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Are you considering a career as a Chemistry Teacher?
Start date: September 2026
Salary: Bursary of £29,000, subject to eligibility.
Contract: Full Time, one year in the first instance. (Opportunity for successful candidates to continue their teaching career at Swindon Academy).
Would you like train on the job at Swindon Academy and receive a tax-free bursary during your training year?
Don’t miss the opportunity to complete your PGCE at Swindon Academy
Close to the beautiful Cotswolds and within commuting distance of Bristol, Bath, Oxford and Gloucester
This post attracts a bursary of £29,000. You can also apply for a maintenance loan to help with living costs. To check eligibility criteria, please visit the get Into Teaching website.
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Swindon Academy is part of United Learning - the biggest Multi-Academy Trust in the UK. United Teaching is our Initial Teacher Training scheme. We can offer you more than any single school. Training while you teach, you will learn from the best and share our expertise nationwide. With support from mentors and tutors across the Group, it all adds up to the best start for our children, and your career. Because here, teacher training is a path to senior leadership roles across the country.
United Teaching National SCITT is a bespoke teacher training course, run in partnership with a top university, who award the Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). The course starts with a two-week ‘summer school’ in August. You will spend your academic year at Swindon Academy with additional training one afternoon each week at the lead school. You will complete a second placement at the partner Cluster School and attend up to three ‘conferences’. Assessment will continue throughout the course, based on your classroom experience and achievement measured against Teaching Standards, while your academic study will comprise of two academic assignments.
We are looking to appoint someone who:
1. is truly committed to making a difference to the life-chances of students
2. has been awarded or are on track to achieve a 2:2 Degree (Negotiable in exceptional cases)
3. is passionate about their subject
4. is committed to working as part of a team
5. is committed to continuous improvement
6. can demonstrate excellent organisational and inter-personal skills and the ability to contribute to a team
7. has experience working with children (not essential)
8. Please note that if you have qualifications from outside the UK, you’ll need to show that they’re the same standard as UK GCSEs and a UK bachelor’s degree. You can get a statement of comparability from UK ENIC to show the standard of your qualifications.
We offer:
9. Support and training that will lead to qualified teacher status (QTS).
10. Train to teach in disruption free classrooms, allowing you to focus on mastering the art of teaching.
11. Access to a well-resourced Chemistry curriculum that includes detailed resources that will heavily structure/scaffold your lesson planning.
12. Access to a dedicated mentor, with protected time each week, working closely with you as you develop as an effective classroom practitioner.
13. Training both online and face-to-face with United Teaching, with protected time one day a week to support you with this training
14. Access to regular, research based CPD opportunities that will allow you to build your knowledge of effective teaching & learning
15. Bespoke learning walks, with incremental and specific feedback to support your continued improvement
16. Support from our excellent behaviour and inclusion teams so you are equipped to support the individual needs of each student.
This in an outstanding opportunity to complete your training at a successful and rapidly improving academy. We are driven by a forward-thinking philosophy and a vibrant, positive culture. In a friendly and welcoming school with supportive colleagues, you'll be able to make a real impact on our academy, and on the lives of our children.
If you are looking for the next step in your career, and would like to find out more, please email Karen Wright (Principal) on email removed. She will arrange a visit or an informal call to talk about the role.
Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy early in light of a large response.
Due to the high volume of applications received, the school is unable to provide individual feedback on why an application is unsuccessful. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.
United Learning
Swindon Academy is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.
As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.
Safeguarding Statement
Swindon Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.