Science Technician

Teaching Vacancies; Waltham Cross; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local academy is looking for an enthusiastic Science teacher to join their team by October 2025. The ideal candidate will inspire students to reach their potential and actively contribute to a nurturing school environment. Successful candidates will have opportunities for professional development in a supportive community. Applications are encouraged before the closing date of 7th October 2025.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Personalized professional development opportunities

Access to gym facilities

Pension scheme eligibility

Health and well-being resources

Qualifications

• Experience or potential to be an outstanding practitioner.
• Commitment to safeguarding and child protection.
• Ability to adapt teaching methods to individual student needs.

Responsibilities

• Teach and inspire students in the Science department.
• Develop engaging curriculum and learning experiences.
• Contribute to the school's educational goals.

Skills

Passion for learning and teaching

Ability to inspire and motivate students

Commitment to student potential

Education

Relevant teaching qualification

Job description

Overview

The Science department at Goffs Academy is seeking to recruit a new colleague for October 2025.

The successful candidate for this position:

• Will have a passion for learning and teaching
• Believes in the right of every student to fulfil their potential
• Is or has the potential to be an outstanding practitioner, with the energy to inspire, motivate and challenge students

What we offer

• Opportunities to work in a range of settings and schools through the Generations Multi Academy Trust
• A school described by Ofsted as being one where “students work together exceptionally well,” and where “students are overwhelmingly enthusiastic about school”
• Outstanding, highly personalised professional development opportunities, including the opportunity to coach and be coached by others in the area’s School Direct hub school
• Outstanding career development including dedicated leadership development and coaching in a national “Leadership” school

Please contact the HR department on 01992 624375, or by email at [e-mail] for further details.

Closing date for applications: 7th October 2025

Interviews will be held: Week commencing 7th October 2025.

The Trust reserves the right to process applications as they are received, and early applications are encouraged. Previous applicants need not apply.

Generations Multi Academy Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note that this role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore, you are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not ‘protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). Further information is available on the school’s website.

What the school offers its staff

INFORMATION ABOUT GOFFS-CHURCHGATE AND THE GENERATIONS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

Welcome to our information pack about Goffs-Churchgate and the Generations Multi Academy Trust.

Goffs-Churchgate Academy was the first school to join the Generations Multi Academy Trust. The school is now in its seventh year of operation and continues to go from strength to strength. The school is a fully mixed comprehensive school from 11-16 years of age, with 600 on roll. The school has rapidly established a very strong reputation in the area, and is now consistently oversubscribed. In addition, the school recently received its OFSTED report from May 2022, which graded the school as “good” with outstanding features.

One of the school’s key strengths is its highly cohesive and supportive community. As such, the decision to cap student numbers at 600 is entirely deliberate, enabling us to maintain a strong sense of community where everybody knows everybody else - if you visit, you cannot fail to be struck by this. It is a very special part of who we are.

Professional Working and Learning Environment

The school has benefited from brand new facilities, opened in October 2016, including professional teaching and learning facilities for all subjects. The school also benefits from a recently installed 3G playing surface for PE; a gym with a professional sprung floor; a Dance Studio; recent refurbishment of additional classrooms and an indoor swimming pool. The new facilities provide a light, modern, professional, and fit for purpose working environment for all. The Trust has also invested significantly in modernising additional teaching spaces, providing a fantastic environment for our students and staff.

Our strategy for continuous school improvement has had huge success and we are actively committed to ensuring that our very popular and successful schools continue as centres of excellence in the community.

The Generations Multi Academy Trust

GMAT is a cross-phase Multi Academy Trust based in Cheshunt, currently comprising two secondaries and two primaries - Goffs Academy, Goffs-Churchgate Academy, Flamstead End School and Andrews Lane School. Across the piece, GMAT currently has just under 3,000 students in its care and employs just under 400 staff. The MAT also has nursery provision on the Goffs-Churchgate site, with subsidised and term-time only places for staff. The nursery is run by Ashbourne Nurseries - https://ashbournedaynurseries.com/.

All of the schools are within close proximity of each other and share many activities, including CPD for staff. One of the Trust’s fundamental principles is that no one school is in any way more important or successful than the other. As such, CPD and other events are rotated through all schools in the Trust, with everyone learning from and sharing with each other. This collegiate and collaborative approach permeates our Trust.

The MAT is extremely clear about its daily purpose, reflected in its motto of “no set destiny for any child.” All of our schools, leaders and staff believe fiercely in the life-changing nature of education and work tirelessly to that end, day in and day out. There is no set destiny for any of the children in our care; rather, we are each very clear that our daily work across the piece allows children to forge new futures and destinies.

Andrews Lane School joined GMAT from 1st January 2025. It is a warm and welcoming primary school in Cheshunt with approximately 170 children on roll. It has lots of space, including a field and a forest. It is a one-form entry school. In EYFS, 30 hours provision is available. As a 'Herts Therapeutic Thinking' school, the school is committed to understanding and supporting children with their learning and achievement, within a context of deep-rooted mutual respect. The school is committed to supporting its children and their families, and as such provides adult learning classes throughout the year.

Staff are committed, dedicated professionals who want to do their very best for every pupil.

