Computer Science Teacher
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Westminster School
Westminster
- New
- Salary:
- Competitive salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 6 October 2024
Job overview
We are looking for a committed and enthusiastic full-time or part-time subject specialist to join the Computer Science Department at Westminster School for two-terms.
The successful candidate will be required to teach Computer Science from Year 9 to Year 11, with a strong emphasis on programming and computational thinking. There will be opportunities to participate in extracurricular subject activities including the robotics groups and competition entries, as well as in mentoring, inspiring and supervising individual student projects.
The successful candidate must have a good knowledge and understanding of Python and will be able to clearly explain computational ideas and logic. Previous teaching experience of a Computer Science GCSE course is essential, along with the ability to communicate ideas and successfully support learning.
About the school
Westminster is one of the UK’s leading academic institutions and is the only ancient London school to occupy its original site. Situated close to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, the school has a special atmosphere.
We offer a variety of benefits, including:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and discretionary Christmas stand-down period. Leave should be taken when convenient with the workload and deadlines
- Pension – contributory defined contribution scheme
- Free school lunch is provided
- Use of school gym (restricted hours)
- Private medical cover (opt-in)
For further information and to apply, please click the apply button.
For this role, there is no fixed closing date. Applications will be considered on receipt and interviews may occur at any stage.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.
The school is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is the perfect environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. It is important also that pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led Societies take place every week at the School and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in the local community, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to nurture each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.’
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