Science Teacher | Co-Educational Comprehensive Academy | Middlesbrough

CORE PURPOSE

We require an ambitious, intellectually rigorous Science Teacher to deliver high-quality scientific instruction across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. The role involves facilitating a challenging, enquiry-led academic curriculum that deepens empirical reasoning, practical laboratory mastery, and conceptual understanding across Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, preparing pupils thoroughly for terminal public examinations and future STEM pathways.

KEY TASKS & DAILY OPERATIONS

• Curriculum Design & Instruction: Plan, resource, and deliver highly structured, evidence-based science lessons that engage and challenge pupils across all academic profiles.

• Laboratory Leadership & Safety: Coordinate and execute safe, engaging practical experiments, ensuring pupils master foundational scientific methodologies, equipment handling, and rigorous lab safety protocols.

• Academic Progress Monitoring: Implement systematic formative and summative assessment routines, utilising pupil tracking data to design sharp, targeted interventions that bridge learning gaps.

• Examination Preparation: Guide Key Stage 4 cohorts systematically through the demands of terminal GCSE Combined Science or Separate Sciences specifications, maximising progress and attainment outcomes.

• Pastoral Care Integration: Undertake full form tutor responsibilities, managing daily registration, monitoring pupil attendance, and delivering the school's structured personal development units.

ENVIRONMENT & STRUCTURE

• Academy Framework: Operating within a forward-thinking multi-academy trust, our school combines a robust, data-led approach to student progress with extensive professional development networks, providing collaborative department planning and structured pathways designed to accelerate teacher growth.

• Behaviour Systems: The campus implements highly consistent, school-wide behaviour routines that maintain a quiet, respectful, and orderly atmosphere, ensuring science laboratories remain calm, predictable, and entirely optimised for safe practical work.

PROFILE REQUIREMENTS

• Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or an equivalent recognised teaching credential, paired with a strong honours degree in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or a closely related scientific discipline.

• Pedagogical Capability: A proven track record or clear capacity to deliver strong progress outcomes in terminal public examinations through explicit, highly engaging scientific pedagogy.

• Routine Implementation: The ability to execute school behaviour and health and safety policies with absolute consistency, maintaining a positive, highly focused, and strictly disciplined workshop and laboratory culture.

REGIONAL CONTEXT

• Industrial Heritage & Tees Valley Regeneration: Based in Middlesbrough, the school operates within the heart of the Tees Valley, a region renowned for its rich industrial engineering and chemical manufacturing heritage that is rapidly transforming into a major UK hub for digital tech innovation, clean green energy projects, and advanced shipping logistics.

• Connectivity: The area offers premier North East transit infrastructure, providing seamless travel via major arterial routes including the A19 and A66 corridors, alongside exceptional rail links running smoothly through Middlesbrough railway station—offering direct Northern and TransPennine Express services to Newcastle, York, Leeds, and Manchester, as well as regular LNER connections straight to London King's Cross.

APPLICATION INTAKE

Please submit your current CV to begin the application process.