Teacher of Science - Physics or Chemistry Specialist and Potential for Subject Coordinator Role

Europa School UK, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DZ

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  30 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  10 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Science
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £52,475.00 Annually (FTE)

Teacher of Science - Physics or Chemistry Specialist and Potential for Subject Coordinator Role job summary

Europa School UK is looking for a positive, passionate, and motivated Teacher of Science to join our team. This full-time role offers a salary on the Main pay scale 1 to Upper pay scale 3.

About the Role:

We seek a candidate who can teach Physics to Year 11 (IB MYP Curriculum) and either Chemistry or Physics to the IB Diploma Programme level, as well as deliver a practical-oriented integrated science curriculum for Years 7-9. The successful candidate will inspire and motivate students to achieve their highest potential.

Potential for Subject Coordinator Role:

For the right candidate, there is an opportunity to take on a coordination role. This includes responsibilities such as managing health and safety in the science department, chairing departmental meetings, and developing partnerships with other local schools in STEM.

Why Join Europa School UK?

Europa builds flexibility into roles, blocks PPA, and believes that staff have a life beyond school. Our supportive environment ensures that staff feel valued and empowered.

Qualifications:

• Essential: Teaching qualification, university degree in a related subject.

• Desirable: Experience with IB MYP and/or DP.

• Skills: Excellent communication, motivational, and ICT skills; strong knowledge of varied pedagogical practices and the ability to inspire critical thinking in students.

Personal Attributes:

• Enthusiastic, collaborative, and caring attitude.

• Resilience, creativity, flexibility, and inventiveness.

• Humour, warmth, and energy.

Commitment to safeguarding

Europa School UK is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring) check.
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About Europa School UK

• School type: Free School, ages 4 to 19
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 1072 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Europa School UK website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/europa-school-uk

Europa School UK a UK state school offering a bilingual education from four to 18 culminating in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.

September 2017 saw ESUK open the Secondary School, the final stage of a phased opening which began in 2012 with key stage 1. We offer a multilingual and multicultural education, with primary children taught in English and also either German, French or Spanish via full immersion and humanities taught in the second language throughout the secondary phase. Other than language our emphasis is on science, well suited to the employment opportunities in Oxfordshire. Europa School inherits from its European School predecessor a history of preparing students for outstanding success at universities in the UK, throughout Europe and beyond.

The primary has three form entry and is consistently oversubscribed. We received a good rating from Ofsted.

The centrepiece of the Secondary School is the beautiful grade-II listed buildings of Culham College which has hosted a European School since 1978 and is in the process of receiving a multimillion pound facelift. The school is set in rural Oxfordshire but near Oxford and Abingdon. There is onsite parking and good cycle access.

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