Teacher of Science

Birkenhead Park School, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH43 4UY

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2025

• Closing date

  14 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  30 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Science
• Working pattern: Full time: Standard teacher contract 1.0FTE.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS / UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for an outstanding Science practitioner with great passion and drive to join our ambitious and supportive team! You will be a champion of the subject, with keen subject expertise and a resolute determination to inspire a love of Science across the school. We need a strong team player, who is proactive and driven to succeed. We always seek enthusiastic and adaptable individuals with excellent professional standards and good communication skills.

You will need to be educated to degree standard or equivalent in a relevant field to subject teaching.

What the school offers its staff

This is an exciting opportunity because we believe in ensuring all students engage with the curriculum and are able to achieve beyond their own expectations. Your passion and talent will combine with cutting edge approaches to teaching to foster confidence and enthusiasm in our students, helping them overcome any barriers to learning.

This is a position that will offer you a platform to make a real difference both to the students you will inspire. You will be joining our ambitious and innovative team with a strong commitment to providing high quality learning opportunities. We are a school that invests in all its staff through subject specific CPD and places great emphasis on its own programme of professional growth.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Birkenhead Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Successful applicants will be subject
to an enhanced DBS check. Applications will only be considered when submitted on a fully completed application form. All applicants
will be considered on the basis of suitability for the post regardless of age, sex, race or disability.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to cga@birkenheadparkschool.com

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Birkenhead Park School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 746 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Birkenhead Park School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: cga@birkenheadparkschool.com
• Phone number: 0151 652 1574
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/birkenhead-park-school (opens in new tab)

The Birkenhead Park School is a co-educational secondary school for children aged 11-16 and has over 700 students on roll. It is an exciting time to join us as we are on an ambitious journey of transformation and are looking for staff who are motivated to make a real make a difference to the community we serve.

The school is very proud of its caring commitment and innovative approach to educating the community of young people in the area, with award-winning programmes designed to help students in Year 7 – 11 thrive in a high school environment and open pathways to their future.

As part of the BePART Educational Trust established by nationally leading sixth form, Birkenhead Sixth Form College, the school encourages students to raise aspirations and unlock their true potential through adopting the school values which are intrinsic to everything we do, across all staff and students – Positivity, Ambition, Resilience and Thoughtfulness. Our values shape every interaction with have and are core to our success in nurturing both academic and personal success for every student.

We have recently been awarded a Silver Award by the Teacher Development Trust Network. This follows being awarded a Runner-Up prize in Educate North Awards’ Innovative and Creative Literacy accolade, acknowledging the school-wide Literacy Programme that has proven to have a significant effect in raising students’ reading ages and all-round academic ability.

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