Beaconsfield High School
Current Vacancies
You can view our current vacancies below. All enquiries should be directed to Laura Robinson via recruitment@beaconsfieldhigh.bucks.sch.uk. If you would like to find out more about us, you can arrange an informal visit with Laura via the email above.
Teacher of Physics
Appointment: September 2024
Salary: MPS/ UPS + Outer London Fringe Allowance
Contract type: Part-time/Full-time
Contract term: Permanent
Beaconsfield High School, an outstanding girls’ grammar school, has a rare opportunity for an energetic, highly motivated Teacher of Physics with vision and ambition to inspire and enthuse students to enhance their interest in Science. Our students all want to learn and are rapid learners – a dream come true!
We seek an outstanding candidate to maintain and build upon this record of success. The post requires the teaching across the Key Stages, inspiring and helping our students to enjoy the subject as much as possible. The Science Faculty is a strong team with a very good track record of examination success, and a large uptake at A Level.
We are open to ideas that inspire and help our students to enjoy the subject as much as possible. We want to recruit someone who puts students first, proactively focuses on the development, sharing and monitoring of best practice to help across the school so that our students have the best educational opportunities and positive school experience. This is in line with our vision of being a “Happy, high achieving learning community”.
As an extremely successful, outstanding selective school, we would welcome applications from candidates with experience of different learning environments. In return we can offer wonderful students with a thirst for learning, a determined staff team and supportive governors who work very hard with the school.
What do to next:
- Complete the application form and send a letter of no more than 2 sides of A4 saying why you feel your experience to date and your aspirations make you perfect for the role.
- For additional information, please contact Laura Robinson via recruitment@beaconsfieldhigh.bucks.sch.uk
Beaconsfield High School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all of its students and staff. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified teachers regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
Closing Date: Friday 19th April 2024, 9.00am
Interview Date: Tuesday 23rd April 2024 2024
| Teacher of Physics- Application Form | Teacher of Physics- Recruitment Booklet |
| Teacher of Physics- Job Description |
Teacher of Maths
Dates: Required for September 2024
Salary: MPS/ UPS + Outer London Fringe Allowance
Contract type: Full Time / Part Time
Contract term: Permanent
Beaconsfield High School, an outstanding girls’ grammar school, has a rare opportunity for an energetic, highly motivated Teacher of Mathematics with vision and ambition to inspire and enthuse students to enhance their interest in Mathematics. Our students all want to learn and are rapid learners – a dream come true!
We seek an outstanding candidate to maintain and build upon this record of success. The post requires the teaching across the Key Stages, inspiring and helping our students to enjoy the subject as much as possible. Mathematics is a strong department with a very good track record of examination success and full course allocation for A-Level.
We are open to ideas that inspire and help our students to enjoy the subject as much as possible. We want to recruit someone who puts students first, proactively focuses on the development, sharing and monitoring of best practice to help across the school so that our students have the best educational opportunities and positive school experience. This is in line with our vision of being a “Happy, high achieving learning community”.
As an extremely successful, outstanding selective school, we would welcome applications from candidates with experience of different learning environments. In return we can offer wonderful students with a thirst for learning, a determined staff team and supportive governors who work very hard with the school.
What do to next:
- Complete the application form and send a letter of no more than 2 sides of A4 saying why you feel your experience to date and your aspirations make you perfect for the role.
- For additional information, please contact Laura Robinson via recruitment@beaconsfieldhigh.bucks.sch.uk
Beaconsfield High School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all of its students and staff. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified teachers regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
Closing Date: 26th April 2024 at 9am
Interview Date: 30th April 2024
| Teacher of Maths- Application Form | Teacher of Maths- Person Specification |
| Teacher of Maths- Recruitment Booklet | Teacher of Maths- Job Description |
Learning Support Assistant (University Placement)
Dates: 1st September 2024
Salary: Bucks Pay scale 2.11-2.15: FTE. - £21,879 - £23,961 Actual salary - £17,558 - £19,229. (dependent on experience).
