Salary: £31,650 - £49,084 (Pro rata £15,825 - £24,542)
Range: Main Pay Range or Upper Pay Range
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Contract Type: Part Time 0.5 FTE
Contract Term: Permanent
Suitable for ECT: Yes
Closing Date: Monday 19th May - Midday
Interview Date: TBC W/C Monday 19th May 2025
Wilmslow High School
School age range: 11-18
Number on roll: approx. 2,200 (including 500 sixth form)
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and energetic Teacher of History to join our thriving and highly regarded History Team.
This is an excellent opportunity to work with an exceptional team who have a well-structured curriculum, comprehensive resources and work collaboratively with the shared aim of creating the best learning opportunities for all. The team is highly professional, supportive of each other and place great importance on teamwork. It is a growing team with a desire to become even more integrated, with the belief that cross-curricular opportunities will only strengthen the learning experience for all our students.
The successful candidate will:
* The ability to teach history up to A Level
* Have a high degree of subject competency and personal organisation with a continuing personal interest in, and commitment to the study of history
* An innovative and progressive approach to curriculum development, working
* practice and teaching
* Demonstrate a real passion for education and a deep-felt desire to make a difference for young people.
* Have the resolve and tenacity to make a real difference to the performance of students.
* Demonstrate rigorous professionalism in everything, accepting nothing but the best in a culture of excellence.
* Have a willingness to embrace and promote the importance of History across all key stages.
* Be able to work with a team who are passionate about reaching all students with empathy and understanding.
If you would like to join a forward-thinking, research driven school committed to the pursuit of excellence and have the skills and tenacity to really make a difference for young people, we would welcome your application.
We offer a happy and caring environment rooted in our core values, in which staff and students can flourish, whilst challenging ourselves to pursue excellence for all our students. The school is set in extensive grounds, ideally positioned between the thriving city of Manchester and the open countryside of the Peak District.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process.
If invited for interview, you will be:
* asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
* subject to an online search. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore at interview.
If successful, you will be subject to:
* an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
* pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.
Current or previous employers will be contacted and information requested will include:
* Disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’
* Whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns