Tutor for Politics & Philosophy

Permanent, Full Time. To commence 19th August 2026

Salary: Points 1-9 of the Sixth Form Colleges Teaching Staff pay spine, currently £33,465 - £51,714 per annum 

The Role:

At Oldham Sixth Form College, we are looking for a passionate Politics and Philosophy teacher to join our talented Humanities team. Our vision at OSFC is to transform the lives of young people through academic excellence and outstanding support, and our Humanities teachers are central to making that happen. Whether you are an experienced teacher looking for your next challenge or an ECT ready to launch your career in an exceptionally supportive environment, we would love to hear from you.

For the right candidate, there is also the possibility of a Course Leader role in Philosophy, a genuine opportunity to shape and lead a course with real room to grow.

You will teach engaging AS and A Level Politics and A Level Philosophy courses as part of our collaborative, supportive Humanities team known for excellence. Your role involves designing and delivering student-centred lessons while providing meaningful, timely feedback that challenges and supports students to achieve their best. You will also contribute to a curriculum that prepares students not just for exam success, but for a lifetime of informed, critical engagement with the world around them. Applicants should hold an undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy, or a closely related discipline such as PPE, International Relations, Theology, or History. We welcome applications from those who can demonstrate a genuine and continuing intellectual engagement with their subject; someone who brings their own curiosity into the classroom and inspires students to do the same.

You will find clear pathways for professional development at OSFC. We value teachers' expertise and centre collaboration between teachers, guidance from outstanding ASTs and evidence-based research in our bespoke CPD programme. Whether you are an ECT or an experienced teacher, you will be both supported and challenged to develop your craft.

Our Politics course follows the Edexcel specification and covers the full sweep of the discipline, spanning the mechanics of UK democracy and the competing ideologies that have shaped it, to the complexities of the US political system and what comparing the two reveals about power, representation, and change. Like most A-Level courses at OSFC, we teach AS in Year 12, giving students greater challenge and breadth in their first year and better choices going into Year 13. Students leave the course not just with excellent results, but with the ability to understand the world around them with genuine analytical depth: to understand not just how power works, but why it matters. The successful applicant will be working primarily alongside our excellent and experienced Course Leader.

Our Philosophy course follows the AQA specification and is taught as a linear A Level. It is, by any measure, one of the most intellectually ambitious things a seventeen-year-old can choose to study. Students wrestle with questions that have occupied the greatest minds in history and remain unresolved: What can we really know? How do we decide what is right? Does God exist? What is the mind? These are the questions that sit beneath law, politics, medicine, AI, and everyday moral life. Students who engage seriously with Philosophy leave with something rare: the confidence to sit with uncertainty and the rigour to think through it anyway. Philosophy is taught as a standalone course, separate from our Religion, Philosophy and Ethics offer.

Oldham Sixth Form College

OSFC is an award-winning college for 2,350 students in Oldham and beyond. Our mission is to ‘transform the lives of young people through academic excellence and outstanding support’.  Our broad curriculum enables us to offer more than 60 A Levels, vocational diplomas and T Levels.  We are proud of our strong reputation for providing excellent academic and vocational education to a diverse range of students.  We offer our students exceptional pastoral care, extensive enrichment activities and support from a team of Progress Tutors.   We celebrate students’ uniqueness and support our young people to flourish and become responsible, successful citizens who contribute positively to their communities. 

Our students achieve results in the top 15% nationally for A levels and the top 30% nationally for vocational qualifications. The vast majority progress to higher level study at university, with a small number embarking on apprenticeship programmes.

We support our own staff and other schools/colleges through an effective suite of CPD opportunities, and training, as a Research School, Science Learning Partnership Hub and Delivery Lead for NPQs. We have been at the forefront of using technology within teaching and learning and are recognised as a Google Reference College and winner of a Curriculum Innovation Award for our work in delivering digital education.  All students and teachers are issued with a Chromebook/laptop. 

We genuinely care about each other and the real difference we can make to students’ futures, and so we want to recruit staff who share our vision to transform our students’ lives. We were delighted to receive the Edurio Staff Choice Award in 2024, based on responses to our staff survey where 97% of our colleagues recommended the college as a good place to work.   We look forward to welcoming you to our team.

Proud member of The Pinnacle Learning Trust

We are a locally focused, cross-phase Trust, with a rigorous culture of high aspirations and strong academic performance that will improve the life chances of our young people through an understanding of the communities we serve.  Our academies provide high quality inclusive education and an ethos whereby our children and young people learn by example and grow morally and socially.

Our vision for our workforce is one in which diverse, dedicated, skilled and high-performing staff are operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment; enabling everyone to feel valued, respected and encouraged in order to contribute their best to support us in achieving our mission.  

Our Trust invests in each member of staff, offering them professional development opportunities, as well as the opportunity to contribute to the development of others via our Research School. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging.  

We are delighted to be the winners of the MAT Excellence Award for Wellbeing Trust of the Year 2025, and have been recognised by Edurio for a Trust Value Award, for the second year running. We offer various health and wellbeing benefits, including an Employee Assistance programme offering counselling, GP and nurse services, physiotherapy, etc.

You can get a feel for the passion we have at Oldham Sixthform College through our website, but please do organise to come in and meet us in person. That’s the best way to get a sense of the dynamic and broad education that our students are enjoying and what your future at Oldham Sixth Form College can be.

Read our ‘Join the Pinnacle Learning Trust’ booklet to discover what our trust can offer you.  

Advert Closing Date: 09.00am Monday 13th April 2026
Provisional Interview Date: W/C 13th April 2026

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Commitment to Safeguarding

OSFC is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, governors and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo pre-employment checks. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The Pinnacle Learning Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from underrepresented groups and ethnic minorities.