61 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2026

  • Closing date

    28 January 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    27 November 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

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Subject

Religious education

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (Actual)

Teacher of Religious Studies job summary

You will be joining a thriving Religious Studies Department working within a successful Humanities Faculty. The Religious Studies Department plays an important role in furthering the academic ethos of Southend High School for Girls and we are looking for somebody who will be able to inspire and engage our students to engage in rigorous and imaginative ways.

We offer Religious Studies at A Level and have multiple classes at GCSE. We are consistently one of the highest performing subjects within the school.

Results are testament to our diligent and hard-working students and staff and in 2025, 91% of grades achieved were A*-B at A Level.

Each year Religious Studies students go on to study Theology and Religion at university. In recent years the department has prepared students for courses at Oxford and King’s College London. We offer a variety of super curricular opportunities such as Subject Captains, theology based EPQs and whole school competitions.

Within the department, there will be significant scope for the successful candidate to develop Religious Studies at Southend High School for Girls to meet their own interests and areas of specialism.

The ability to teach Religious Studies at all key stages is essential.

The successful candidate should:

  • Be an inspirational classroom practitioner with an irresistible enthusiasm for their subject. As a reflective practitioner you will be constantly looking to develop your practice through collaboration, experimentation, and hard work.
  • Be a team player working closely with the Head of Department to develop the learning experiences for all our students.
  • Be creative and innovative constantly looking for new ways to challenge our high ability students.
  • Contribute to secure the highest standards of pupil achievement, monitoring, tracking, supporting, and evaluating pupil achievement. Set targets for improvement and implement effective strategies for underperforming students.

We can offer you:

  • Highly motivated, curious, and industrious students.
  • A strong, highly qualified staff team and an ethos of tolerance and respect with a family community spirit.
  • A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing.
  • An environment which promotes innovation.

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls’ grammar school rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey

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.
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Commitment to safeguarding

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Southend High School for Girls

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1253 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
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School website
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Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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