Teacher of Physics - Currie Community High School

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Teacher of Physics
Currie Community High School

Salary: £32,217 - £48,516
Hours: 35 per week

Currie Community High School is situated to the south west of the City of Edinburgh and serves the communities of Currie, Riccarton, Juniper Green and Baberton Mains.

The school has served the local community for some 350 years. The school enjoys excellent links with the local community and as a designated community high school, a quality community programme is offered. The school’s SQA results are above both local and national averages and an extensive range of wider achievement opportunities are offered.

Our school values of Ambition, Respect, Equality underpin our positive culture and ethos; where celebrating success of our wonderful young people is at the heart of what we do. We also recognise the importance of our school as a community and we have been recently awarded the Gold LGBT Charter Mark which we are very proud of. We are also working towards Rights Respecting School status and we hold a Silver Food For Life Catering award and Green Eco Schools status. We were also awarded Scotland’s Most Enterprising School in 2021.

We are very excited to be moving to a new school build early 2025 which will be the first Passivhaus school in Scotland. Our vision for the new school encompasses innovative and cutting edge pedagogy with the development of 21st Century ready skills at the core of all we do. The school will benefit from inspirational learning spaces and technology including high quality outdoor spaces to enable young people to become leaders of their own learning and to experience a broad, varied and bespoke curriculum.

Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

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