Teacher of Biology
Ashford Senior School
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1 September 2017
- Apply by:
- 24 May 2017
Job overview
Teacher of Biology
September 2017 or earlier for a graduate trainee
Are you a well-qualified and passionate Biology Graduate looking to develop your career at one of the UK’s leading coeducational, independent schools?
As one of our teachers you will use your imagination, commitment and ambition to challenge our students to enjoy Biology and possess the insight and enthusiasm to convey its intricacies in an engaging and adventurous way.
With an excellent honours degree in Biology you should be accustomed to or capable of guiding students of the highest ability. You should be familiar with IT and its use as a tool for learning, teaching and administration and be prepared to develop your skills further. Ability and drive are key factors but experience of teaching A level is also desirable.
You will enjoy a welcoming, comfortable and well-resourced environment and be provided with assistance from a range of support staff. All teachers act as tutors and are expected to contribute to the co-curricular life of the School. Salary is by negotiation and dependent on skills, attributes and qualifications of the successful candidate. Single person accommodation may be available.
Department for Education approved arrangements are in place for NQTs. Non-qualified graduates will train with the HMC Teacher Training programme, leading to a PGCE and QTS after two years.
Deadline for applications: Noon on Thursday 25 May 2017.
Interviews: during w/c 5 June.
Ashford School, part of United Learning, is one of the UK's leading coeducational, independent schools and was voted Independent School of the Year 2010/11 and again in 2014/15. The School was endorsed as outstandingly successful in every category during the most recent inspection in 2014. In September 2014, Ashford School became a Teaching School, only one of four Independent Schools in the UK to do so.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
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About Ashford Senior School
Ashford School is one of the UK's leading coeducational independent day and boarding school, founded in 1898, and voted Independent School of the Year 2010/2011. The school was endorsed as outstandingly successful in every category during the most recent inspection in 2014. In September 2014, Ashford School became a Teaching School; only one of four Independent Schools in the UK to do so. There are 850 pupils, comprising Bridge Nursery in Ashford, looking after children of 3 months to three years old; Ashford Prep School in the rural village of Great Chart, a preparatory school for children between 3 and 11, and Ashford School, a senior school for girls and boys aged 11 to 18, occupying a prominent 25+ acre site close to the centre of Ashford and within a short walk of the International Station. There are good rail, road and bus links to Ashford and London (37 minutes) and the school operates its own bus services to outlying villages.
Teachers at Ashford enjoy a welcoming, comfortable and well-resourced environment and are provided with assistance from a range of support staff. All teachers act as tutors and are expected to contribute to the co-curricular life of the school. Responding to the needs of the individual student - be it preparing for examinations in after-school classes or guiding the most able through Olympiad problems - is at the heart of the department and School ethos.
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