What skills and experience we're looking for
Required from January 2025 or the Summer Term 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our highly successful Humanities Faculty as a Teacher of Humanities. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, innovative and has a passion for the humanities subjects to join us from January 2025 or the Summer Term 2025 to teach across all year groups, both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. You will join a thriving, creative, well-resourced, and highly regarded faculty to foster a passion, curiosity, and intrigue for our world among our students.
If you are committed to high-quality teaching and learning and have a passion for delivering engaging and rigorous lessons that inspire our students, whilst developing your own career in a supportive faculty and school, working with colleagues who share that passion, then we want to hear from you! You will have the desire to be part of a successful teaching team and a willingness to contribute to new initiatives within the faculty whilst upholding the highest expectations.
The role would suit an Early Career Teacher (ECT) or an experienced teacher. A part-time offer may be considered for the right candidate.
The Mountbatten School recognises the benefits derived from investing in our staff, and there are a number of additional benefits available to all staff:
• Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Professional development opportunities
• Free parking for all staff
• Free use of the Fitness Suite
• Childcare vouchers if already part of the scheme
• Annual Flu Jabs offered
• Assistance towards eye tests and glasses
• Vivup Benefits. This includes lifestyle, home, and electronics savings as well as cycle to work benefits
• Blue Light Card by application offering a great range of discounts online and on the high street
For further details and to apply please visit alternatively email human.resources@mountbatten.school or telephone 01794 510227.
Closing date: Monday 18 November 2024 at 12.00 noon
Interviews: w/c Monday 18th November 2024
Please note CV’s will not be accepted and we reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive applications that meet the criteria. We, therefore, strongly advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
What the school offers its staff
The school is situated in Romsey, a very pleasant abbey town in the southern Test Valley. Opened in 1969 and built on land formerly in the ownership of Earl Mountbatten's Broadlands Estate, the school enjoyed the patronage of Lord Louis until his assassination. We are honoured that his great granddaughter, The Lady Alexandra Knatchbull, is our current patron.
The school is one of the largest and most successful co-educational comprehensives in Hampshire. Our intake is 300, and there are currently 1466 students on roll.
The school serves a predominantly rural catchment area extending from the boundary of Southampton to the boundary of Wiltshire. We are the larger of two secondary schools in the town. The school is very popular and heavily oversubscribed.
The school is a Single Academy Trust. Andrew Portas, the school’s Headmaster, has been in post since September 2022 and was formerly the Senior Deputy appointed in September 2010. The school is organised into eight faculties with approximately 80 FTE teaching staff, and the pastoral structure is based on five year groups.
The school is fortunate to have extensive grounds as it was built on land that was formerly part of Lord Mountbatten’s Broadlands Estate. Since the school became an academy on 1 April 2011, there has been an extensive refurbishment programme over many years. As a result, all departments are very well-resourced and accommodated.
The school is high achieving and GCSE outcomes are very good. Ofsted carried out an ungraded inspection of the school in January 2024; the school remained ‘good’ with many aspects of the school’s work being recognised as ‘first class’. There is a very strong international ethos and tangible links with schools in Africa, Asia and Europe. The school has a very strong focus on staff development. Career development is pursued in leadership, pedagogy and pastoral opportunities.
The Mountbatten School recognises the benefits derived from investing in our staff, and there are a number of additional benefits available to all staff:
• Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Professional development opportunities
• Free parking for all staff
• Free use of the Fitness Suite
• Childcare vouchers if already part of the scheme
• Annual Flu Jabs offered
• Assistance towards eye tests and glasses
• Vivup Benefits. This includes lifestyle, home, and electronics savings as well as cycle to work benefits
• Blue Light Card by application offering a great range of discounts online and on the high street
Commitment to safeguarding
The Mountbatten School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and all staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. All our recruitment and selection practices reflect this and successful applicants are subject to Disclosure and Barring Service Checks along with other relevant employment checks.