Selston High School

Welcome to Selston High School, a member of The Two Counties Trust

There are many reasons to choose our school, and the Trust, as a great place to start or develop your career. We recognise the importance of happy, rewarded, and motivated employees and as such we have developed our HR and Professional Learning strategies to invest in people.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within the school, externally, and across the Trust, offering extensive professional learning for all employees.

We have removed appraisal and appraisal related progression, recognising the limitations and changed the focus from proving to improving through professional growth which is focused on individual ambitions, enabling everyone to get a little bit better all the time.

We are committed to your welfare as an employee and alongside our own wellbeing and workload management arrangements we have signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. If you need additional support on a range of matters, an Employee Assistance Programme is available to you from day one of employment.

We offer highly competitive pay, including some points above national rate, an array of employee benefits including extensive high street retail discounts, gym membership and discounted healthcare.

There are an array of centralised systems which are designed to save you time and avoid duplication of effort, these are based on the work of experts across the Trust, meaning that your time can be focused where you need it to be.

We hope you will join us in a great environment where you can work with a team of dedicated and like-minded professionals.

Welcome from the Headteacher

Thank you for your interest in applying for a post at Selston High School. I am delighted that you wish to find out more about our school and in these few words I would like to share with you  sense of our compelling school culture school. school ethos and values. We pride ourselves on working hard to provide our students with opportunities and experiences to enhance their life choices, making a positive contribution to the world we share.

We are an 11-16 school with 900 students. We work hard with our local community and neighbouring schools to establish strong relationships that support high standards and expectations. For the last three years. the school has been oversubscribed.

We have 4 school values that are lived by students and staff; Ambition, Teamwork, Honesty and Respect. Our values and drivers provide us with a focus and enable us to aspire to achieve our aim; for every student to achieve their full potential and enjoy the experience of attending Selston High School.

All values are important to us; although the value of Respect has been long standing for our school and is deep rooted within the foundations of our historical building.

In 2025, Ofsted found that effective action had been taken to maintain the good standards identified in the previous inspection. Inspectors noted that "the school has high expectations for all pupils", "the school provides strong pastoral care for pupils" and "staff promote an environment where each pupil is inspired to achieve their full potential and enjoy the experience" There are positive relationships between staff and pupils. At Selston we work tirelessly to provide the very best education for our students in order that they leave school with the confidence and ambition to take their place in the world as productive citizens.

Selston High School is a fantastic place to work. Staff are hardworking, ambitious and friendly. We value strong professional relationships and are looking to recruit people with these qualities. We put people first and commit to providing high impact professional learning and an instructional coaching model.

Looking ahead, we strive to promote a passion for learning by delivering a high quality, knowledge rich curriculum. We are open and honest and are always looking to grow our provision through accurate reflection. We continue to invest in our building and facilities and look forward to sharing the next phase of our journey with you.

If you haven’t already, I would recommend that you visit the school to see for yourself what we are all about. I would be delighted to welcome you on site to see the school in action.

David Broomhead

The Two Counties Trust

With secondary schools across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, we are an ambitious Trust with a strong reputation. We have ten secondary schools, over 12,000 students and 1,600 employees.

We exist to provide our students with opportunities and experiences to enhance their life choices, making a positive contribution to the world we share. Collectively we serve our communities by educating and preparing our students for the next steps in their lives.

Leaders across the Trust are fully committed to striving for excellence in all that we do. We understand that families trust us each day with their most prized possession i.e. their child, and we all are here to serve the students in our care.

Our values are:

Ambition:   We maximise our potential through striving for excellence.

Teamwork: We give 100% effort, displaying kindness and humility for the benefit of all.

Honesty:    We are respectfully open about our successes and areas for growth.

To find out more about us, please go to www.ttct.co.uk.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Trust in the near future.

To find out more about the benefits of working for The Two Counties Trust and our ambitious strategic plan, follow the links below:

Employee Benefits Guide

Strategic Plan 2024 - 2027

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note that it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a children's barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates to identify incidents or issues that may have happened, and which are publicly available online, which we may need to explore with shortlisted candidates.

The school's child protection policy can be located at: www.Selston.ttct.co.uk/our-school/policies.

The Trust's policy on the employment of ex-offenders can be located at: www.ttct.co.uk/our-trust/policies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and as such we are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Candidates with a disability who meet the minimum job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.