Teacher of Social Sciences
| Posting date: | 07 October 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 October 2025 |
| Location: | Stourbridge, Worcestershire, DY8 2XS |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | d4978fe3-fbfd-4978-a88b-abe6ba837e6b |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
About the role:
We are seeking to appoint a Teacher of Social Sciences as part of our school teaching team.
The Teacher of Social Sciences will be accountable for planning and teaching lessons to the classes they are assigned to teach within the context of the school’s plans, curriculum, and schemes of work. The successful candidate would teach students in Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5.
Our successful candidate will have the following experience, skillset and qualifications:
§ Honours Degree
§ DfE recognised Qualified Teacher Status
§ Evidence of continuing professional development
§ Evidence of keeping up to date with educational thinking and knowledge
§ Suitability to work with young children
§ Able to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people
§ Positive attitude to use of authority and maintaining discipline
§ Experience of teaching in a secondary school
The post will be full-time and permanent to start in January 2026.
What the school offers its staff
Why join us?
We recognise that successful people place value on the range of benefits associated with their careers. As your future employer we place value on these too, that is why we are proud to offer:
§ Access to the Teachers’ Pensions Scheme
§ Automatic pay progression for those on our main, upper and support staff pay ranges
§ 7 training days calendared with a view to alleviate pressure at key times in the year, with a training day in December dedicated to marking mock exams
§ Access to a range of paid special leave provisions to help with life’s emergencies, unpredictable events and significant occasions.
§ Access to a bank of pre-planned teaching resources. You need to intellectually prepare for lessons rather than plan from scratch.
§ Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme
§ Healthcare benefits including free eye test vouchers for DSE users and flu vaccinations
§ Employee Assistance Programme
§ Access to shopping and lifestyle discounts
Commitment to safeguarding
We are an equal opportunities employer and all applicants will receive fair consideration without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other status protected by law. We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. As part of our requirements under Keeping Children Safe in Education pre-employment checks we will undertake. This role will involve undertaking regulated activity and therefore this position is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and an enhanced DBS will be required for the successful candidate.
About the role:
We are seeking to appoint a Teacher of Social Sciences as part of our school teaching team.
The Teacher of Social Sciences will be accountable for planning and teaching lessons to the classes they are assigned to teach within the context of the school’s plans, curriculum, and schemes of work. The successful candidate would teach students in Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5.
Our successful candidate will have the following experience, skillset and qualifications:
§ Honours Degree
§ DfE recognised Qualified Teacher Status
§ Evidence of continuing professional development
§ Evidence of keeping up to date with educational thinking and knowledge
§ Suitability to work with young children
§ Able to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people
§ Positive attitude to use of authority and maintaining discipline
§ Experience of teaching in a secondary school
The post will be full-time and permanent to start in January 2026.
What the school offers its staff
Why join us?
We recognise that successful people place value on the range of benefits associated with their careers. As your future employer we place value on these too, that is why we are proud to offer:
§ Access to the Teachers’ Pensions Scheme
§ Automatic pay progression for those on our main, upper and support staff pay ranges
§ 7 training days calendared with a view to alleviate pressure at key times in the year, with a training day in December dedicated to marking mock exams
§ Access to a range of paid special leave provisions to help with life’s emergencies, unpredictable events and significant occasions.
§ Access to a bank of pre-planned teaching resources. You need to intellectually prepare for lessons rather than plan from scratch.
§ Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme
§ Healthcare benefits including free eye test vouchers for DSE users and flu vaccinations
§ Employee Assistance Programme
§ Access to shopping and lifestyle discounts
Commitment to safeguarding
We are an equal opportunities employer and all applicants will receive fair consideration without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other status protected by law. We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. As part of our requirements under Keeping Children Safe in Education pre-employment checks we will undertake. This role will involve undertaking regulated activity and therefore this position is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and an enhanced DBS will be required for the successful candidate.