What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an inspirational RE teacher who can:
✔ Deliver engaging, thought-provoking lessons that deepen faith, challenge perspectives, and develop moral reasoning.
✔ Promote the Catholic ethos of the school, integrating Gospel values into everyday learning.
✔ Support learners in their spiritual, moral, and academic development.
✔ Encourage meaningful discussions, critical thinking, and personal reflection.
✔ Work collaboratively with colleagues to enrich the school’s faith life, including liturgies, Masses, and retreats.
✔ Tackle the big theological questions from learners with patience, humour, and wisdom!
What the school offers its staff
A supportive, faith-driven community where RE is at the heart of the curriculum.
✨ A well-resourced faculty, including interactive smart TVs, access to theological texts, and cross-curricular links with other subjects.
✨ A chance to enrich spiritual life through retreats, liturgies, and Catholic Social Teaching initiatives.
✨ Engaged learners who enjoy deep discussions (and occasionally testing you with "What if Adam and Eve had Wi-Fi?").
✨ A strong focus on professional development, including opportunities for leadership within the faculty and across the school.
About the RE Faculty
Religious Education is central to life at St John Fisher Catholic College, helping learners develop their knowledge of Catholicism, other world religions, and philosophical thought.
• KS3: Learners explore the foundations of Catholic faith, sacred texts, and ethical issues, alongside other world religions.
• GCSE: Following the Eduqas Route B specification, learners delve deeper into Catholic theology, religious practices, and moral debates.
• A-Level: Our AQAReligious Studiescourse challenges learners to think critically about Philosophy, Ethics, and Theology.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.