Secondary Teacher of Science

**Job type**:
Full Time, Temporary

**Start date**:
April 2025

10 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**Job overview**:
**British Council School Madrid**

**1,800 pupils|2-18 years|**

The British Council School Madrid board is currently seeking to appoint an outstanding, caring and dedicated professional to the position of **Science Teacher** for its **Secondary School**.

This position would be a full-time appointment on a temporary contract, starting on the 14th of April 2025 to cover a parental leave.

The teacher will work closely with a wide team of professionals composed of teaching staff, senior and middle leaders and Business Services staff, serving the students and their families.

**About the British Council School - Madrid, Spain**:
The British Council School was established in Madrid in 1940.The school has always offered a bilingual and bicultural education, underpinned by its objective to develop future citizens with the core values of loyalty, flexibility, resilience, caring and challenge. The school is part of the British Council, the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities worldwide. It is an integral part of their work in Spain and one of their flagship instruments of cultural relations.

Our students' outstanding academic achievements and varied successes reflect the holistic education we provide, emphasizing life skills beyond factual knowledge. In 2024, students excelled in over 1,300 Cambridge IGCSE and Edexcel International GCSE exams, with 92% earning grades A*-C (9-4) and 51% achieving A*/A (9-7).Notably, 22% chose to pursue studies abroad in the UK, USA, and Europe, showcasing their global readiness at universities such us Oxford, Cambridge Yale and Stanford.

The British Council School is a thriving, co-educational day school with superb facilities set on a large, well linked, modern campus. It is one of the most prestigious Schools in Spain, rated with the highest ratings in every category in its most recent BSO inspections. Many of their more than 10,000 Alumni students - of both Spanish and other nationalities - have achieved significant professional recognition.

The British Council and the school support a national network of state bilingual schools. School staff lead on training, offer shadowing opportunities and participate in a range of system wide and school specific improvement and development activities.

Our academic programme encourages passion and achievement in sciences and technology, languages, literature, the dramatic arts, sports and public speaking. High levels of pastoral care are achieved through our vertical Family System, which we believe enables our pupils to be the best that they can be.

**Why Come to Madrid?**:
Our school is located in Madrid, a vibrant and thriving cosmopolitan city. Our staff has the chance to live and work in a place of great history, culture and cuisine. Opportunities are endless for travel, sport and entertainment, both in the city and country-wide; Spain is one of the top destinations in the world for leisure and holidays.

**What do we offer our Staff?**:

- The opportunity to work with enthusiastic, happy and confident children who enjoy learning
- A welcoming and supportive network of colleagues
- Competitive salaries and fee remission for children of staff members
- An extensive welcome, relocation and integration programme to help new teachers and their families settle into Madrid
- Ongoing and robust professional development opportunities
- Subsidised English or Spanish language courses
- Free annual health check-ups and flu vaccines
- Private health insurance at a reduced rate
- Discounted meals in our canteen, gym membership and free bus travel to and from school

**How to Apply**:

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Enclosed below you will find a full Role Profile and Core Skills for your reference, and to assist you in filling in the Application Form.

**About**The British Council School, Madrid**:
**The British Council School, Madrid**
- 5-7 Calle Solano, Pozuelo de Alarcon
- Madrid
- 28223
- Spain

+34 13 373 612

**DFE 6069|URN 142417|College Board School Code 792464**:
**Head of School**:

- Ms. Mercedes Hernandez Estrada

**Website**:
**Our Community**:
The British Council School is a bilingual and bi-cultural, non selective co-educational day school serving the Spanish community in Madrid. The school was founded in
- 1940

as the first British School in Spain. Our long experience in teaching and learning has made the British Council School one of the most prestigious schools in the world. More than 10,000 students, from Spain and other nationalities, have studied in our classrooms, and many of them have achieved senior positions in industry and government later in life. The school is part of the
- British Council

, the official UK institution that promotes Education, English Language and Cultural Relations in the world.

**Our School**:
Our school campus is located in Somosaguas, 14 kil