As a successful Expressive and Performing Arts Faculty, we are seeking an innovative, highly effective, and inspirational full time Drama teacher to join us commencing in April 2026 or September 2026. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a thriving department committed to excellence in Arts education. An April start would be preferred but we will consider September start for the right candidate.

Brighton Hill Community School has been rated as ‘Good’ with Outstanding in three of the four Ofsted categories. We are a coeducational 11-16 Community School with over 1250 students. The successful candidate will teach across KS3 and KS4 as a member of the Expressive and Performing Arts Faculty. You will be able to demonstrate a range of abilities and aspirations to make a significant and positive contribution to the vision of the school and faculty.

The successful candidate will be:

• An excellent classroom practitioner.
• Able to demonstrate success in teaching Key Stages 3 and 4 to students of all abilities.
• Committed to securing exceptional outcomes for all learners.
• Able to create a stimulating learning environment to promote exceptional progress.
• Passionate about teaching and learning and your own professional development.
• Dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of student behaviour.
• Skilled in analysing data to inform and improve student progress.
• Able to make a significant contribution to the development of the Expressive and Performing Arts Faculty.
• Willing to play a significant role in the development and organisation of extracurricular and enrichment opportunities for students within the Expressive and Performing Arts Faculty.

Why apply to work at Brighton Hill Community School?

Exceptional support from the Expressive and Performing Arts faculty and the Senior Leadership Team.

• "The drive to continually improve the school is relentless. Leaders and governors constantly focus on their vision of ‘making success inevitable." (Ofsted April ‘22)
• "Staff praise the work of leaders and say they are proud of the school. Staff explained that the effective professional development they receive results in continuing improvements to pupils’ learning and pastoral care." (Ofsted ‘22)
• "Lessons are calm and focused. When asking pupils about this, one simply explained, ‘It’s how we do it here."(Ofsted ‘22)
• "The quality of education Good
  Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding
  Personal development Outstanding
  Leadership and management Outstanding"(Ofsted ‘22)
• Support to be innovative and develop your professional skills, with our bespoke and expansive CPD programme.
• Benefit from our alliance with the Teaching School and to collaborate with colleagues.
• Opportunities to contribute towards the planning and delivery of Drama.
• Work within an established team who are highly resourced and have a strong sense of collaboration and support for each other as a team.
• Benefit from our accomplished delivery of the ECF programme as a local delivery provider.
• Opportunities to contribute to an extensive extra-curricular programme for students.

If you are an enthusiastic and committed teacher with the desire to make a real difference for our students, we would like to hear from you.

For full details and an application form, please visit our website: www.brightonhill.org

Alternatively, email Shanade Bedwell, HR Officer sbedwell@bhcs.sfet.org.uk

Please note CVs will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications: 05 February 2026

We are committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to DBS and other employment checks

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Due to rapidly increasing student numbers, we are seeking an innovative, highly effective and inspirational full time Teacher of Maths. A recruitment allowance will be considered for an appropriately experienced teacher who has the right skills and attributes. We will consider immediate and September 2026 start dates for suitable candidates.

Brighton Hill Community School has been rated as ‘Good’ with Outstanding in three of the four Ofsted categories. We are a rapidly growing coeducational 11-16 Community School with over 1250 students. The successful candidate will teach across KS3 and KS4 as a member of the Maths Faculty. You will be able to demonstrate a range of abilities and aspirations to make a significant and positive contribution to the vision of the school and faculty.

The successful candidate will be:

• An excellent and ambitious classroom practitioner
• Committed to achieving the very best outcomes for our students
• Able to create a stimulating learning environment to promote exceptional progress
• Passionate about teaching and learning and your own professional development
• Be reflective and willing to progress and take on ideas and current educational practice.
• Able to make a significant contribution to the development of Maths and work with an aspirational and innovative team of colleagues.

Why apply to work at Brighton Hill Community School?

