Teacher of Biology (Maternity cover)
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Westminster School
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- Required for September 2023
- Apply by:
- 9 February 2023
Job overview
Maternity cover (fixed-term contract for one academic year)
This is an exciting opportunity for a well-qualified individual, with a biological science or closely related degree to join one of the UK’s long-established schools, covering a period of maternity leave.
As a Teacher of Biology, you will teach the subject to a high standard at all levels within the School, inspiring enthusiasm in your pupils, supporting their pastoral welfare, and helping to maintain Westminster's very high academic standards. You will teach a full timetable of lessons and support extra-curricular activities offered by the Biology Department (including a residential Ecology field trip in June) and the wider-school community.
The successful applicant will be professional, kind, well-organised, efficient and able to work and communicate effectively with colleagues, pupils and parents. Previous teaching experience is a desirable attribute, though not essential. Nevertheless, we also welcome applicants who have not taught before. There is ample support within the department for a person looking to begin a career in teaching.
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.
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The closing date for applications is Thursday 9 February 2023.
Interviews will take place week commencing 20 February 2023.
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.
Westminster Under School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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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