Teacher of Science & Learning Coach (0.8)
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls, Birmingham, West Midlands, B17 8QB19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st January 2026 or as soon as possible
Closing date
13 October 2025 at 8am
Date listed
24 September 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Part time: Permanent, Part-Time (0.8)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR2a pro-rata for 0.8 (FTE £3,527 pa)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an enthusiastic and committed Science specialist looking to make an impact on young people's lives?
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls is seeking to appoint someone who believes passionately about making a difference to the lives of every student and who does so with integrity, humility and relentless positivity.
The successful candidate will work as part of a strong team and will be willing to participate in all aspects of school life including support for extracurricular clubs, events and trips. The post is suitable for a current classroom teacher or for an Early Career Teacher.
Science is a popular subject at King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls. Our recently developed KS3 curriculum offers our pupils a broad, balanced and challenging curriculum that engages and prepares them to study either combined or triple science at GCSE. We also offer A Levels in all three sciences, taught by subject specialists, and we are proud that many of our pupils continue to study science related courses at university. We are a well resourced department, with five modern laboratories, a science workroom and a full time science technician.
We are looking for a teacher with infectious enthusiasm and excellent communication skills with an ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with students, colleagues and parents. Extracurricular opportunities are a key part of school life and the successful candidate will play a key role in providing opportunities for students beyond the classroom.
What the school offers its staff
In return we are offering the successful candidate the opportunity to work in a thriving community, composed of kind and respectful students who are dedicated to their learning and colleagues who are caring, compassionate and committed. Staff and students have extremely positive relationships underpinned by our school value of ‘respect’. We are a happy and caring school which values and takes pride in diversity and celebrates individuality.
If our vision and values match your own philosophy, we would welcome an application.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
King Edward VI Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Shortlisted candidates will have online checks undertaken before interview. Successful applicants be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, it is a criminal offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
KEVI is committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
Applying for the job
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About King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 968 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls website
- Email address
- pa@lsg.kevibham.org
The King Edward VI Foundation, Birmingham, is a progressive charitable organisation which has supported excellence in education across the City since 1552. Our schools are diverse in nature but have a common purpose and commitment to achieving our mission of “making Birmingham the best place to be educated in the UK”.
Our Academy Trust currently consists of two independent schools, six selective, and five non selective academies. Our recent expansion into a wider diversity of local communities is enabling us to accelerate our strategies for improving the life chances of young people in Birmingham, whatever their background.
The King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham (“the Academy Trust”) was established in 2017 and is made up of the academies outlined above. The academies receive back office central support services including governance, from the Foundation Office (a central support services function), with several staff being seconded from the Foundation to deliver support services to the Academy Trust and the academies themselves.
Our highly focused five-year strategy aims to build on our existing strengths and heritage and deliver our ambitious growth strategy which aims to bring in a further five academies over the next five years.
Arranging a visit to King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email pa@lsg.kevibham.org.
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