Teacher / Subject Leader for Life Skills (including PSHE, careers and citizenship)

Job title: Teacher / Subject Leader for Life Skills (including PSHE, careers and citizenship)

Salary: MPS/UPS + London Fringe - TLR 2a (£3211)

Hours: Full time/part time

Responsible to: Head of Faculty for Health

Contract: Permanent

Required for September 2024 a well-qualified teacher of Life Skills to teach across the age and ability range in a faculty that achieves excellent results and high standards. Life Skills encompasses the teaching of PSHE, RSE, careers and citizenship.  A Subject Leader role is available for a suitably experienced candidate. We are looking for an enthusiastic and imaginative individual to help all our students to ‘achieve their potential and enjoy the journey’, joining a supportive and committed Health Faculty which promotes ‘healthy minds in healthy bodies’.  Candidates able to offer teaching in other subjects are welcome to apply (please see our website for our full curriculum offer) and should state this in their application. We will discuss specific subject expertise at interview. 

Life Skills (PHSE) is highly valued in the school with all year groups taught one lesson a week from Year 7 to Year 13. We recognise the vital importance of pupil personal development and believe strongly that our Life Skills programme should help to equip our pupils with the skills and attributes that will enable them to thrive, both in and beyond school.

Visitors tell us that our school is a friendly, lively and stimulating community where we emphasise the importance of the individual’s contribution and take pleasure in sharing and celebrating achievement.  They commend the good behaviour of the pupils and their thirst for knowledge. Bishop’s is a diverse community that offers mutual support and encouragement and expects everyone within it to respect others’ heritage, cultures, religion and beliefs.  We hope that the values, self-discipline and sense of personal worth that pupils gain here will be a support throughout their lives as British and Global Citizens. We welcome applications from candidates from racially minoritised backgrounds and from other groups that are underrepresented in the UK education system.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the school at a time of growth and development. Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School is heavily over-subscribed and has around 950 pupils on roll including the Sixth Form.  We are fully committed to our values of teamwork, respect, honesty, trust, kindness and ambition.  The school completed its most recent Ofsted inspection in December 2022 and was judged to continue to be Outstanding. However, we are not driven by Ofsted and our priorities lie in supporting our pupils to develop their knowledge, skills and character through the ‘Bishop’s 360’ model.  The school has benefited from a total rebuild on the same site and enjoys excellent state of the art facilities.  BHGS holds International School Status, the Music Mark and is a Fairtrade School.  Hatfield is within easy reach of London and other areas and the London Fringe Allowance is payable.

The school's Admissions’ Code gives priority places to children of staff and we give high priority to staff development. Staff are able to apply for our Professional Development Award which provides bursary payments to help finance CPD that goes beyond the school’s usual training programme.

We are confident that Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School is a great place to work. We offer a supportive environment, excellent facilities, and a commitment to professional development. If you are passionate about education and you are looking for a rewarding career, we encourage you to apply.

We take safeguarding of our students extremely seriously and an enhanced disclosure will be sought through the Disclosure and Barring Service as part of the school’s pre-employment checks.

If you would like to visit us, prior to making an application, and see for yourself how our pupils learn in a vibrant, supportive environment please contact Sally Fullerton at sfullerton@bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk. 

Please see the job description on our website for more detail.

Closing date for applications:   Monday 13th May 2024

Interview and assessment date: To be confirmed (please note that we reserve the right to make an early appointment for applications made prior to the deadline)

PLEASE COMPLETE THE BHGS APPLICATION FORM available on our website - https://bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk/vacancies/

Completed application forms accompanied by a covering letter should be emailed to sfullerton@bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk

An Equal Opportunities’ Employer,

Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School is committed to

the protection and safety of its pupils and expects all

staff to share this commitment.