Trainee Teacher of Science
Start date: September 2025
Salary : Bursary of £29,000 subject to eligibility (£26,000 for Biology). Opportunity to access enhance United Learning Salaries in ECT Year 1 onwards (subject to securing permanent position).
Contract : Full Time, one year in the first instance. (Opportunity for successful candidates to continue their teaching career at The Regis).
Are you ready to take the first step in your teaching career?
We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to train to teach Science with us at The Regis School, in partnership with United Teaching. Our large science department is a highly ambitious and well-established team comprising of teachers that are passionate about their subject and driven to support every student achieve their very best. The department is well led and there are several experienced mentors who have a proven track record of offering excellent developmental support to trainees, helping to facilitate the best start to their teaching career.
What makes the Regis School a great place to start your teaching career?
At The Regis School we have an extensive support programme, which has been carefully designed to support trainee teachers who are beginning their career. There are many advantages to training with us at The Regis School, which include:
· Support and training that will lead to qualified teacher status (QTS).
· Train to teach in disruption free classrooms, allowing you to focus on mastering the art of teaching.
· Access to a well-resourced Science curriculum that includes detailed resources that will heavily structure/scaffold your lesson planning.
· Access to a dedicated mentor, with protected time each week, working closely with you as you develop as an effective classroom practitioner.
· Training both online and face-to-face with United Teaching, with protected time one day a week to support you with this training (travel expenses included as part of your training).
· Bespoke support from in-school subject specialists.
· Access to regular, research based CPD opportunities that will allow you to build your knowledge of effective teaching & learning, including weekly Science department CPD.
· Bespoke learning walks, with incremental and specific feedback to support your continued improvement.
· Opportunities to collaborate with other trainees and colleagues from over 60 other schools within the United Learning group, who are all part of United Teaching.
· Support from our excellent behaviour and inclusion teams so you are equipped to support the individual needs of each student.
As a United Learning academy, we collaborate with other Science departments locally and across the country. We have played our part in contributing to comprehensive scheme of work which are shared across the academy trust providing significant support with lessons planning. In addition, we have developed a rigorous and structured teaching and learning policy which alongside high-quality weekly subject CPD, helps teachers rapidly optimise their teaching ensuring we get the most out of every minute of our students’ time.
We have a number of core benefits which include competitive rates of pay when compared to the maintained sector; access to a generous pension scheme and enhanced parental leave policies. We also offer reduced gym membership to our on-site gym, reduced fees for the on-site nursery, and a laptop. There is a car leasing scheme and all staff can access ‘Perkbox’ and ‘Westfield’ offering discounts in weekly shopping, high street stores, flights and holidays, we also offer all employees a Health Cash Plan. We are committed to ensuring our employees feel valued and appreciated. We offer more pay, more time, and more support. We offer the best pay in the sector, three extra INSET days for planning, guaranteed personal days, great training for your career, and more.
Eligibility:
· To access this training opportunity, you need to have at least at 2:2 degree.
· This opportunity is a non-salaried training opportunity with a bursary of £29,000 subject to eligibility (£26,000 for Biology) paid in equal payments over the year.
· In addition to the bursary, you may be eligible for tuition fee and maintenance loans.
· Full conditions will be discussed as part of the interview processes.
Training with us at The Regis School, in partnership with United Teaching offers you a training programme that is ambitious, flexible, and carefully designed to prepare you for the challenges and rewards of secondary teaching.
How to apply:
In the first instance please express your interest in this opportunity by contacting Vicky Ovens vicky.ovens@theregisschool.co.uk who will be more than happy to answer your questions and share details of how to apply.
For more information about our school, please visit our website
For more information about United Teaching please visit
The Regis School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all who work at the school to share this commitment. All positions are subject to an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).