Head of Chemistry
Leighton Park School
Reading
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary is competitive, but will depend on your skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2020, but could be earlier for the right candidate
- Apply by:
- 24 February 2020
Job overview
HMC Co-educational boarding and day school for students aged 11-18.
Head of Chemistry
By September 2020 at the latest
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated professional to join our department by September 2020 at the latest in a supportive and team-orientated School. As well as being an excellent classroom practitioner you should also be able to demonstrate a proven commitment to raising levels of student achievement. Our Chemistry Department is an energetic and exciting environment. It has grown in strength with the current team and we are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual who will lead the department’s current teaching and learning strategies and develop their own teaching practice with our support.
Our next Head of Chemistry will be passionate about their subject, inspire and engage our students and actively lead the further development of Chemistry within the School. You will join a committed, hardworking and friendly department who work closely together to achieve the best possible outcomes for our students. The ability to teach across the range of Key Stages, including Sixth Form and IBDP is desirable. Your confident ability to use ICT in the teaching of Chemistry is essential. Applications are welcomed from experienced practitioners particularly those looking for positions with additional responsibility. A willingness to participate in the extra-curricular life of our school is also required.
Leighton Park School is set in over sixty acres of beautiful parkland near to the heart of Reading. Leighton Park offers a distinctive atmosphere that creates achievement with values, character and community. Founded on Quaker principles, we seek to inspire each student to fulfill their academic and personal potential and be reflective, purposeful adults. We appoint candidates who will contribute and thrive in our vibrant community.
The School offers a supportive and professional workplace with excellent terms, conditions and benefits. Accommodation may be available.
To apply, please complete the attached application form or download an application pack from our website and email it to apply@leightonpark.com. If you require further information, please call HR on 0118 987 9600.
Closing date for applications: Midday, 24th February 2020
Interviews will be held shortly after.
Leighton Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, therefore the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our recruitment process.
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About Leighton Park School
Leighton Park School is a successful, forward looking independent (HMC) day and boarding school for approximately 500 pupils aged 11-18 set in 65 acres of magnificent parkland.
Leighton Park exists to form young people of real character and confidence, with a determined desire to change the world, reflecting the school’s Quaker values. In March 2021 we won the ISA Award for Outstanding Local Community Outreach for the involvement of our students, staff and parents in projects helping those less fortunate and putting our Quaker values into practice.
We are a school that inspires Achievement with Values, Character and Community and academic excellence is the consequence of our approach. Valuing breadth and depth, we are distinguished by excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), Music and Ethical Enterprise. The UK Government’s latest 16-18 league tables reveal Leighton Park to be the best performing School in Berkshire and in the top 1% of English schools. We are one of only eight schools to have always appeared in the top 100.
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