our school is to be the best in the world; nothing less. To be world leading and world changing; to know the whole child/every child and have a curriculum which develops the whole child/every child.
Our ambition for our girls is that they leave us after seven years well qualified and well rounded; intellect and character. They will feel ten feet tall, be bold and spectacular. They will have the knowledge, the skills, the drive, the courage, the wisdom, the optimism and the values to change the world for the better.
Intellect & character. This is our curriculum. It’s what we do. It’s who we are. We are extremely proud of it.
Come join us.
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