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Teacher of Science

Uxbridge High School, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 2PR

This job expired on 17 March 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  17 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  13 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.50 hours a week, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS Outer London

What skills and experience we're looking for

The role:

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our dynamic and progressive Science department. Whether you are an Early Career Teacher (ECT) eager to make your mark, or an experienced educator looking for a new challenge, we welcome your application to become part of our supportive and innovative team.

What we’re looking for:

• A teacher who leads by example, without standing classroom practice and professionalism.
• A passion for placing students at the heart of the curriculum, ensuring their learning is meaningful and engaging.
• A teacher driven to make a difference, committed to overcoming barriers and enabling every student to achieve exceptional progress.
• A team player dedicated to personal development and working collaboratively with colleagues.

Join a school that is committed to the PROUD TO MAKE SUCCESS HAPPEN, values of positivity respect, open mindedness, uniqueness and determination. We believe that success can only come through a close partnership between dedicated staff, confident students, supportive parents and a committed Board of Trustees.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.

What the school offers its staff

What we are offering:

• Early finish on Fridays(our students are dismissed at 1.00 pm)
• We support flexible working:16% of our staff work flexibly (including 9% of teaching workforce and 37% of associate staff).
• We support the work life balance and have family friendly policies: we give our staff three paid days of special leave for medical appointments and three paid days for childcare/emergency leave.
• We offer private health care which includes: 24/7 GP and mental health helplines, medical diagnosis and treatment, physiotherapy, cancer support, social care advice and wellbeing hub, rewards and benefits.
• July start for Early Careers Teachers, paid induction for new starters, paid duties, interest free travel loans, interest free loan for ECTs (up to £1500), financial support for higher and further education.
• Staff events: Christmas lunch and end of year event, sport Fridays.
• Staff wellbeing: staff wellbeing group, early finish on Fridays before the winter and spring breaks, yoga sessions on site, running club, five annual INSET days to deliver exceptional CPD with TOIL days for twilight INSET which gives staff longer Christmas and Easter holidays, wellbeing is our appraisal target, additional Occasional Day off in Autumn.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment.
Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Applicant Pack - Science Teacher.pdf - 2.05 MB (opens in new tab)

About Uxbridge High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1358 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Uxbridge High School website
• Email address: recruitment@uhs.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/uxbridge-high-school-uxbridge

Uxbridge High School is an ambitious and dynamic converter academy with over 1,200 students aged 11 -18.
We have much to celebrate at Uxbridge High School including a committed and focused staff, outstanding facilities, strong relationships with the community and school partners, supportive Governors and a thriving Sixth Form.

We are delighted to be recognised by Alps in the top 20% of UK schools, celebrating outstanding Sixth Form student progress at A-level. We value the successes of every child, whatever their starting point. All of this takes place within a truly comprehensive and multicultural school that reflects life in modern Britain.

Our school values have been developed by students and staff, and form the basis of our ethos and culture.

All members of our school community subscribe and work towards always being: Positive, Respectful, Open-Minded, Unique, Determined: PROUD to Make Success Happen.

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