• Exceptional support from the Faculty and the Senior Leadership Team.
• “The drive to continually improve the school is relentless. Leaders and governors constantly focus on their vision of ‘making success inevitable.” (Ofsted April ‘22)
• “Staff praise the work of leaders and say they are proud of the school. Staff explained that the effective professional development they receive results in continuing improvements to pupils’ learning and pastoral care.” (Ofsted ‘22)
• “Lessons are calm and focused. When asking pupils about this, one simply explained, ‘It’s how we do it here. “(Ofsted ‘22)
• The quality of education Good
  Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding
  Personal development Outstanding
  Leadership and management Outstanding
  “(Ofsted ‘22)
• Support to be innovative and develop your professional skills, with our bespoke and expansive CPD programme.
• Benefit from our alliance with the Teaching School and to collaborate with colleagues.
• Opportunities to contribute towards the planning and delivery of Maths.
• Work within an established team who are highly resourced and have a strong sense of collaboration and support for each other as a team.
• Benefit from our accomplished delivery of the ECF programme as a local delivery provider.
• Opportunities to contribute to an extensive extra-curricular programme for students.

If you are an enthusiastic and committed teacher with the desire to make a real difference for our students, we would like to hear from you.

For full details and an application form, please visit our website: www.brightonhill.org

Alternatively, email Shanade Bedwell, HR Officer sbedwell@bhcs.sfet.org.uk

Please note CVs will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications: Monday 02 February 2026

We are committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to DBS and other employment checks

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We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to train to teach Chemistry or Physics with us at Brighton Hill Community School, in partnership with South Farnham Education Trust (SFET) Teaching Hub via the apprenticeship route.

Brighton Hill Community School has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted and is a rapidly growing coeducational 11-16 Community School with approximately 1300 students. 

Our Science faculty is a highly ambitious and well-established team comprising teachers that are passionate about their subject and driven to support every student to make success inevitable. The faculty is well led and there are several experienced mentors who have a proven track record of offering excellent developmental support to trainees, helping to facilitate the best start to their teaching career.

The successful candidate will:

• Be passionate about teaching, receptive to feedback and eager to learn
• Be committed to achieving the very best outcomes for our students
• Be willing to make a significant contribution to the development of the Science Faculty
• Have experience of working with children or in a school setting
• Hold a degree in Chemistry, Physics or a related subject

Why apply to work and train at Brighton Hill Community School?

• High quality support from the Senior Leadership Team and the Science faculty which has a well-resourced curriculum with detailed resources to support your lesson planning
• A clear vision for Teaching and Learning and Curriculum which embraces current research and creative practice
• Support and training that will lead to qualified teacher status (QTS)
• A dedicated mentor, with protected time each week, working closely with you to support your development as an effective classroom practitioner
• Training both face-to-face and online with SFET, with protected time one day a week to support you with this training
• Access to weekly CPD sessions that will allow you to build your knowledge of effective teaching and learning and which complement and deepen your learning from the SFET programme
• Bespoke support from in-school subject specialists including our SEND, student wellbeing and behaviour and inclusion teams so you are equipped to support the individual needs of each student
• A robust and supportive programme to support Early Career Teachers once QTS is achieved
• “Leaders and governors constantly focus on their vision of ‘making success inevitable’”. (Ofsted)
• “Lessons are calm and focused. When asking pupils about this, one simply explained, ‘It’s how we do it here.’” (Ofsted)
• The chance to be part of a dedicated team committed to improving outcomes for our students, who “are eager to explain why they believe that Brighton Hill is such a special school.”  (Ofsted)

If you are enthusiastic, have experience of working with children or in a school setting and have a passion to make a real difference for our students, we would like to hear from you. 

For full details and an application form, please visit our website: www.brightonhill.hants.sch.uk.  Alternatively, telephone Shanade Bedwell, our HR Officer on 01256 362532 or email: sbedwell@brightonhill.hants.sch.uk

Please note CVs will not be accepted. 

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 11th February 2026

We are committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment.  The successful candidate will be subject to DBS and other employment checks

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We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to train to teach Computing with us at Brighton Hill Community School, in partnership with South Farnham Education Trust (SFET) Teaching Hub via the apprenticeship route.

Brighton Hill Community School has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted and is a rapidly growing coeducational 11-16 Community School with approximately 1300 students.

