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Teaching Fellow (Pastoral Leader)

Mercia School, Sheffield, S7 2DY

This job expired on 18 May 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  18 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  28 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £37,035 to £40,476
• Pay scale: Grade 7

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Graduate with at least a 2:1 degree
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Well-developed written and oral skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills
• Good organisational and time management skills
• The ability to maintain effective record keeping
• The ability to deal with sensitive information in a confidential manner
• The ability to work positively with parents/carers, supporting them whilst insisting upon school rules and the school's culture.
• Working as part of a team
• Communication across different organisations/groups
• Strong moral purpose and drive for improvement
• Flexible
• Honest and reliable
• Calm under pressure
• Sense of humour and perspective
• Patient
• Team player
• High personal and professional standards
• Strong attention to detail
• Aligned to values of our trust and schools

What the school offers its staff

Reasons to join Mercia School:

• Outstanding School - Mercia is one of a small number of schools that is graded as outstanding. You will have access to sector-leading practice
• Team - You will join an ambitious, talented and positive team of leaders and staff.
• Support - Leaders and teachers have fantastic initial and on-going support to fulfil their roles. Senior Leaders work hard to support teachers and ensure their time is protected.
• Exceptional behaviour - Pupils at Mercia behave impeccably. We believe teachers should be able to teach and pupils should have an appetite to learn. Our centralised and consistent behaviour systems improve wellbeing for all.
• Workload - We remove all unnecessary tasks that take time away from supporting pupil learning. We have reduced data and administration tasks. Teachers have lower contact ratios compared to most schools, so they have more time to prepare great lessons. Teacher time is focussed on teaching and supporting pupils throughout the day.
• Time - We have a longer school day which is designed to support pupils and staff. Within this time all pupils receive great lessons, access a full enrichment programme and undertake homework in assisted 'self -study
• Professional Development - All staff receive an exceptional induction, and consistent on-going support and CPD. You will work alongside exceptional colleagues.
• High retention - Staff retention is high as staff are happy and proud of their school. They have a good work life balance and have a sense of belonging. We are all driven and motivated by our mission.
• Family Dining - Family dining is special. We all eat together as a family and collectively show gratitude to our community. Teachers are catered for free of charge.
• Enrichment - Teachers teach and lead pupils in their areas of interest or expertise outside of the 'normal' curriculum. Teachers offer sport, STEM, music, drama, the arts and much more. Strong relationships are built and forged in these moments.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Mercia School Recruitment Information Booklet_compressed.pdf - 3.1 MB (opens in new tab)

Mercia Teaching Fellow April 2025.pdf - 288 KB (opens in new tab)

About Mercia School

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1070 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Mercia School website
• Email address: recruitment@merciatrust.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/mercia-school

Mercia School (11-18+) opened in September 2018 and has grown incrementally each year since then. We now have pupils in years 7-13, have published exceptional GCSE results in 2023 and 2024, and we opened our Collegiate Sixth Form in September 2023.


We are a traditional school, and aspects of our approach and practice are like other highly effective schools across the country. We have a strong reputation for educational excellence and have been the most oversubscribed school in the city for the last four years. In February 2023 Ofsted inspected the school and graded all aspects of provision and overall effectiveness to be outstanding.  Our aim is to provide all pupils, no matter what their background or starting point, with a rich, coherent, and demanding education, facilitated by a longer school day.


This ultimately equips and inspires them to progress to university or a high-quality alternative. We care about every pupil and want the absolute best for them.


Our school is a warm and welcoming place where all pupils feel happy and safe and can flourish. Staff are free to teach without distraction and deliver exceptional lessons, and leaders focus persistently on what matters.


We wish to recruit, develop, and retain the best staff, and we have a strong commitment to reducing the workload for teachers.

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