About the job

Key information

• Salary: Mainscale
• Start date: September 2025
• Contract term: Permanent
• Contract type: Full Time
• Suitable for ECTs: Yes

We are an 11-16 Academy in Somerset, serving the town of Yeovil and the surrounding villages. Westfield is an oversubscribed and successful school with a good reputation. Student numbers have increased leading to the need for this post and applications for places are set to continue to grow significantly over the next few years.

This is due to our reputation as a child centred organisation that has exemplary behaviour and an unmatched pastoral system that puts  the welfare of students and staff at its core.

What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?

We are looking for people with:

• A passion for learning and teaching and an ambition to develop their own practice
• The ability to inspire students to attain the highest possible outcomes

What is in it for me?

We can offer you:

• A chromebook for each member of the teaching staff
• A committed and supportive leadership team, teaching and support staff
• A stable and caring school community with well behaved, motivated and delightful students
• A school that is financially stable and well-managed
• A pleasant, green site with outstanding facilities
• A school that has teachers professional autonomy as a key priority.
• A strong vibrant staff social ethos for example with a staff choir, staff steel pan band, five a side football

We can offer you a substantial CPD programme with 7 inset days and including the option to have part of your timetable teaching A-Level at Yeovil College that is located a few hundred metres away.

DBS check

Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, including the barred list, as well as other pre-appointment checks outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2024).

Supporting documents and information

Westfield Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

For further details please follow the links below and visit our website, or contact the Headteacher’s PA, Mrs Lisa Jeffreys, tel: 01935 446851, email: lisa.jeffreys@westfieldacademy.co.uk.

The deadline for applications is Monday 13 January 2025 at 09:00am.

Interviews will take place on either Thursday 16 or Friday 17 January 2025.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by 5:00pm on Monday 13 January 2025.

Application Pack

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