Temporary Media Studies Teacher

Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  5 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Media studies
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE)

Temporary Media Studies Teacher job summary

We are seeking a qualified Media Studies teacher to join our successful Media Studies department for a short-term position to cover a temporary absence. The role will mainly involve teaching A Level and particularly the OCR specification. We’ll provide clear guidance on the content to be covered, and our outstanding department will offer additional support.

Temporary Media Studies Teacher

FTE 0.4 (Monday - Wednesday)

Commencing January 2026

The successful candidate should:

• Have experience of teaching Media Studies, ideally to A Level
• Be a strong classroom practitioner with an enthusiasm for their subject
• Be a team player working closely with the Director of Faculty, and joint Head of Media Studies, to support classes during their regular teacher’s absence

We can offer you:

Clear guidance of the content to be covered, with additional support from department members and the wider faculty

Highly motivated, curious, and industrious students

A strong, highly qualified staff team and an ethos of tolerance and respect with a family community spirit.

A Media Studies department with an incredible record of success, including over 63% of A Level students receiving A*-A grades last year, and 100% of students receiving A*-B grades

A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girl’s grammar school rated

‘outstanding’ by Ofsted

We reserve the right to call applicants to interview, and appoint, prior to the closing date

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. This is a customer-facing role needing fluent spoken English

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

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Southend High School for Girls

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1253 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Southend High School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southend-high-school-for-girls

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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