Teacher of Science
UTC South Durham, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, DL5 6APThis job expired on 28 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 March 2025 at 1:37pm
Date listed
28 March 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS - UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Preparing students to be Career and Life Ready for outstanding STEM careers. Can you lead our students to success?
University Technical College South Durham provides an innovative education for 14-19 year olds, encompassing real, relevant workplace experience in partnership with world-class companies. With a focus on STEM, particularly advanced manufacturing and engineering, it is located on Aycliffe Business Park, County Durham and is expanding rapidly.
The UTC was rated Good by Ofsted in 2024 and has developed a reputation and track record of outstanding destinations for our students. It has a single focus – to help young people become career and life ready.
Science is a vital part of our offer. We are looking to appoint an outstanding Science teacher to join our teaching team. The chance to work in an innovative education establishment is rare and this is an exciting opportunity to join us as we continue to expand and develop; designing and delivering high quality learning experiences for our students. As a key member of the UTC team you will help shape our KS4 and KS5 curricula, set high expectations and inspire our students through making the subject engaging and relevant. You’ll also build positive relationships with students, staff and parents and you’ll be able to demonstrate successful outcomes for your students at GCSE and A Level.
Our sponsors, Hitachi Rail, Gestamp Tallent and the University of Sunderland, are committed to creating an outstanding school that will provide a talented young workforce for companies in the North of England. If you have the expertise and commitment to make a life-changing impact on our students then we would like to hear from you.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
What the school offers its staff
Staff – Principles and Expectations
All staff of the UTC are expected to:
- Model only the highest of standards in relation to work ethic, behaviour, dress code and conduct.
- Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, promoting the vision and values of the UTC.
- Enable a climate that engenders personal growth and success for all staff and students.
- Commit to the provision of a curriculum which enables real workplace experiences and the opportunity to engage in employer-led and industry-sponsored projects.
- Demonstrate and develop in students the Student Leaver Profile.
- Positively promote the belief that all young people can achieve beyond national expectations given their starting points and that all, without exception, will progress to university, employment and/or training.
- Commit unconditionally to ensuring that all groups of students, irrespective of their starting points will thrive, eradicating any notion of ‘gaps’ in performance or ‘labelling’ between groups.
- Be flexible in the way they work to meet the needs of the UTC students.
Terms and Conditions
For clarity of understanding and expectations, the main UTC staff policies, terms and conditions are based on nationally-recognised policies, terms and conditions that have been adapted to make them relevant to the operation of the UTC, with the differences made explicit. The key differences are:
- We have created a different learning climate for students and this means a different way of working for staff.
- Main-scale teachers will prepare and deliver a ‘standard’ teaching load of 23 subject lessons a week, plus enrichment and support time. This will be adjusted appropriately for those with leadership responsibilities, ECT and part-time staff.
- Staff will be required to be on site for the full UTC day – they are longer days than most schools.
- We follow Durham LA’s term dates. Six training days are built into the school year along and staff are expected to work the equivalent of two additional days a year. This is taken in the form of events for student recruitment. Flexibility is assumed in this approach to allow for individual needs and appropriate notice will be given of the events. Department time is given on a Wednesday afternoon and the Friday of every half term is committed to CPD with students working from home.
- Staff are expected to attend businesses on visits with students as appropriate.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About UTC South Durham
- School type
- Free School, ages 14 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 419 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 14 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- UTC South Durham website
- Email address
- jobs@utcsouthdurham.org
- Phone number
- 01325430250
School location
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