Our Enterprise and Digital Technology (EDT) faculty is a highly ambitious team comprising teachers that are passionate about their subject and driven to support every student to make success inevitable. The faculty is well led with an experienced mentor who has a proven track record of offering excellent developmental support to trainees, helping to facilitate the best start to their teaching career.

The successful candidate will:

• Be passionate about teaching, receptive to feedback and eager to learn
• Be committed to achieving the very best outcomes for our students
• Be willing to make a significant contribution to the development of the EDT Faculty
• Have experience of working with children or in a school setting
• Hold a degree in Computer Science or a related subject

Why apply to work and train at Brighton Hill Community School?

• High quality support from the Senior Leadership Team and the EDT faculty which has a well-resourced curriculum with detailed resources to support your lesson planning
• A clear vision for Teaching and Learning and Curriculum which embraces current research and creative practice
• Support and training that will lead to qualified teacher status (QTS)
• A dedicated mentor, with protected time each week, working closely with you to support your development as an effective classroom practitioner
• Training both face-to-face and online with SFET, with protected time one day a week to support you with this training
• Access to weekly CPD sessions that will allow you to build your knowledge of effective teaching and learning and which complement and deepen your learning from the SFET programme
• Bespoke support from in-school subject specialists including our SEND, student wellbeing and behaviour and inclusion teams so you are equipped to support the individual needs of each student
• A robust and supportive programme to support Early Career Teachers once QTS is achieved
• “Leaders and governors constantly focus on their vision of ‘making success inevitable’”. (Ofsted)
• “Lessons are calm and focused. When asking pupils about this, one simply explained, ‘It’s how we do it here.’” (Ofsted)
• The chance to be part of a dedicated team committed to improving outcomes for our students, who “are eager to explain why they believe that Brighton Hill is such a special school.” (Ofsted)

If you are enthusiastic, have experience of working with children or in a school setting and have a passion to make a real difference for our students, we would like to hear from you.

For full details and an application form, please visit our website: www.brightonhill.hants.sch.uk. Alternatively, telephone Shanade Bedwell, our HR Officer on 01256 362532 or email: sbedwell@brightonhill.hants.sch.uk

Please note CVs will not be accepted.

We are committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to DBS and other employment checks

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Location:

• 2 days per week at The Blue Coat School, Basingstoke
• 2 days per week at Brighton Hill Community High School, Basingstoke
• 1 day per week at South Farnham Educational Trust Central Office (South Farnham School)

Salary: Competitive, based on experience

Contract: Full-time, permanent

About the Role
South Farnham Educational Trust (SFET) is seeking an experienced and dynamic Secondary School HR Manager to lead and coordinate HR operations across two secondary schools within our Trust. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to work in a multi-site capacity, ensuring consistent, compliant, and high-quality HR practices across both schools while supporting the Trust’s strategic HR initiatives.

As a key member of the HR leadership team, you will:

• Provide day-to-day leadership and guidance to HR Officers at both schools.
• Act as the lead HR contact for secondary schools, ensuring alignment with Trust-wide policies.
• Manage recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, and compliance processes across both sites.
• Support the HR Director in delivering strategic HR projects and workforce planning.

 About You

We are looking for someone who:

• Has proven HR experience, ideally within an education setting.
• Holds a relevant HR qualification (CIPD Level 5 or equivalent).
• Can confidently manage HR operations across multiple sites.
• Demonstrates strong leadership, coaching, and relationship-building skills.
• Is highly organised, resilient, and committed to safeguarding and compliance.

 Why Join Us?

SFET is a thriving Multi Academy Trust with a strong commitment to excellence and collaboration. You will be part of a forward-thinking team that values professional development and innovation in HR practice.

 Key Statistics:

• 11 schools (primary & secondary)
• 5021 pupils
• 669 employees
• 864 ECTs being trained/assessed
• 201 trainee teachers

 Interested?

For more information, please visit our website and view our careers brochure. Visits to the Trust and our schools are warmly welcomed, please contact HR Director, Amrit Growan, to arrange a visit.

South Farnham Educational Trust - Vacancies

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a strong response, so early applications are encouraged.

Safer Recruitment

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.

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