Teacher of Computer Science

TEACHER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Salary: MPS/UPS

Location: Charlton School

Required from: September 2025

Contract type: FTE

Contract term: Permanent

Charlton is an 11-16 comprehensive school, well established in the heart of its local community. We are a truly comprehensive school, admitting children from over 20 primary schools, with students’ prior attainment at KS2 broadly in line with National Average, with a slight bias towards higher ability range.

At Charlton we take pride in students’ progress, with learning at the heart of all we do. We know the importance of inspiring students to develop a thirst for learning, so our curriculum is broad, rich and matched to individuals’ needs.

Our emphasis on purposeful, relevant learning means that our students benefit from a range of visits, specialist teaching and extensive extra-curricular experiences. We aim for all our students to enjoy school, excel in their studies and attain outstanding outcomes.

Charlton’s Vision – Building Knowledge, Developing Character, Inspiring Futures

Our vision is to nurture happy, healthy young people who have the knowledge, academic achievement and strength of character to lead safe and successful lives in modern Britain, preparing them for their next steps in education or employment with a thirst for lifelong learning.

Charlton’s Values

At Charlton our ethos is built upon our three core values, we expect all members of the Charlton community to always exhibit these values:

• Respect
• Responsibility
• Resilience

We are tremendously proud of our school building. It provides first rate facilities, purpose-built for the 21st century. Our new build school opened in June 2016 and was the last school in the country to be completed under the Building Schools for the Future scheme.

Additional investment in state-of-the-art ICT, Sports, Expressive Arts, Science and Technology, have been a great boost to students’ already rich curriculum of Foreign Languages, Humanities, English and Maths. We firmly believe that the new facilities will further strengthen our high performance across the school.

The school joined the Learning Communities Trust as an academy in December 2018. This is a multi-academy trust set up to serve the needs of the students in the Wellington and Hadley areas of Telford. This is an exciting development for the school, and we are already seeing the benefits of collaborating with other schools.

Following a recent Ofsted inspection (May 2023), the school has been judged to be good overall and good in all the separate judgement areas. We are delighted with the outcome, and that the dedication and hard work of our students and staff has been rightly recognised.

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a teacher to join our successful Computer Science department, supporting the further development of an innovative curriculum for all, with purposeful, contextual learning and high expectations for students forming a major part of our passion for learning.

As a member of our team, you will focus on ensuring the progress of every child by developing their skills, knowledge and understanding for this subject, within an exciting and relevant curriculum.

Our Computer Science department has an excellent team spirit where collaboration, cooperation and the sharing of best practice are key, as is hard work within a supportive team. Learning is at the heart of all they do, and they aim to provide students with outstanding opportunities.

We are looking for a teacher who is enthusiastic about their subject, someone who can inspire the children in their care to be passionate about Computer Science and all this can offer them.

Closing date for applications: 9am on Tuesday 6th May 2025

Interviews: TBC

Application forms and further information are available from the school website www.charlton.uk.com. Alternatively, you may contact Rachel Proctor rachel.proctor1@lct.education or call 01952 951409 Ext. 1830 if you have any questions or would like to arrange a visit to the school.

Sorry but CV’s will not be accepted.

The Learning Community Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All post holders working in regulated activity with children, are required to have an enhanced DBS check (including a check on the children’s barred list).

References will be required for all shortlisted candidates, prior to interview and these will be checked following the Learning Community Trust recruitment and selection process.

In line with the Statutory Guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education an online check will also be undertaken for all shortlisted candidates prior to the interview. Shortlisted candidates will also be required to complete a criminal self-disclosure declaration, posts that involve working in regulated activity are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, please note it is a criminal offence for individuals on the barred list for children to apply for any post working with children.

We are committed to equality and diversity and follow the Safer Recruitment practices as set out in the Statutory Guidance - Keeping Children Safe in Education.

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Application Pack