Teacher of Maths

About the job

Key information

Required from April 2026
Applications welcome from ECTs as well as experienced colleagues
Required to teach KS3/4 – Ability to teach A-Level would be an advantage.

If you have a determination to be exceptional in all that you do and have an unrelenting commitment to making a difference to young people’s lives we would love to hear from you!

What will I be doing?

We are seeking an innovative and inspirational Maths Teacher to join our dedicated team. The team is supportive and passionate about collaboration and sharing good practice. It is important that you have an unrelenting commitment to ensuring that all students reach their full potential and are inspired to learn independently. The successful candidate will be an outstanding teacher, have a passion for learning and a tireless commitment to challenging and inspiring
students to maximise their achievement.

We would welcome applications from exceptional newly qualified teachers looking to start their careers within a supportive community, and also from experienced colleagues.

• Plan lessons with clear and shared objectives, which contribute to the coverage of the National Curriculum, course requirements and examination specification, and are consistent with school development priorities in accordance with Health & Safety requirements;
• Lead, manage and control course provision within the department, including effective allocation of staff and physical resources;
• Deliver lessons which engage and allow all individuals and groups of students to make good progress;
• Trial and carry out relevant practical work to engage students and enhance teaching and learning.
• Plan and evaluate an approach to homework within the department which offers students the opportunity to reinforce, extend and enhance the quality of their work;
• Use a range of assessment strategies, both formative and summative, to help students understand what they need to do to improve their work and set targets;
• Pay particular attention to how the assessment of the work of students with Additional Educational Needs relates to targets set in individual education plans
• Set high expectations for all students, and a level of challenge appropriate to students of different abilities in order to ensure that teaching is targeted at the student’s stage of learning, and moves them on;
• Make clear the importance of application, accuracy and good presentation, and provide opportunities for students to take increasing responsibility for their own work;
• Use methods and strategies which have careful regard to the curricular objectives being pursued, and determine whether these are best achieved by students working alone, in pairs, in small groups, or all together;
• Keep up to date with subject knowledge, including inspection reports, research findings, and undertake In-service Training as appropriate to the priorities of the school, the department, and personal professional development.
• Make effective use of time and resources, including the use of regular homework to reinforce and extend what students learn in school;
• Assess, record and report on students’ work thoroughly and constructively, and using assessment and performance data to inform teaching and learning and to set targets for improvement;
• Ensure that the fabric and resources of the classroom, including displays, are well maintained and ensuring that relevant Health and Safety regulations are observed.
• Contribute to the wider development of students in your care through work as a tutor, including registration, coding of absence, guidance and support, contact with parents and other subject teachers as required.
• Contribute, as a class teacher and tutor, by planning and delivering, as appropriate, opportunities for students to be healthy; safe; enjoy and achieve; make a positive contribution; and achieve economic wellbeing.
• Take responsibility for own personal development liaising with both the senior team line manager and the person responsible for CPD if different
• Is responsible to the Headteacher in all matters and to the Head of Department in respect of curricular matters;
• Interacts on a professional level with all colleagues and seeks to establish and maintain productive relationships with them and in particular with other members of their department;
• Fosters positive relationships with students and their parents in order to promote their understanding of their subject in the curriculum and to develop a genuine working partnership in pursuit of the aims of the school;
• Attends SLT and Governors’ meetings as required for monitoring and accountability purposes;
• Safeguards and promotes the welfare of students and work with the designated Child Protection Person to:
• Identify and record any child protection concerns
• Contribute information as required for Common Assessment or Multi-Agency meetings
• Act at all times in line with the school’s Child Protection procedures.

What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?

Meet the professional standards for post threshold teachers as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document and the Teachers’ Standards.

•  Contribute significantly, where appropriate, to implementing workplace policies and practice and to promote collective responsibility for their implementation.
• Have an extensive knowledge and understanding of how to use and adapt a range of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies, including how to personalise learning to provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential and maximising the use and impact of whole school development strategies in Teaching and Learning.
• Have an extensive knowledge and well-informed understanding of the assessment requirements and arrangements for the subjects/curriculum areas you teach, including those related to public examinations and qualifications.
• Have up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the different types of qualifications and specifications and their suitability for meeting learners’ needs.
• Have a more developed knowledge and understanding of your subjects/curriculum areas than a MPS teacher and how to use resources and strategies to accelerate learning and progress.
• Have sufficient depth of knowledge and experience to be able to give advice to colleagues on the development and well-being of children and young people.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to other teachers, give advice to them and demonstrate to them effective teaching practice in order to help them meet the relevant standards and develop their teaching practice

DBS check

DBS Check required

Supporting documents and information

We are a caring community and were proud to be voted by Ofsted as the ‘happiest school in Somerset in 2025’.

Our students are a delight to teach: they are articulate, hardworking, well-motivated and display our 7 core values in the way that they treat each other. We pride ourselves on our positive staff/student relationships. Sexey’s School has a strong team of staff who are caring, supportive and working with a ‘determination to be exceptional in all that we do’.

Visits to the school and Trust are welcomed and encouraged.
Please contact qetrecruitment@quantockedtrust.co.uk for an appointment

Early applications are strongly encouraged and we reserve the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an
appropriate candidate before the above dates.

The Quantock Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We welcome applications from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

The advertised post is subject to a teaching and learning observation interview, an enhanced DBS check References, Right to Work in the UK, online searches and other pre-employment checks.

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