Contract type: 35 hours per week, Term time only (39 weeks), Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 16:00 (including a half hour unpaid lunch break)
Contract term: One-year fixed term contract
A rare opportunity has arisen to work within the support team of a prestigious and outstanding grammar school. Examination results continue to ensure that Beaconsfield High School is one of the leading schools in the UK.
We are looking for a pro-active and reliable Learning Support Assistant (‘LSA’) who will apply their own GCSE, A-Level and undergraduate degree level subject knowledge as well as their enthusiasm and creativity to support the progress and development of our students. The LSA will supervise our Learning Support classroom where students with varying learning difficulties as well as mental health requirements gather throughout the day. The LSA will also deliver tailored support to students across the curriculum but in particular in Psychology; a popular subject in our high achieving girls grammar school. The LSA will assist with revision and catch-up work either one-to-one or in small groups and will provide students with strategies to help them build their confidence and improve their organisational, executive and time management skills. They will also be a listening ear for individual students and help them with anything that may be worrying them and/or holding them back from achieving their individual academic objectives. The SLSA will be applying their subject knowledge both in providing academic support as well as in providing pastoral support.
Beaconsfield High School is an outstanding school and is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all of its students and staff. The successful will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
Please visit our website for further information or alternatively come and see us on an informal visit.
To arrange a visit, or for additional information, please contact Laura Robinson via recruitment@beaconsfieldhigh.bucks.sch.uk
If you feel you have the required skills and experience, please complete the application form and explain how your skills and experience to date meet the Job Description.
Closing Date: 29th April 2024
Interview Date: w/c 6th May 2024
| LSA (University Placement)- Application Form | LSA (University Placement)- Recruitment Booklet |
| LSA (University Placement)- Job Description |
Site Team Member
Start date: April 2024, dependent upon notice
Annual Salary: Bucks Pay Scale 2 (11-15) £21,879- £23,961 dependent on experience and qualifications this could be negotiable
Hours of work: 37 hours a week 52 weeks a year. Specific hours of work will be agreed with the site manager between the hours of 0700 to 1800 Monday to Friday. There will be no split shifts but you may be asked occasionally to work until 2100 to cover school events.
Beaconsfield High School is an outstanding grammar school in Buckinghamshire with over 1,200 students aged 11-18 and 150 staff. An opportunity has arisen for a Site Team Member to join our remarkable school on a permanent basis. This is a busy and interesting role working in a school environment which will include a range of duties connected with running and maintaining the site.
You will be joining an experienced and friendly site team helping to ensure that they meet all the needs of a busy site and will be well supported by the Site Manager and other school staff. The site team is responsible for ensuring that the site is safe and fit for purpose and that maintenance is carried out to buildings and grounds as required. They may also carry out or support small school improvement projects.
Reporting to the Facilities Manager, your main responsibilities will be:
- Undertake repairs and other works indicative with available skills
- On-going maintenance work
- Clean up spillages and keep the site tidy and clear of litter
- Lock and unlock the school
- Be available with to lockup after planned events with reasonable notice
- Ensure that alarms and non-automated heating and lighting is turned on and off as necessary
- To carry out internal and external porterage duties as required
- Prepare the school for internal and external functions and lettings
- Supervise Contractors with direction from the Facilities Manager
The right person for this role should ideally:
- Enjoy practical, physical work which will include some lifting and bending
- Be willing to work flexible hours, including on occasion, evenings and weekends
- Have a ‘can do’ attitude with a flexible and positive mind set
- Be able to work independently and self-manage workload whilst also happy to work with others as part of a team.
- Have basic knowledge of required H&S standards
- Be reliable and committed to the job
- Be organised and able to meet deadlines
- Have good communication skills
- Be committed to the school’s ethos and high expectations
Every member of staff is expected to show respect to their colleagues and to understand and adhere to the School’s value of dignity at work. Training will be available where appropriate but previous experience and trade qualifications will be an advantage.
