Science Teacher | Co-Educational Comprehensive Academy |Cambridge

CORE PURPOSE We require an ambitious, intellectually rigorous Science Teacher to deliver high-quality scientific instruction across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. The role involves facilitating a challenging, enquiry-led academic curriculum that deepens empirical reasoning, practical laboratory mastery, and conceptual understanding across Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, preparing pupils thoroughly for terminal public examinations and future STEM pathways. KEY TASKS & DAILY OPERATIONS Curriculum Design & Instruction: Plan, resource, and deliver highly structured, evidence-based science lessons that engage and challenge pupils across all academic profiles. Laboratory Leadership & Safety: Coordinate and execute safe, engaging practical experiments, ensuring pupils master foundational scientific methodologies, equipment handling, and rigorous lab safety protocols. Academic Progress Monitoring: Implement systematic formative and summative assessment routines, utilising pupil tracking data to design sharp, targeted interventions that bridge learning gaps. Examination Preparation: Guide Key Stage 4 cohorts systematically through the demands of terminal GCSE Combined Science or Separate Sciences specifications, maximising progress and attainment outcomes. Pastoral Care Integration: Undertake full form tutor responsibilities, managing daily registration, monitoring pupil attendance, and delivering the school's structured personal development units. ENVIRONMENT & STRUCTURE Academy Framework: Operating within a forward-thinking multi-academy trust, our school combines a robust, data-led approach to student progress with extensive professional development networks, providing collaborative department planning and structured pathways designed to accelerate teacher growth. Behaviour Systems: The campus implements highly consistent, school-wide behaviour routines that maintain a quiet, respectful, and orderly atmosphere, ensuring science laboratories remain calm, predictable, and entirely optimised for safe practical work. PROFILE REQUIREMENTS Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or an equivalent recognised teaching credential, paired with a strong honours degree in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or a closely related scientific discipline. Pedagogical Capability: A proven track record or clear capacity to deliver strong progress outcomes in terminal public examinations through explicit, highly engaging scientific pedagogy. Routine Implementation: The ability to execute school behaviour and health and safety policies with absolute consistency, maintaining a positive, highly focused, and strictly disciplined workshop and laboratory culture. REGIONAL CONTEXT Silicon Fen & Global Academic Excellence: Based in the historic university city of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, the school operates within a world-renowned centre of academic brilliance and cutting-edge industrial innovation, celebrated for its global biotech, technology, and research sectors. Connectivity: The area offers premier East of England transit infrastructure, providing seamless travel via major regional routes including the M11 motorway and A14 corridors, alongside exceptional rail operations running smoothly through Cambridge and Cambridge North stations—offering frequent, rapid Greater Anglia and Great Northern services straight to London King's Cross, London Liverpool Street, Stansted Airport, and Ely. APPLICATION INTAKE Please submit your current CV to begin the application process.