Teacher of Social Sciences
The Bishop of Winchester Academy, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PWThis job expired on 21 April 2025
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
21 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Social Sciences
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Mainscale / UPS
Teacher of Social Sciences job summary
Are you looking to develop your career in a thriving, friendly and supportive standalone academy where staff welfare is a priority? Are you passionate about your students and committed to unlocking their potential in an academy that has high expectations of everyone?
We are seeking someone with a passion for social sciences, including health & social care and child development, to progress this department, equipping students with a love of the subject and lifelong knowledge to think professionally and prepare for real-life scenarios.
This is an exciting opportunity for either an established teacher or an ECT to inspire the next generation of students to excel in Social Sciences and achieve the highest standards of progress. Whatever your career stage you will be supported by an innovative and forward-thinking team to develop further business knowledge and enhance your teaching tool kit so that our students feel inspired and invested in achieving. We welcome applications from all teachers including ECTs. So, whether you are looking to reinvigorate your engagement with the profession, or you are new to teaching and want to develop your talent, this is the ideal role and environment for you.
As a standalone academy, we believe in our teachers being able to do the role they are employed to do, which is to deliver engaging lessons to our students. We therefore have an easy and structured behaviour system for our students and you to follow in lessons. After this, we have dedicated teams who intervene and leave you to continue with the job you love doing!
Our Head of Social Science would be delighted to take you on a tour of the school and answer any questions you may have.
As Teacher of Social Science, you will be welcomed into an experienced team of professionals to:
- Progress the Social Science department to even greater successes
- Plan and deliver high quality and engaging lessons, that will challenge and inspire our students and will include health & social care and child development
- Encourage students to have high expectations of themselves and their behaviour
- Engage students in study at GCSE Level (A-Level is desirable)
- Be a positive role model and supportive mentor to students, making a lasting impact on their live
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, recently recognised by Ofsted as prioritising ‘wider opportunities alongside achievement so that pupils “live life to the full.”’ (Ofsted 2023). Operating from recently refurbished facilities, our shared mission to improve the life chances of all of our students is at the very centre of our work.
We put the welfare of our staff at the heart of everything we do and can offer you:
- Generous employer pension contribution at 28.6% basic salary from April 2024
- Early Friday finish at 1:00pm
- Supportive and practical marking policy
- Career development with a bespoke CPD programme
- Excellent newly refurbished teaching facilities with free onsite parking and good local public transport links
- Employee Assistance Programme and Cycle to Work scheme
- Close proximity to beaches and the Jurassic Coast to assist your work life balance
To apply for this Teacher of Social Science role, please visit the vacancies section of our website to complete an application form: https://www.tbowa.org/staff/vacancies/teaching-staff. Please email completed application forms to recruitment@tbowa.org, addressing your covering letter to Mr Paul McKeown, Principal.
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
Please be aware that due to the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ legislation we do not accept CVs.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we have received applications that meet the criteria.
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.
About The Bishop of Winchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1148 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Bishop of Winchester Academy website
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, commended by Ofsted for its ‘inclusive approach, which seeks to support all pupils’. Led by a dedicated team with ‘strong moral and ethical foundation[s]’, our shared mission for ‘improving the life chances of all [our] pupils is at the very centre of [our] work’ (Ofsted, 2017).
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