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Leader of Initial Teacher Training - Highdown School
| Posting date: | 09 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £57,831 to £62,202 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2025 |
| Location: | Reading, Berkshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Reading Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SCH3095 |
Summary
Full time/Part time
Required for September 2025
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 28 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is well known for its exceptional initial teacher training provision: with a dedicated Teaching and Learning Hub for trainee teachers, expert subject mentors and a high track record of recruiting and retaining excellent trainee teachers.
We work with a large variety of training providers and this year we are a pilot school for the new teacher degree apprenticeship. This new leadership position builds on these strong foundations to establish the GLF Teaching Hub in Oxfordshire and Reading and furthering our vision to be the ‘school of choice’ for teachers in Reading and beyond.
The Initial Teacher Training Lead will have a timetabled teaching commitment of 30 periods per fortnight (out of 50), complying with the Teachers’ Standards and modelling best practice for others.
Why Highdown School?
• We are a Good School with many outstanding features which continues to rapidly improve
• We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
• Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities
We are on a journey to becoming a ‘regional centre of excellence’. Why not join us?
Closing Date: Sunday 18th May 2025
To apply, please go to the following link: https://www.eteach.com/careers/highdown-reading/
Email: office@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are also trained in safer recruitment, and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and a ‘Prohibition from Teaching’ check. As part of our safeguarding procedures, candidates will also be subject to an online record search.
Required for September 2025
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 28 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is well known for its exceptional initial teacher training provision: with a dedicated Teaching and Learning Hub for trainee teachers, expert subject mentors and a high track record of recruiting and retaining excellent trainee teachers.
We work with a large variety of training providers and this year we are a pilot school for the new teacher degree apprenticeship. This new leadership position builds on these strong foundations to establish the GLF Teaching Hub in Oxfordshire and Reading and furthering our vision to be the ‘school of choice’ for teachers in Reading and beyond.
The Initial Teacher Training Lead will have a timetabled teaching commitment of 30 periods per fortnight (out of 50), complying with the Teachers’ Standards and modelling best practice for others.
Why Highdown School?
• We are a Good School with many outstanding features which continues to rapidly improve
• We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
• Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities
We are on a journey to becoming a ‘regional centre of excellence’. Why not join us?
Closing Date: Sunday 18th May 2025
To apply, please go to the following link: https://www.eteach.com/careers/highdown-reading/
Email: office@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are also trained in safer recruitment, and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and a ‘Prohibition from Teaching’ check. As part of our safeguarding procedures, candidates will also be subject to an online record search.
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