Digital Literacy Lead
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 14 June 2026
Job overview
The role
Wimbledon High School is seeking an innovative and forward-thinking teacher to take on the role of Digital Literacy Lead.
This is a unique cross-phase position that combines teaching, curriculum design, staff development and academic leadership across both the Junior and Senior Schools. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping and delivering a coherent vision for digital literacy and emerging technologies, ensuring that students develop not only technical skills and digital fluency, but also the critical awareness, creativity and judgement needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving world.
Working across the school, the Digital Literacy Lead will oversee the development of a progressive digital literacy curriculum, teach Computing in both the Upper Junior and Senior Schools and contribute to Wimbledon High School's innovative Playful Scholarship Portfolio. From artificial intelligence and robotics to online culture, digital citizenship and media literacy, the successful candidate will help students engage thoughtfully and critically with the opportunities and challenges of modern technology.
The role will also involve supporting colleagues in the effective use of technology to enhance teaching and learning, helping to build confidence and expertise across the school community. This is an exciting opportunity for a teacher who is passionate about education, curious about technological change and eager to help shape the future of learning at Wimbledon High School.
About you
Applications are welcomed from both Prep School and Senior School teachers, as well as candidates with diverse academic and professional backgrounds, who are excited by the opportunity to contribute to a through-school approach to digital literacy and technology education.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record of successful teaching, together with experience of curriculum development, educational technology or academic leadership. Experience of leading or contributing to enrichment opportunities such as coding clubs, robotics programmes, digital leadership initiatives or technology-focused projects would be advantageous.
Most importantly, the successful candidate will be an intellectually curious and collaborative educator who is excited by the educational, ethical and creative questions raised by technology and committed to helping young people become confident, thoughtful and responsible participants in the digital world.
About Wimbledon High School
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co-curricular opportunities, character-forging partnerships and our ‘playful scholarship’ approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London.
Benefits
As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
Competitive salaries and pay progression
Access to extensive professional development opportunities
GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from: https://workplace.aviva.co.uk/gdst/)
Training grants for qualifications
Free life assurance benefit
A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season tickets
Cycle to Work scheme
Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further details and an application form please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications will be 5pm on Sunday 14th June 2026.
Interviews will take place on Friday 19th June 2026.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified individuals. To be eligible for employment, candidates must provide proof of their right to work in the UK.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening including online searches will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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