Working in an HMC school
Working in education is enormously rewarding, offering the opportunity to inspire and enrich the lives of young people through teaching, or indirectly by contributing to the organisational running of a school.
HMC is a kitemark of global quality, innovation and excellence in education. A thriving membership association, it represents over 400 of the world’s very best schools.
Located all around the world, each HMC school is individual and distinctive, and standards are exceptionally high in them all. All HMC schools pride themselves not only on their commitment to an excellent educational experience for their pupils, but their commitment to providing an excellent working environment where you could flourish in your career too.
HMC schools are committed to the professional development of their staff. This includes teachers at all levels of their career, school leaders, and staff in organisational roles.
The approach to professional development in HMC schools is highly personalised, includes regular performance development reviews, and training opportunities to enable you to develop your knowledge and keep abreast of new initiatives and innovations.
HMC Professional Development offers training and development that supports excellence in HMC schools. Discover some of the courses and conferences on offer to HMC member schools here.
HMC schools offer a broad range of subjects, distinctive qualifications and can use their independence to devise their own programmes of study and individual lesson plans.
Classics, additional modern foreign languages, the International Baccalaureate, EPQs and vocational courses can all be found at many HMC schools, meaning you can teach the subject you love to motivated pupils who are supported by outstanding pastoral care.
Excellent resources across all areas of school and to support all subjects, including IT facilities and provision for sport, music and the arts are key features of HMC schools. Dedicated staff are therefore empowered to be specialists in their areas in comfortable and often state of the art learning and working environments.
Wellbeing is of paramount importance to all HMC schools – of staff as well as of pupils. While each school’s approach is unique, staff benefit from supportive environments where pastoral care, professional trust and work–life balance are genuinely valued. In all HMC schools, there is a strong commitment to creating cultures where people feel respected, energised and able to thrive, making HMC schools rewarding places to build a career.
- HMC Teacher, Blundell’s School
"I absolutely love teaching, there's nothing else in the world I'd like to do more"
– HMC Teacher, King Edward's School, Birmingham
- HMC Teacher, Blundell’s School
