20 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    28 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    4 April 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

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Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subject

Science

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Role:Teacher of Science

Contract:Permanent

Hours:1.0 FTE

Salary:MPS/UPS

Closing Date:28th March 2025 at 12pm Midday

The Boswells School is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and dedicated teacher of Science. We are looking for the successful candidate to deliver high quality lessons to complement an already strong provision within our Science Faculty.It is essential that thesuccessful candidate is able to teach at least one of Biology, Chemistry or Physics to GCSE level. For a suitably qualified candidate, there may also be an opportunity to teach at A-level.

This position offers an excellent opportunity for an ECT or an experienced teacher in a Faculty full of experience and expertise. You will be joining a school with enthusiastic and dedicated leaders at senior and middle leadership levels and a commitment to the professional development and well-being of staff. The Boswells School is keen to embrace an approach that is centred on teaching and learning and the academic attainment for our students.

The Boswells School is an 11-18, very successful, popular and oversubscribed school in the Springfield area of Chelmsford, Essex. We have a track record of outstanding academic success. This is an excellent opportunity to join a high achieving, successful and popular school.

Contact us:

For more information about the school, please visitwww.boswells-school.comor contact Maria Williams onmho@boswells-school.comor phone 01245264451.

Whilst there is a published closing date for this vacancy, we reserve the right to close the advert early if we receive sufficient applications. Early applications are therefore strongly encouraged.

The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed within its schools to:

  • Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual and cultural development of children and young people;
  • Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
  • The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.

As an equal opportunities employer, The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join The Chelmsford Learning Partnership.

In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted.  This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references. In line with recommended practice the school will conduct searches for information on shortlisted candidates which is publicly available on-line. The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is an equal opportunities employer.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

  • The opportunity to be part of a highly supportive and ambitious school
  • A commitment to a personalised progamme of CPD
  • Opportunity to collaborate across Trust schools
  • Access to a 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme
  • Flexible and family friendly policies and we are open to discussing flexible working arrangements at the point of hire.
  • Benefits platform which offers valuable discounts
  • Access to the Teachers Pension Scheme
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Tech Scheme
  • 24/7 GP

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

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About The Boswells School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1440 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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The Boswells School is an 11-18, very successful, popular and oversubscribed school in the Springfield area of Chelmsford, Essex.

We are an exciting, dynamic and forward thinking school community whose sole focus is the success of each of our students. We are extremely proud of our academic success and have a deserved reputation as an excellent school. Our innovative approaches to teaching and learning ensure that more students than ever are achieving high levels of academic success.

We are extremely proud of the achievements of our students. 2019 was another superb year for The Boswells School with our GCSE and A Level results making us one of the highest performing non-selective secondary schools in Essex. In 2019, 55% of our A Level students achieved A* to B grades, 88% of our A Level students achieved A* to C grades, 83% of our GCSE students achieved a Good pass (Grade 4+) in Eniglish and 71% of our GCSE students achieved a Good pass (Grade 4+) in Maths.

The percentage of students who achieved the expected levels of progress in English and Mathematics was significantly above the national average as was the percentage of students who achieved more than expected progress in these areas.

Arranging a visit to The Boswells School

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