Closing Date: 26th April 2024
Interviews: w/c 29th April 2024
Applications: Please contact us on recruitment@beaconsfieldhigh.bucks.sch.uk if you would like an informal conversation or would like to look around the school. To apply for the role, please complete the attached application form.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this.
This post will be subject to references and an enhanced DBS check.
| Site Team Member- Application Form | Site Team Member- Recruitment Booklet |
| Site Team Member- Job Description | Site Team Member- Person Specification |
Assistant Headteacher
Salary: Competitive (including Outer London Fringe Allowance)
Job type: Permanent, Full Time or Part Time
Start date: September 2024
Apply by: 25 April 2024
This is an opportunity to join a school where staff and students love learning and working together. We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher to join our Senior Leadership Team and help us to shape the future of this successful and happy school community. Our leadership team endeavours to focus on holistic wellbeing as a priority, inspiring a culture of inclusiveness, emotional intelligence and safety. We want staff to feel valued, supported and challenged, to be creative and ambitious in their contribution to our learning community.
Beaconsfield High School wishes to appoint an inspirational and dynamic Assistant Headteacher who will work with colleagues on the academic side of the SLT (rather than the pastoral side). We are looking for a candidate who has a track record of positive impact on the people and systems around them. While we welcome applications from all, we are particularly interested in hearing from those who teach Science, Maths or English.
The exact nature of the role and responsibilities will be confirmed with the successful candidate, according to their experience and expertise. The role will sit on the academic side of the Senior Leadership Team, and may include responsibilities such as Assessment and Reporting, Learning and Teaching, Digital Strategy, Student Progress, Curriculum Development, Professional Development. You will play a key role in the leadership of our remarkable school, which prides itself as much on being happy as being successful. Please note that the job description included in the application pack includes a range of possible areas of responsibility.
We can boast wonderful students with a thirst for learning and a desire to embrace the wider opportunities available to them at school. We achieve exceptional academic results each year. This year we ranked 7th in The Times’ best secondary and grammar schools in the southeast. Our staff are collaborative and support each other to be their best; it is difficult to say whether the best thing about working here is the students or the staff!
The successful candidate will:
- be a graduate with qualified teacher status;
- have held a middle leadership or leadership role and supported whole school improvement;
- combine resilience and determination with an ability to inspire, innovate and motivate colleagues and students;
- have knowledge of the powerful impact of data on informing and improving progress;
- have the ability to teach at a ‘good’ or better level consistently.
Why work with us at Beaconsfield High School?
- We are a genuinely happy learning community;
- Our students are engaged, self-motivated, and enjoy their lessons;
- The school is located in beautiful Beaconsfield Old Town, within The Chilterns (designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty);
- We benefit from London Fringe Allowance and the Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- We have a team of specialist and committed teachers and a highly effective SEND team;
- We are a welcoming and supportive staff team who enjoy social occasions together like cakes at break time and end of year social events;
- Health Assured employee assistance programme;
- We are never complacent, and committed to continually improving;
- We are committed to the induction and professional development of all staff, and have a genuinely developmental Professional Development Process (appraisal).
To apply, please complete the application form. Your covering letter/support of application statement should explain, in no more than two A4 sides, how your experience to date has prepared you for this role.
The closing date is Thursday 25 April (midday). Interviews will take place on 30th April and 1st May.
Please send your application form via email to Laura Robinson at recruitment@beaconsfieldhigh.bucks.sch.uk
| Assistant Headteacher- Application Form | Assistant Headteacher- Person Specification |
| Assistant Headteacher- Job Description | Assistant Headteacher- Recruitment Booklet |
PE Administrator/ Technician
PHYSICAL EDUCATION TECHNICIAN / ADMINISTRATOR with possible extra-curricular coaching hours available.
