Teacher of Sociology - Highdown School
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre, Reading, Berkshire, RG4 8LRThis job expired on 7 April 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
7 April 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 March 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Sociology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,000 to £41,333 Per year
What skills and experience we're looking for
Main Scale, Full time. Required for September 2024
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 28 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
We are seeking to appoint a well-qualified, innovative and enthusiastic Teacher of Sociology to join an established Humanities team in a well-resourced, successful department. Government & Politics is taught at A-level and is a popular subject. Sociology is also taught within the department.
You should be a highly motivated and successful practitioner who is willing to contribute to all aspects of the school vision and the many enrichment activities that the department offers. We welcome applications from ECTs.
Why Highdown School?
• We are a Good School with many outstanding features which continues to rapidly improve
• We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
• We provide highly regarded ECT induction and Coaching for Excellence programmes
• We have adopted a ‘Fair Workload Charter’
• Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities
• We are able to offer on-site accommodation for ECTs with competitive rent
What the school offers its staff
For details and an application form visit our website: www.highdown.reading.sch.uk
Please return your completed application form to Miss Nicci Burns, Headteacher’s PA, by email on hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Closing date: Applications will be considered on receipt
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
We are also trained in safer recruitment and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, ‘Prohibition from Teaching’ check and pre-interview online search.
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.
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About Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1575 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown was awarded academy status in 2010 and was judged to be a good school by Ofsted in April 2015.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a thriving school where all students are challenged to reach excellence every day.
Our most important resource is our staff. Therefore, we aim to create the conditions and culture within the academy that make Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre a rewarding place to work. We are committed to investing in staff professional learning and leadership development, taking action to rationalise workload, promote mental and physical health and wellbeing, and encourage collaboration and peer support.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, teaching and support staff (including temporary and supply staff), governors and volunteers to share this commitment.
Arranging a visit to Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk.
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