Teacher of Religious Education

St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 6AE

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2024

• Closing date

  9 October 2023 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  18 September 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: No, visa sponsorship not available
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: Religious education
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - 32.5 hours
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Required for January 2024, the Governors of this high achieving, oversubscribed Catholic Voluntary Academy seek to appoint an inspiring, enthusiastic, motivated and well qualified graduate teacher to teach Religious Education. ECT’s and trainee teachers are welcome to apply.

Religious Education is central to the life of the school and is taught across all key stages and ability ranges. The Catholic ethos of the school is very important and is supported by all staff, feeder primary schools and local parishes.

This appointment provides the opportunity to teach well-motivated, hard-working pupils. You will join a forward-thinking and high-achieving department and be committed to delivering genuinely imaginative, engaging and varied lessons. This is an opportunity to take the subject in a new and exciting direction.

We are looking for an outstanding and proactive Religious Education Teacher, committed to high standards and expected to teach RE at key stages 3 and 4, with the ability to teach RE at A level. As a committed team player, you will have excellent organisational skills and the natural ability to motivate pupils with a passion for making a difference to the lives of young people.

What the school offers its staff

• Employee discount scheme (offering cycle to work scheme, gym membership, money saving offers across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers, home and electrical items).
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (Education Support).
• On-site parking and access to canteen.
• Teacher Pension Scheme.
• A supportive organisation with the commitment to professional development and wellbeing.

Further details about the role

St. Mary’s is a popular and highly successful school situated on the North West fringe of Leeds, close to the Yorkshire Dales. The school is part of the Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust which consists of two high schools and 11 primary schools. The November 2014 Ofsted inspection and the June 2019 Section 48 inspection both judged St Mary’s as an outstanding school.

Further details and a Catholic Education Service Teacher application form are available via the Trust website in the General Information & Forms section www.bishopwheelercatholicacademytrust.org/vacancies/ or the school website www.stmarysmenston.org in the vacancies section. Please email your completed application to recruitment@bwcat.org addressed to the Headteacher by the closing date.

Commitment to safeguarding

St Mary’s is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of all children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In line with KCSiE 2022, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any matters that are publicly available online, which we might want to explore with you at interview.

Applying for the job

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@bwcat.org

Skilled worker visa sponsorship is not available for this job.

Upload additional documents

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Class Teacher Job Description v2.pdf - 120 KB (opens in new tab)

Class Teacher person specification RE v2.pdf - 103 KB (opens in new tab)

About St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1228 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@bwcat.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-mary-s-menston-a-catholic-voluntary-academy (opens in new tab)

St. Mary’s is a popular and highly successful school situated on the North West fringe of Leeds, close to the Yorkshire Dales. The school is part of the Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust which consists of the high school and 9 primary schools. The November 2014 Ofsted inspection judged St Mary’s as an outstanding school. We became a Teaching School in October 2015 and a National Support School in September 2017.

Arranging a visit to St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy

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