Teacher of RE
Lavington School, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 4EB82 days remaining to apply
Start date details
01/01/2026 or sooner
Closing date
30 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Religious Education
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE)
Teacher of RE job summary
‘We believe that every child should be happy, healthy, safe and achieve more than they thought possible; at school and beyond'
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Teacher of Religious Education with an interest in, or ability to teach A-Level RE. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a successful, hard-working and friendly community.
The ideal candidate will be an excellent classroom practitioner with the ability to deliver high quality, effective teaching, which engages and motivates students.
In return we offer:
- A competitive salary
- A full and varied CPD programme offering teaching and leadership development for our staff
- An opportunity to work in a supportive team from whom you can learn, develop and grow
- Wider opportunities to be involved across the EQUA Mead Learning Trust
- An energised and professional working environment
- Benefits include: pension scheme, free on-site parking and cycle to work scheme
About the Department
The aim of the RE department is for our pupils to reflect on a range of individual, school, local, national and world issues in order to develop a vision for their future and the future of others. We hope that our students recognise the importance of their own creativity in improving the quality of life not only for themselves but also for future generations. Additionally, RE allows the development of rigorous, critical and analytical thinking and argumentation in the evaluation of particular concepts and ways of experiencing the world. Therefore, we aim to foster students’ ability to reason, to avoid making assumptions or taking information at face value. Overall, we want students at Lavington to enjoy the subject, with excellent teaching and create enthusiastic, curious, and independent learners.
Job Description
Main Purpose
- To lead this subject by providing vision, inspiration, innovation and motivation
- To ensure that students make excellent progress in Religious Education and that they enjoy it
- To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate
- To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential
- To contribute to raising standards of student attainment
- To share and support the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth
Please view the attached recruitment pack for a more detailed job and person description.
This role will involve contact with children and the post holder will be engaged in regulated activity relevant to children and will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed. We will only submit a DBS application to the relevant disclosure service when a position is accepted.
This 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 follow Safer Recruitment procedures and all interviews, regardless of role, will include questions about approaches to safeguarding. Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy is available on our website and follows all guidance in the most recent Keeping Children Safe in Education.
All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exception Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Please note that by submitting an application, you acknowledge that we reserve the right to view any publicly available information published online (including social media platforms) as part of our shortlisting process, in line with current KCSIE guidelines.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lavington School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and well-being of its students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this committment.
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.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Lavington School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 886 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lavington School website
Lavington School is a mixed comprehensive school and currently has 965 students on roll, aged 11 to 18. It is situated on the western edge of the village of Market Lavington, about six miles south of Devizes, in the heart of rural Wiltshire. Numbers on roll have grown over the years with the school being over-subscribed. In 2018 the school opened its Sixth Form as a satellite centre of Devizes School.
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