Teacher of Religious Studies
Woodchurch High School
Wirral
- New
- Salary:
- MPR/UPR
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 6 January 2025
Job overview
TEACHER OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES - MPR/UPR
REQUIRED FOR APRIL 2025
FIXED TERM CONTRACT - MATERNITY COVER
We are seeking to appoint an excellent classroom practitioner to teach across the whole ability and age range. This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly successful oversubscribed school. We are looking for an excellent and dynamic classroom practitioner to join a supportive and well-resourced RS Faculty. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate a love for RS and a commitment to making a difference to the lives of young people. They will also be able to demonstrate positive outcomes for all groups of pupils and have the ability to engage and enthuse learners.
Religious Studies has a high profile in the school and is studied by all pupils up to GCSE level.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ECT to establish themselves as a teacher or an experienced teacher looking to further their practice.
The fixed term contract will run from April 2025 to cover maternity leave. The end of the contract may change depending on our staffing need, or the maternity leave period being extended or reduced.
Woodchurch High School is an exciting place to work. It is a successful and oversubscribed 11 – 16 coeducational comprehensive. We enjoy state of the art facilities, designed to engage and motivate learners.
Further details and an application pack can be obtained from the school website. Application forms, together with a covering letter, should be returned to Mrs A Bestwick HR Officer. Email whsrecruitment@woodchurchhigh.com. We do not accept CVs and approaches from recruitment agencies. If you do not hear by 13th January, you may assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS check. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education general online searches will be undertaken for all shortlisted candidates. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All applicants will be considered on the basis of suitability for the post regardless of race, sex, age or disability.
Under data protection law, individuals have a right to be informed about how the school uses any personal data we hold about them. We comply with this right by providing access to ‘privacy notices’ to individuals where we are processing their personal data. This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about individuals applying for jobs at our school. Please access this notice via the following link: https://www.woodchurchhigh.com/docs/Policies/PrivacyNoticeJobApplicants-09-12-20.pdf
Closing Date: Monday 6th January - 9:00am
Attached documents
About Woodchurch High School
- Woodchurch High School
- Carr Bridge Road, Woodchurch, Wirral
- Merseyside
- CH49 7NG
- United Kingdom
Woodchurch High School is a very successful, over-subscribed co-educational Church of England Academy. There are over 1400 pupils on roll, who are supported by 114 teaching staff and over 120 support staff. The popularity of the school is attributable to a proven record of high standards in all aspects of school life including leadership and management, excellent examination results, a well ordered disciplined environment, excellent relationships within the school, and with parents / carers and the community.
Woodchurch High School is housed in a state of the art building, which opened 2010. It boasts excellent classroom accommodation as well as being equipped with the very latest ICT equipment. The school is surrounded by extensive playing fields with a purpose built Sports Centre, multi-use games areas, and a floodlit 3G pitch. The school provides a broad, balanced, relevant and meaningful curriculum for all pupils. The experienced, enthusiastic and well qualified staff ensure that the more able are challenged and the less able supported so that all our pupils have the opportunity to flourish. We have always emphasised the importance of school and parents / carers working together in partnership. We believe that commitment to this partnership is essential if each young person is to reach his or her full potential. The school is proud of its social inclusion policy and of gaining the North West and Greater Merseyside Inclusive Schools Award and the Wirral Inclusion Award, for our work in all aspects of social inclusion.
The school has also received numerous other awards for its excellent practices. Please see our website www.woodchurchhigh.com for more details
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