Teacher of Science

Salary: MPR/UPR including Fringe Area Allowance—Job type:
Full Time, Permanent.

Start date:

01 September 2026. Apply by: 2 March 2026.

Join Hazelwick – a popular, highly‑successful, and happy community where our students enjoy learning and teachers enjoy teaching, where Ofsted judged us to be outstanding in all areas (October 2023).

Our shared vision is “for each and every student to achieve their maximum potential.”

Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ October 2023.

Salary: £34,398 – £52,490 per annum; MPR/UPR including Fringe Area Allowance.

Hazelwick is a high‑achieving, oversubscribed 11‑18 mixed secondary school with over 1,900 students aged 11 to 18, including over 380 students in our Sixth Form.

As one of the highest performing schools in West Sussex, with a Progress 8 score of +0.30 (2024), we have an unwavering focus on enabling our students to achieve their maximum potential.

Hazelwick is an outstanding school. A summary of the key points from our 2022 and 2023 Ofsted reports highlight that Hazelwick is a school:

• Very successful, welcoming and ambitious
• Kind and caring, with remarkably strong relationships between staff and students
• Where you can see and feel the shared values of respect and responsibility in and out of lessons
• With a remarkable sense of community
• Staff have extremely high expectations
• Students behave impeccably
• Students from diverse backgrounds work extremely well together to achieve very high standards
• Confident learners who focus especially hard in lessons and use lesson time extremely well
• Students thrive and flourish
• Students achieve exceptionally well in national examinations
• A safe and inspiring place to learn
• The school motto “effort achieves” pervades all aspects of school life
• Staff at all levels speak very highly of the support and professional development they receive
• Staff love working

• Taught by a team of highly skilled, supportive and dedicated staff
• A popular KS5 option with 18 classes across the department and excellent results
• A supportive and collaborative staff team
• Fully committed to STEM and a wide range of co‑curricular activities

• A Science specialist teacher who has the experience and ability to teach KS3 and KS4. The ability to teach KS5 now or in the future is desirable. A level teaching will be available for a suitable candidate.
• A positive teacher who can enthuse, motivate and engage students and is committed to excellence and high student achievement.
• A teacher with a passion for working with young people and perseverance to make a difference to them and their future.
• A teacher with a focus on their own professional development and a drive to work with us to become the best teacher they can be.
• Applications from ECTs are welcome, who would benefit from our highly‑praised professional studies and support programme.
• Hazelwick School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and communicates a clear framework to employees. Safeguarding is a key aspect of every role and all staff must have read and be fully aware of the Child Protection Policy. This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

Visits to the school are welcome. Please email  to arrange a tour of the school or for further information about the post.

Please do not submit your application using the ‘Apply’ button on the TES. Please download and complete the application form, available in the Attached Documents section, listed as ‘Other Document’. Once completed, your application can be uploaded into your TES account or emailed to

Please contact  if you are not able to access the application form.

Please submit your completed application by 9am on Monday 2nd March 2026.

You are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible, as there may be occasions where we will close a vacancy earlier than published and interview once sufficient applications have been received.