Flamstead End School is a thriving primary school in Cheshunt with approximately 490 children on roll. It has a preschool, a 60-place nursery offering 30 hours provision, and two classes per year group from Reception to Year 6. Flamstead End is also a 'Herts Therapeutic Thinking' school, and seeks to understand and support children's behaviour so that they are able to learn and achieve to the best of their ability. The school is a tight knit community, with a well-established staff who care for one another and the children in their charge.

Goffs is a mixed 11-18 comprehensive academy with approximately 1,600 students on roll, including a thriving and successful sixth form. The school is also extremely popular in the local area, with an average of over 800 applications annually for the 240 places available, and significant waiting lists for places across the year groups.

Goffs-Churchgate is a fully mixed comprehensive school for 11–16-year-olds, with just over 600 students on roll. The school has rightly established a very strong reputation for both its academic outcomes and its close-knit, nurturing community, receiving over 600 applications for just 120 places for 2024 admission. The decision to cap student numbers at 600 is entirely deliberate, enabling us to maintain a strong sense of community where everybody knows everybody else.

The MAT’s finances are overseen by a highly skilled Chief Finance Officer with considerable financial expertise in the private sector, plus a highly experienced Finance Manager. The Trust deliberately created an innovative Income Generation function, and extensive lettings and business development work now takes place across all sites in the MAT. This additional income – now yielding around £600k per annum – underpins generous levels of staffing at both schools, plus many “extras” that would otherwise be unaffordable in the current funding climate.

GMAT is a fully centralised MAT, with all of our schools able to access dedicated, expert advice and support from centralised functions in HR, Finance, Income Generation, Data/Business Analysis, ICT and Estates.

Our schools are proud to be truly community-based schools, with students and staff from different nationalities, faiths and cultures and a number of languages spoken in each school. As a Trust we recognise and celebrate what makes us unique and different and acknowledge that we are also part of one community. Our aim is for everybody to feel valued and respected, and we strive hard to ensure we create a positive culture within the schools to enable this to happen.

Further information about GMAT can be found here: https://generationsmat.com

Outcomes

Exam results in 2024 once again produced an overall estimated progress score significantly above the national average and reflect the continued success the school has achieved since joining the Trust in 2017.

Highlights include:

• Exceptionally strong progress scores across the headline measures, with the overall progress 8 score significantly above the national average for a third year in a row.
• Excellent outcomes were achieved in maths and the performance in English was phenomenally strong.
• The outcomes at the top end were particularly impressive with the progress score for the students with high prior attainment very significantly above the national average.
• There was a 12% increase in the percentage of students entering the full Ebacc to bring the overall entry figure to 67% which is significantly above the national average of 39%.

Community

Goffs-Churchgate prides itself on its sense of community – both within the school and in the wider locality. We are members of Cheshunt Extended Services (ChExS), offering a variety of extended school and community-based activities for both students and parents. Our students actively support local charity work and maintain strong links with our local primary schools.

We firmly believe in every student feeling a strong sense of community, and on entering the school, each student is placed in one of four Houses: Attenborough, Rashford, Seacole, and Trott. Each House is led by a team of student House Captains and has a clear sense of identity. Regular competitions and assemblies strengthen this sense of community.

Students within each House arrange a variety of fundraising events throughout the school year. The House raising the most money in the year for our school charity is awarded the annual Charity House Shield. Our new House names were introduced in September 2021. This was part of a wider school project on diversity to ensure that our school community reflects the diverse culture that it serves. The project has influenced the Key Stage 3 curriculum to include diverse authors.

Our students have a wide range of student leadership opportunities, including:

• Student Congress made up of Committees from Students in Years 7-10
• 2 Year 11 Head Students
• 2 Year 11 Deputy Head Students

Across the Multi Academy Trust, a large variety of annual school trips provide opportunities to experience different cultures.

Goffs-Churchgate is proud to be a genuinely comprehensive school, with students and staff from different religions and several languages spoken. We recognise and celebrate what makes us unique and different and acknowledge that we are also part of one community. Our aim is for everybody to feel valued and respected, and we strive hard to ensure we create a positive culture within the school to enable this to happen.

Pastoral care is valued as an integral part of the school’s life, and we have an extensive pastoral care system to support the welfare and progress of all our young people.

Staff Development

The Trust has a strong reputation for staff development, including development for future leaders and a full suite of staff leadership development opportunities for both teaching and support staff.

Leadership Development

The Trust’s leadership academy provides opportunities for aspiring middle and senior leaders, with personalised pathways, mentoring and a range of training sessions.

Staff Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including:

• Competitive base salary with a tailored development plan
• High quality, personalised CPD
• Bespoke leadership development programmes
• Subsidies for masters and degree courses, secondment and shadowing opportunities
• Potential to work across more than one school
• Nursery provision with Ashbourne at select sites with staff discounts and scheduling options
• Additional financial incentives and tax-efficient benefits, including exam marker payments, weekend fixtures payments, and travel/benefits
• Health and well-being resources, including Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme eligibility and enhanced leave policies
• Cycle to work scheme and on-site parking
• Free access to gym facilities and other staff perks

Commitment to safeguarding: Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to checks such as DBS, medical, right to work, references, and suitability to work with children. You must disclose any unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.