What skills and experience we're looking for
• Will suit an early career or experienced teacher
• Ability to teach Physics to Key Stage 5 - essential
• Ability to teach Science up to Key Stage 4 - essential
• Potential TLR3 opportunity as Co-ordinator of Science suited to strengths of the successful candidate may be available
• Right to work in the UK. Please note we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for international candidates.
What the school offers its staff
• Excellent recently modernised Science facilities including 11 fully equipped laboratories, 3 prep rooms and large departmental office
• Support from 2 very experienced Science Technicians
• Opportunity to become involved in a wide range of extra-curricular activities, including overseas trips; Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme; STEM; sport, music & performing arts
• Wide range of career development opportunities through the Prince Henry's Teaching School Hub
• High quality and pleasant teaching environment in a school that has benefited from £10m of capital investment since 2013, including £1.2m modernisation of Science Department
• Cycle to Work Scheme (salary sacrifice)
• Electric Vehicle Leasing Scheme (salary sacrifice)
Further details about the role
We require a well-qualified teacher of Science who must be able to teach Science up to Key Stage 4 and be able to offer Physics to Key Stage 5. A potential TLR3 (£2,298 pa) opportunity as Co-ordinator of Science suited to the strengths of the candidate may be available. Details can be discussed at interview, if appropriate.
This post provides an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to work in a large and high-performing department with supportive & caring colleagues, as well as the option to be involved in a wide range of STEM and other extra-curricular activities. As part of recently completed ten-year £10m capital investment programme, our Science Department has benefited from a £1.2m refurbishment and modernisation programme, meaning that lessons are taught in light and airy state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms.
Prince Henry’s is a popular and over-subscribed 13-18 High School with approximately 1,300 on roll including more than 330 in one of Worcestershire’s largest Sixth Forms and is a founder school within the Worcestershire Hills Trust. The school enjoys an excellent reputation locally, and consistently been judged outstanding by Ofsted, most recently in March 2024, when it was judged to be outstanding in all areas, including Sixth Form. Among its many accreditations, the school holds the National SMSCD Gold Award, the Career Mark, the NACE Challenge Award and is a Centre of Excellence for the Inclusion Quality Mark.
The successful candidate will be committed to the highest standards of academic achievement and behaviour and will genuinely enjoy working with teenagers of all abilities. They will have a clear understanding of how to achieve and maintain high standards and will already have a record as an excellent classroom teacher or, for applicants still in training, the potential to become outstanding.
Having been a Teaching School since 2014, Prince Henry’s became a Teaching School Hub in September 2021, with Hub status being re-accredited for a further four years in 2024. Supporting and developing the careers of all our teachers, from Initial Teacher Training through to Senior Leadership progression sits at the heart of our ethos in relation to colleagues working at Prince Henry’s.
Potential applicants are welcome to telephone Claire Fisher, Head of Science/Assistant Headteacher to discuss this post or to arrange to visit the school if they wish.
Commitment to safeguarding
Prince Henry's High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all shortlisted candidates. The school will also conduct an online search on all shortlisted candidates which may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school might want to explore with you at interview.