19 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

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

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

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

This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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

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
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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