Sir Charles Parsons School
Westbourne Avenue
Walker
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE6 4ED

Fixed term until 16th July 2027.

Sir Charles Parsons School is a secondary school (11 - 19) catering for students who experience significant and profound learning difficulties. This includes students whose behaviors may at times challenge those supporting them. The school was judged by Ofsted to be an ‘outstanding school’ after its last five inspections in October 2006, June 2010, March 2015, January 2019 and July 2024.

Due to the school’s continued growth and increasing student numbers we are looking to appoint to a number of teaching positions in a range of subjects, specifically, Science, PE and Literacy. Post-holders will have pastoral responsibility for a class of students but will teach to students of all ages across the school. Start date will be September 2026.

Candidates should be:

excellent classroom practitioners
enthusiastic and keen to support and develop new initiatives;
able to work effectively as a member of a team with educational and other professionals, both from within and outside the school;
committed to improving the provision offered to our students through rigorous professional self review and development; and;
resilient and able to focus on finding solutions to the issues and problems experienced in any school.

Successful applicants will join a school:

with a friendly, supportive team ethos;
that provides excellent professional development opportunities;
which is dynamic, forward looking and constantly challenging itself to further improve the quality of provision it provides.

The school is strongly committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. All posts are subject to enhanced disclosure and barring service checks. We expect all adults to share our commitment to safeguarding and the health and wellbeing of our students and staff.

As a disability confident employer, we are committed to employing disabled people and people with health conditions making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants when required.

Application forms are downloadable from the school’s website at www.scp.newcastle.sch.uk or available from and returnable to Mrs. Deborah Lant, School Business Manager at deborah.lant@scp.newcastle.sch.uk or telephone number 0191 2952280.

Closing Date: Friday 22nd May 2026 at 12 (noon)

Interviews to be held week commencing 8th June 2026