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Lead Practitioner of Science (£5000 Recruitment Allowance)
Shuttleworth College
Lancashire
- £31,650 - £49,084 per year
- New
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- MPR1 - UPR3 plus TLR 2.3 at £7902 (£5000 Recruitment Allowance)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Flexible Easter or September 2025
- Apply by:
- 3 January 2025
Job overview
At Shuttleworth College our students are at the centre of everything we do. Our driving purpose is to ensure that they enjoy their time at school with us and achieve their potential. This is an exciting position for a hardworking, creative and researched professional who loves identifying and removing barriers and therefore making a difference.
We can offer:
• Centralised behaviour systems
• Generous PPA time
• Excellent guidance from experienced, committed subject leaders
• Modern facilities
• Access to private healthcare and wellbeing services
• Easy access from the M65
• A visible and approachable senior leadership team and an enthusiastic and committed team of teachers and support staff.
We are seeking:
• An outstanding science practitioner with a proven track record of teaching excellence
• Applications from experiences teachers who are passionate about science and are dedicated to enabling students to make excellent
• A passionate teacher eager to support the wider STEM curriculum
Shuttleworth College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and the appointment will be conditional upon DBS enhanced clearance.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This means that you must declare all spent and unspent cautions and convictions (except those that are protected). These declarations are compulsory to ensure that we are complying with our statutory safeguarding obligations.
To view our full safeguarding policy please visit www.shuttleworthcollege.org.
Attached documents
About Shuttleworth College
Shuttleworth College is a mixed, mainstream secondary school in Padiham, near Burnley in Lancashire. It caters to students aged 11 to 16 and has approximately 1,111 pupils enrolled.
Shuttleworth College was founded in September 2006 from the merger of Gawthorpe High School and Habergham High Sixth Form. It was provided with a brand-new facilities under the Building Schools for the Future programme. The school now boasts a restaurant-style kitchen, dance studio, sports hall, fitness room, tennis courts and all-weather sports pitches.
Headteacher
Ruth England
Vision and values
Shuttleworth College’s motto is "Think big. Chase dreams. Succeed together". Its main aim is to ensure every student has an enjoyable and well-rounded education that will allow them to safeguard their future. The secondary school believes creating a supportive learning community is key and it promotes resilience, perseverance and pride as values to uphold.
Shuttleworth College favours the traditional disciplines of English, maths and science. Much of the curriculum centres on these subjects as the school believe this makes the movement to the next phase of education more seamless. Teachers provide a varied education for their students and a wide range of extra-curricular activities is on offer, including a yearly musical.
Ofsted report
“The headteacher, and leaders at all levels, have successfully created a culture of higher expectations of staff and pupils and there is a determination to improve pupils’ life chances. The motto: ‘Think big. Chase dreams. Succeed together’ permeates leaders’ decisions and actions.”
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