Teacher of Sociology
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College, Barking, Essex, IG11 9AG33 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
10 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
5 February 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Social Sciences, Sociology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Teacher of Sociology job summary
Teacher of Sociology
Full Time
Commencing: September 2025
Salary Scale: MPS/UPS
Do you want to join a highly successful, popular, well-resourced and well led department?
Are you prepared to work hard with exceptional young people and staff committed to going the extra mile?
We are seeking to appoint a talented and well qualified Teacher to join our specialist team teaching at KS4 and KS5. The ability to teach Key Stage 5 Psychology is favourable.
We are looking for a colleague who will be:
Passionate about teaching Sociology and have the drive and ambition to complement the department.
Highly motivated and enthusiastic with a strong pedagogical background and a passion for sharing this with the students and the department.
An inspirational teacher, setting high standards for pupils, having the highest expectations for the success of all our pupils.
A role model for our pupils in line with the school’s vision and ethos.
A creative teacher willing to take on new challenges and make the most of all resources at our disposal and make a contribution to the wider life of the school.
This is a full-time position teaching GCSE and A level students. The position will provide an opportunity to be innovative, working closely with other members of a very successful curriculum area.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a track record of strong results at GCSE, experience of school clubs and the willingness to go above and beyond for our pupils.
The hours will be long but the reward will be the chance to work with and help shape our amazing students. They are overwhelmingly polite, respectful, considerate and have a fantastic thirst for learning. They uphold our school motto each and every day and they in return need the very best.
In return we can offer:
A student-centred, progress focused student ethos.
A welcoming and supportive community.
The opportunity to work with a passionate, hardworking and supportive staff.
A commitment to develop your skills through continued professional development.
A supportive and committed Leadership Team and Governing Body.
Barking Abbey is an Ofsted Outstanding heavily over-subscribed dual campus secondary school in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, with a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence and a supportive professional environment.
The school is located less than 10 minutes walk from Upney tube and 15 minutes from Barking mainline station.
Barking Abbey celebrates its diversity, and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you are interested in making a difference in young people’s lives whatever your background or history please apply.
We are proud that Ofsted recently judged the school to be Outstanding in all areas. The report states; “This is a large and diverse school where difference is valued. Pupils, and students in the sixth form, are supportive and respectful of each other. Pupils’ conduct is exemplary, both inside lessons and around the school. Leaders have established simple and clear rules that everyone understands. Pupils are focused, engaged and participate well in lessons. Staff feel that their workload and well-being has been carefully considered by leaders. They appreciate their open-door policy”. (Ofsted, February 2024)
Please click here to find out more information about what it is like to work at Barking Abbey: https://www.barkingabbeyschool.co.uk/home/join-us/staff-vacancies/
Barking Abbey is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process, including Disclosure check, will be undertaken on all successful applicants.
Online searches may be conducted for all shortlisted candidates and will be conducted for all successful candidates as part of our due diligence checks.
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2323 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
Welcome to Barking Abbey school and thank you for expressing an interest in applying for a position here.
For me there are three simple things that I want us to achieve at Barking Abbey school.
First, our motto ‘Give and Expect the best’ leads us to want to be the best in everything we do. We have some of the best results in the area, we have pupils at the best universities, we have the most pupils on apprenticeships in the entire country, we have basketball players in the best leagues and so much more. We have all of this because we push our pupils and each other to excel. All of us try to be our best every day.
Second, I firmly believe that if you can’t see it you can’t be it. We want to give our pupils the chance to see successful people of every religion, colour and background whilst they are at school. Whatever their dreams
we want to support them and provide the networks and contacts to help them to achieve.
Finally, we want our pupils to have a voice in the world. To be confident enough to express their views and also to have the knowledge to be able to make an effective contribution. The more you know the more
powerful you can be in the world.
Sir Tim Brighouse said “If a teacher makes the weather the school creates the climate.” and I firmly believe this. It is our role as a leadership team to create the best possible learning environment for our teachers
to teach in. In return we expect the best possible teaching from them and our results show this over time.
If you share our ethos and values and absolutely believe in the potential of all young people then we can offer you the chance to make a difference and change our community for the better, and look forward to receiving
your application form and welcoming you to our school.
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