Teacher of Religious Education

Apply by: Monday 23rd June (12.00pm)

Start date: Autumn Term 2025

Salary: UNQ/ MPS / UPS (+ NST payment £600)

Location: 152 Syon Lane, Isleworth, TW7 5PN

Contract type: Full-time

Contract term: Permanent

School Size: 1400 pupils

Do you want to work at an ambitious school with bright, well-behaved, and engaged learners? Are you interested in helping students gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and talented Teacher of Religious Education to play a key role in shaping the curriculum of our outstanding, multifaith school.

This role would suit an experienced teacher, middle leader, or an individual with experience of senior leadership within a school. Unique features of this role include:

• The chance to build upon the school’s first set of A level results in August 2025.
• The opportunity to work in one of the top-performing all-through schools in England.
• A bespoke CPD package relevant to the successful candidate’s career stage.

Nishkam School West London is a flagship school for our Trust, offering all-through provision on an expansive 11-acre green site. Our students are bright, diligent, and well-mannered. The school achieved an Attainment 8 score of 61 and a Progress 8 score of 0.91 in the 2023/24 academic year. Our Progress 8 for disadvantaged students placed us 27th in the country for 2023/24. The school achieved an outstanding judgement across all areas in its full Section 5 inspection in January 2024.

Opportunities like these are few and far between and will interest those with creative minds and high aspirations, seeking to inspire a new generation of children through a virtues-led, multi-faith curriculum. The journey will be one of leading your classes to excellence as the school grows to capacity, which will be immensely rewarding for the right individual.

Background: Nishkam School West London is an innovative, state-of-the-art, all-through 4-19 school. Nishkam’s outstanding primary school opened in 2013 and the secondary in September 2018. The school is part of a highly successful MultiAcademy Trust (6 schools, 2 nurseries; 1 vocational college in Kenya).

As a Teacher of Religious Education at Nishkam School West London, you will work in a pioneering group, Nishkam School Trust (NST). NST is one of the first multi-academy free school trusts in the UK. The Trust has opened two free schools in Birmingham (a primary in 2011 and a secondary in 2012), both judged Ofsted Outstanding, and a third, a primary free school in Wolverhampton. The Trust continues to expand and has recently welcomed two more primary schools in Derby and Leeds into the Nishkam family.

We are seeking a highly committed and innovative leader to work closely with other teachers across both primary and secondary phases. NST has developed an inclusive, virtues-led, multi-faith educational approach that nurtures pupils of all faiths and those of no particular faith. The Nishkam ethos promotes a selfless mindset, aspiring to excellence, serving others, creating supportive communities, and realizing our potential. This ethos is embedded in every aspect of the school.

The Role: The role begins in Autumn Term 2025. You will:

• Collaborate with primary colleagues and develop the secondary phase’s curriculum.
• Shape the school’s ethos and routines, especially in learning and teaching.
• Share your expertise with other subject teachers across the Trust.
• Participate in global charitable initiatives.

This is an exceptional opportunity to work in a vibrant, supportive environment that welcomes students and staff of all faiths and backgrounds.

The Environment: The school is situated on 11 acres of green space in a purpose-built facility housing the all-through school. Our expectations are that you will:

• Believe all pupils can and will achieve highly.
• Build an environment based on virtues such as compassion, humility, and service, recognizing all humanity as one.
• Ensure excellence in learning, teaching, and achievement, especially at GCSE and A Level.
• Nurture a culture that values childhood, encourages adventure, and fosters lifelong learning.
• Develop an enriched curriculum that explores students’ interests and new horizons.
• Engage parents actively in their children’s learning.
• Build strong links within the local community.
• Contribute to the Nishkam ethos by sharing best practices locally and nationally.
• Report to the Senior Leadership Team.
• Work closely with the Local Governing Body.
• Collaborate with colleagues across both phases.