Required for: September 2024
Salary: Bucks Pay Scale 2.11-2.15: Actual salary £10-268 - £11,127 (FTE £24,879 - £26,961)
Contract type: Term time only (39 weeks per year)
Contract term: Part time
Working hours: 9.00am – 3.30pm 3 days per week
Beaconsfield High School, an outstanding girls’ grammar school, has an opportunity for an individual with vision and ambition to support the delivery and help co-ordinate a comprehensive school programme of high-quality learning in PE lessons and clubs.
It may be that you want to come and see for yourself. If so, we are very happy to welcome you and show you for yourself. We recognise this is a busy time of the year and so understand if this is not possible. We will provide a tour by our students when you are invited for interview.
Beaconsfield High School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all of its students and staff. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified teachers regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
To arrange a visit, or for additional information, please contact Laura Robinson via recruitment@beaconsfieldhigh.bucks.sch.uk
Open deadline for applications- applicants will be interviewed near to the receipt of their application
| PE Administrator /Technician- Job Description | PE Administrator/ Technician- Recruitment Booklet |
| PE Administrator/ Technician- Application Form |
Netball Coach
NETBALL COACH (self-employed)
Required for: September 2024
Salary: Up to £30 per hour (Dependent on coaching experience/qualifications)
Hours: 6-10 hours per week, days of week flexible Monday-Friday afternoons
Contract: September 2024 – March 2025, term time only.
Beaconsfield High School, an outstanding girls’ Grammar School in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, has an opportunity for an individual with vision and ambition to inspire and enthuse students in Netball.
The school has approximately 1100 students from Year 7 to 6th Form. Sport thrives at BHS, with many girls taking the opportunity to take part in the extensive extracurricular program that we offer. Our ‘premier’ sports are Netball & Hockey, and we have a strong history with both sports. We have 3 outdoor Netball courts, an AstroTurf and a full-size Sports Hall for Indoor Hockey & Netball. We are continuously investing in new equipment to improve the provision for our athletes, and we now want to add high-quality coaches to Team BHS.
Beaconsfield High School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all of its students and staff. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
To arrange a visit, or for additional information, please contact Laura Robinson via Recrutiment@beaconsfieldhighschool.bucks.sch.uk
Open deadline for applications - applicants will be interviewed near to the receipt of their application.
| Netball Coach- Application Form | Netball Coach- Job Description |
HR and Recruitment Officer (Maternity Cover)
Start Dates: May / June 2024
Salary: Bucks Pay Scale 5-6 -FTE £32,192 - £38,715 (Actual salary based on 4 days per week, 42 weeks per year £23,961 - £29,055). Salary dependent on experience.
Contract type: 30 hours (across 4 or 5 days per week) – Flexible working and Full Time would be considered for the right candidate
Contract term: Maternity cover (12 months fixed term contract)
A rare opportunity has arisen to work within the support team of a prestigious and outstanding grammar school. Examination results continue to ensure that Beaconsfield High School is one of the leading schools in the UK.
The HR and Recruitment Officer is a pro-active role providing high quality, efficient HR service for the school. This is a customer-focused role to provide high volume and fast-paced effective administrative support across the HR function with particular focus on recruitment administration, employee records, absence recording, and operational HR administration.
You will be proactive and able to work independently with minimal supervision, whilst being able to identify opportunities to support the wider team when needed. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and adaptable person to play a vital role in a dedicated team of staff.
Beaconsfield High School is an outstanding school and is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all of its students and staff. The successful will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
Please visit our website for further information or alternatively come and see us on an informal visit.
To arrange a visit, or for additional information, please contact Laura Robinson via recruitment@beaconsfieldhigh.bucks.sch.uk
If you feel you have the required skills and experience, please complete the application form and explain how your skills and experience to date meet the Job Description. Please sent the completed application to recruitment@beaconsfieldhigh.bucks.sch.uk
- Closing Date: 7th May 2024 9am
- Interview Date: 9th May 2024
| HR and Recruitment Officer- Application Form | HR and Recruitment Officer- Job Description |
| HR and Recruitment Officer- Recruitment Booklet |