Chaplain
| Posting date: | 18 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW10 0AB |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10b70498-a113-4bb8-8d79-d7061826f13c |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
A fantastic and unique opportunity has arisen to recruit a new Chaplain. Our current Chaplain is taking up a new role closer to home after three years at the Academy. We are looking for someone, ideally with a background in Christian youth work and/ or chaplaincy, to become our new Chaplain. This role is a key one at the Academy, ensuring that students and staff are supported and guided on their spiritual journey. The Academy opened in 2009 to meet the need for a mixed Church of England school in the local area. Half our intake is admitted through the foundation route but all our students apply in the knowledge that they will both be supported and flourish in a proudly Christian environment. Our students are wonderful: hard working and enormously proud of their Academy. Staff are dedicated and highly ambitious and, alongside the talented Leadership Team, ensure we continue to be successful and truly aspirational for the the young people we serve.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
• Exceptional professional development and career progression
• A relentless focus on staff wellbeing including a late start or early finish one day a week for teaching staff
• Positive working relationships at all levels
• An ambitious, dynamic and supportive Leadership Team
• Opportunity to gain experience through our partnerships with local schools and networks
• Private Medical Care Support Packages
• Cycle Scheme
• Access to School Advisory Services for wellbeing
• Daily Staff lunch
• Travel card loan scheme
• Use of Academy gym facilities
Commitment to safeguarding
Chelsea Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be able to satisfy successful references, an enhanced police / Security Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and right to work in the UK prior to starting employment with the Academy. Offers of employment may also be subject to: childcare disqualification medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
A fantastic and unique opportunity has arisen to recruit a new Chaplain. Our current Chaplain is taking up a new role closer to home after three years at the Academy. We are looking for someone, ideally with a background in Christian youth work and/ or chaplaincy, to become our new Chaplain. This role is a key one at the Academy, ensuring that students and staff are supported and guided on their spiritual journey. The Academy opened in 2009 to meet the need for a mixed Church of England school in the local area. Half our intake is admitted through the foundation route but all our students apply in the knowledge that they will both be supported and flourish in a proudly Christian environment. Our students are wonderful: hard working and enormously proud of their Academy. Staff are dedicated and highly ambitious and, alongside the talented Leadership Team, ensure we continue to be successful and truly aspirational for the the young people we serve.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
• Exceptional professional development and career progression
• A relentless focus on staff wellbeing including a late start or early finish one day a week for teaching staff
• Positive working relationships at all levels
• An ambitious, dynamic and supportive Leadership Team
• Opportunity to gain experience through our partnerships with local schools and networks
• Private Medical Care Support Packages
• Cycle Scheme
• Access to School Advisory Services for wellbeing
• Daily Staff lunch
• Travel card loan scheme
• Use of Academy gym facilities
Commitment to safeguarding
Chelsea Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be able to satisfy successful references, an enhanced police / Security Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and right to work in the UK prior to starting employment with the Academy. Offers of employment may also be subject to: childcare disqualification medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.