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• Closing date for applications: Monday 31 March 2025
• Employer: Foundation

Teacher of Geography

Hours: full time

• Are you a dedicated teacher who delivers innovative, motivating lessons?
• Are you committed to driving up standards and ensuring that all students are challenged to reach their maximum potential?
• Would you like to live and work in one of the most beautiful areas of the UK, teaching keen and dedicated students in a school with high ambitions for all?

Then we would welcome an application to join our successful and dynamic Geography Department. This permanent, full-time post will start 1 September 2025. We are happy to consider part time or job share depending on your needs.

Our successful candidate will be a confident, motivated teacher with an uncompromising commitment to student achievement and the ability to engage all learners. This is a great opportunity for either an early career or an experienced teacher to work in a friendly, dynamic environment and to play a full and active role in the continual development of high-quality geography teaching and learning.

Geography at Ullswater Community College is a high-achieving department, with many students progressing to study the subject in the sixth form and regularly going on to related courses at university.

If successful, you will teach Geography across the range of abilities and at all key stages. Prior experience of teaching Key Stage 5 – along with the ability to teach another humanities subject – would be welcome but is not essential.

UCC is a happy school, where students and teachers expect to treat one another with respect. We are a larger than average 11–18 comprehensive school serving the biggest catchment area in England. We received an Ofsted Good rating in April 2023 and were recognised as ‘Best Secondary School in Cumbria’ at the annual NewsQuest Educational awards in October 2023. We’re intensely ambitious for our students, care deeply about all aspects of their success and value everyone’s unique differences. Our vision is to ensure that UCC is ‘best in county’ in all we do.

• A welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter – our Staff Wellbeing group is an integral part of the school culture.
• An outstanding programme of continuing professional development at all levels, which provides opportunities to develop the skills and qualities to progress your career.
• An excellent ECT programme, which is supportive and professionally run.
• A committed, supportive and approachable senior leadership team with a clear vision for raising standards and maintaining a responsive and professional working environment.
• Membership of the Health Assured employee assistance programme.
• Cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme.

We invest heavily in staff development, consider the well-being of colleagues in every development and encourage staff to be fully involved in whole-school and departmental learning initiatives.

We also pride ourselves on our fantastic students and curriculum offer. Our strong pastoral system is organised on a horizontal basis and most teachers are Form Tutors, in which important aspect of their work they are led and supported by Leaders of Achievement and Success.

This is an exciting time to be joining us – we are part of the school rebuilding programme and anticipate a significant investment or new build in the very near future. UCC is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified teachers and early careers teachers (ECTs).

We welcome applications using either the TES application procedure or our own application form. This can be downloaded from our website, where full job details and comprehensive information about the school can also be found. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any queries (hr@ullswatercc.co.uk).

We encourage applications from all members of society, regardless of background, gender, ethnicity, disability or age (as long as you're over 18). Please note that we do not hold a Home Office sponsor licence.

UCC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Employment at UCC is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed; if they are disclosed, the school cannot take them into account.

Please be aware that we may perform an online search if you accept an invitation to interview.

Closing date for applications: 9.00 am Monday 31 March 2025. Interviews will be held Thursday 3 April 2025.

Please note that we can contact only the successful applicants.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if a suitable candidate is found.

Ullswater Community College
Wetheriggs Lane
Penrith
CA11 8NG