Teacher of Science - KS Lead

The Canterbury Academy, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8QA

9 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  3 July 2026 at 11:12am

• Date listed

  24 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 32,916.00 - £51,048.00

Teacher of Science - KS Lead job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge?

Do you:

Love teaching and instilling students with a passion for achieving?

Want to be part of a department with excellent facilities?

Enjoy working within a strong and supportive team?

Wish to be part of an Academy Trust that believes and supports its staff?

If so then we would love to hear from you.

At The Canterbury Academy, we seek to appoint a Teacher of Science for our Science department and be part of a fantastic team. This role has a opportunity for additional Key Stage responsibility for the right candidate.

Our amazing students benefit from excellent facilities to learn in and you will be able to teach across all key stages.

Staff are supported by the friendly and passionate department that will offer excellent CPD and training opportunities to develop your subject knowledge.

We welcome applications from all industry experience levels, keen to take on their first position or an experienced teacher keen to take on ownership of a course with development opportunities in the future. There is also the potential to assume additional responsibilities for the right candidate.

We strive to ensure that our students have the best possible opportunities to achieve and that our staff feel valued and supported.

Please note that applications will be assessed upon receipt and interviews may take place before the closing date so please apply as soon as possible.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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

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

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

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About The Canterbury Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1984 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Canterbury Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-canterbury-academy

The Canterbury Academy creates ‘a wealth of opportunity’ and allows us to offer 'as much as possible, as often as possible, for as many as possible'. Our simple aim is to ‘improve the life chances of children and to help in the community’.

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