Teacher of Computing
Rickmansworth School
Hertfordshire
- £26,841 - £42,780 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS incl Fringe
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 1 July 2022
Job overview
TEACHER OF COMPUTING
Salary: MPS/UPS incl Fringe
Full time, Permanent
Required for September 2022
Rickmansworth School is an 11-18 heavily oversubscribed co-educational partially (35%) selective academy with 1455 students on roll, increasing to around 1575 students over the next five years.
Academic results are strong at KS4 and KS5 with the vast majority of students securing their first choice university destinations.
The School is in a very strong, stable financial position with over £6M recently spent on school expansion including a new Sixth-form centre, performing arts theatres and an Innovation & Design Centre. The School is also supported extremely well by a fantastic PTA and Foundation. Our outstanding staff well-being programme includes fortnightly well-being periods, access to our fitness suite and swimming pool, flu vaccinations and complimentary eye tests. The School’s admissions criteria gives preference to staff members’ children.
Our students enjoy learning and are an absolute pleasure to teach. We believe every child deserves the best and we aim to achieve excellence in all aspects of school life.
About the Department:
The candidate appointed will join a friendly, welcoming and well-organised department in a thriving school. This post would be ideally suited to an creative, passionate and highly qualified teacher who is motivated, shows commitment to self-improvement to oneself, their team and to the extracurricular life of the department and School.
Applications from ECT’s are welcome.
The successful candidate will:
● Provide dynamic and inspiring lessons
● Ensure students are at the centre of planning and teaching
● Focus on teaching and learning
● Provide learning with a focus on development
● Provide students with a full curriculum
● Engage and empower students with the skills to thrive as independent learners
We can offer you:
● Excellent CPD opportunities
● A school rated Good by Ofsted where students’ behaviour is exemplary
● A professional working environment where teamwork is highly valued
● A partially-selective school with a focus on academic achievement (Progress 8 in 2020-21 was+0.53)
● Admission criteria where preference is given to staffs’ children
● A school which invests heavily in the future with £6M recent school expansion and strong ongoing financial support from our Foundation and PTA
● A hugely talented and cohesive support staff
● An outstanding wellbeing programme offering:
❖ Flu jabs
❖ Free access to our first-class fitness suite and swimming pool
❖ Complimentary eye tests
❖ Fortnightly wellbeing period
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and are an equal opportunities employer. Applicants must declare any criminal convictions and submit to a check with the Disclosing and Barring Service as the post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Application forms and further details can be obtained from the website www.rickmansworth.herts.sch.uk, by calling the School on 01923 773296 or by email to applications@rickmansworth.herts.sch.uk.
Deadline for applications: 08:00 Friday 01 July 2022
Interviews: W/C 04 July 2022 (or sooner on receipt of application)
We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date.
Attached documents
- Child Protection Policy and Procedures - September 2022 (2).pdf454.98KB
- Code of Professional Conduct Policy - October 2023.pdf190.3KB
- Rickmansworth School Prospectus.pdf1.44MB
- Rickmansworth School recruitment pack 2022.pdf4.47MB
- Teaching Application Form 2022.docx234.04KB
- Teacher of Computing - JDPS - 2022.pdf115.66KB
About Rickmansworth School
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