Teacher of Physics with KS3 Leadership Opportunity
The Opportunity
Permanent - Full or Part Time - Start September 2025
Our flourishing Science Department has a fantastic opportunity for a passionate subject teacher to teach Physics at all age ranges up to A-Level, working with other teachers, tutors, and parents as needed to ensure their students make excellent progress at our popular boarding and day school.
For exceptional applicants, this role also offers a KS3 leadership opportunity.
The Science Faculty comprises a close-knit, experienced team of some 12 teachers and 4 technicians across three departments: Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, each of which is led by a Head of Department, who are operationally managed by the Head of Science.
Physics is a successful and popular subject at all year groups, regularly supporting two full groups in each year at A-Level (currently following the OCR-A specification). The department is extremely well-resourced, accommodated across three laboratories, and is supported by its own prep room and technician. We are academically ambitious for our students, passionate about enthusing our subject, value its role within a coherent understanding of science, and enjoy working as a team.
The Science Curriculum - At the start of the school in Lower 3 and Form 3 (Years 7 and 8), students take Science as an integrated subject, taught by a single teacher from the Faculty. This means new students have a smaller number of teachers to get used to and gives more opportunity to get to know the students in these two years. From Form 4 (Year 9) upwards, students are taught the sciences separately, overseen by the Heads of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. For GCSE, students may select either Combined Science or Triple Science, all of which follow the AQA GCSE specification.
Prior Park College offers excellent and supportive working conditions with an attractive rewards package to include free lunch and free onsite parking plus use of the onsite gym.
Prior Park combines the very best of tradition and progress, with cutting-edge facilities and accommodation, including a pioneering digital learning programme. All staff at Prior Park College are issued a Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga, a powerful laptop computer for use at school and home, and a full subscription to Microsoft 365, including a 1TB personal OneDrive. All students benefit from a school-issued personal learning device (PLD), a similarly powerful laptop which students use for much of their classwork and homework. Classrooms are equipped with smart docks and large touch-displays, as well as traditional whiteboards, so teachers can exploit the best of both worlds to deliver the most inspiring lessons for our students.
Set in a stunning location, Prior Park College, established in 1830, is an exceptional 11-18 HMC senior school overlooking the Georgian City of Bath, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A modern Christian school, in a Catholic tradition, home to over 600 students, including 150 boarders from ages 11 to 18 years. The school is a thriving community operating in Ralph Allen Drive, Bath.
Prior Park Schools are a family of Christian day and boarding schools comprising Prior Park College (Bath), The Paragon Junior School (Bath), and Prior Park School, Gibraltar.
The Schools’ Mission is to steward a thriving family of communities with love for the young people they serve at their heart. These vibrant communities cultivate creativity, foster integrity, and transform lives.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the school is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Closing date for applications: 12:00 noon Monday 3 March 2025
Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date, and the school reserves the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made. Applicants are therefore encouraged to apply early.
To apply for a position with Prior Park Educational Trust, we ask that the candidates download and complete an application form, also available from our website here and return it to the below email address.
Prior Park Educational Trust salary scale
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