Position: Scientist Teacher (Dual-Subject)
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
Start Date: September 2026
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Location: Discovery Park, Sandwich, Kent
About Us
The Turner Schools Carbon 6 STEM Pathway at Discovery Park is the UK’s first specialist science and maths sixth form embedded within a working science park. We open in September 2026, based at Discovery Park in Sandwich, Kent — a thriving innovation campus home to life sciences companies, research laboratories, and tech businesses.
This is not a conventional school. Our students are here because science and maths are their passion. They are surrounded daily by working scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Teaching here means contributing to something genuinely new — an institution built from the ground up around scientific curiosity and intellectual ambition.
The Role
We are looking for exceptional scientists who can teach to A-level standard across more than one discipline. We are particularly interested in candidates who can offer combinations such as:
- Physics and Mathematics
- Biology and Chemistry
- Chemistry and Physics
- Mathematics and a science subject
Subject flexibility is central to how we operate. In a small, specialist sixth form, the ability to stretch across disciplines — and to draw connections between them — is as valuable as depth in any single subject.
What We’re Looking For
You will be genuinely excited by this kind of environment. Specifically, we’re looking for someone who:
- Has strong subject knowledge across at least two A-level science or maths disciplines, and can teach them with confidence and enthusiasm
- Thrives in environments that don’t follow conventional school structures — you’re adaptable, resourceful, and energised by building things from scratch
- Loves working with highly able, intellectually curious young people who have chosen to be here
- Can bring the world of science park to the classroom — connecting what students are learning to real research, real careers, and real problems
- Is a scientist first and a teacher second — someone who sees teaching as a natural expression of their passion for their subject
- Is collaborative, self-directed, and comfortable contributing beyond the classroom to the broader life of a new institution
What This Is Not
This is not a conventional classroom job. There is no pastoral bureaucracy, no behaviour management challenge, and no disengaged students. What there is instead is the intellectual challenge of teaching gifted young people who will push you, the creative challenge of helping build a new institution, and the unique context of a working science park as your backdrop. If you have ever felt constrained by the structures of a traditional school, this role is worth a conversation.
What We Offer
- A genuinely unusual and stimulating professional environment
- Small cohorts of motivated, high-ability post-16 students
- Direct access to a community of scientists, researchers, and industry partners on site
- The opportunity to help shape a new institution from its earliest days
- Competitive salary
Requirements
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent, or demonstrable equivalent experience
- A degree in a relevant science or maths discipline (or combination)
- A-level teaching experience in at least one subject (experience across two or more is strongly preferred)
- Enhanced DBS clearance (or willingness to obtain)
How to Apply
Send a CV and a covering letter (no more than two pages) to russell.sauntry@amelix.co.uk. Your covering letter should tell us which subjects you can offer, what draws you to this type of environment, and why you think you would thrive here.
