Start date: ASAP
End date: July 2024
Location: North Somerset
Hours: Full time
Salary/rate: TMS/UPS
School details:
Based in a beautiful rural setting, this is a popular, mixed comprehensive school with an excellent sixth form. Maintaining high standards of behaviour within a supportive and inclusive culture that values and celebrates personal enrichment and creativity alongside academic achievements is part of the reason they have a reputation to be proud of.
Role:
- Excellent subject and curriculum knowledge
- To undertake a designated programme of teaching, plan, structure, and resource teaching and learning effectively. To ensure a high-quality learning experience for all students
- To use a variety of delivery methods which will stimulate learning appropriate to meet all student needs and demands of the syllabus
- Commitment to managing behaviour in effective ways to ensure an effective and safe learning environment
- Commitment to fostering a love of the subject and its related disciplines
- Understanding of the innovative use of IT within the subject for the purposes of learning, communication, collaboration, assessment, and data tracking
- Commitment to setting high expectations to inspire, motivate and challenge, as well as how to adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils
- Delivery of strategies to teach less motivated students at all levels
- To undertake assessment of students as requested by external examination bodies, departmental and school policies and to mark, grade and give written/verbal and diagnostic feedback as required
- Support of academic enrichment opportunities
- Attendance at Parents’ Evenings and strong commitment to promoting excellent progress and celebrating success
- Commitment to the School’s Curriculum and Strategic Priorities
- Commitment to your own Continuing Professional Development
- Commitment to being a supportive member of the pastoral team
- Commitment to consistently high standards of personal and professional conduct
Experience, Qualifications and Training:
- We seek a qualified and enthusiastic teacher of English
- Must have QTS, QTLS, PGCE or equivalent
- Previous teaching experience
- Up to date Safeguarding training issued in the last year (desirable however not essential). Training can be provided.
Experience / Attributes:
- Degree in appropriate subject including Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- Suitable for ECT’s and experienced teachers
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making ability
- Be self-motivated, detail-oriented and adaptable
- Confident ICT skills
- Confident using positive behaviour management strategies
- Good understanding of supporting SEN students
- Demonstrates a commitment to safeguarding and well-being of children and young people
Eligibility to work in a teaching role:
- Holds Right to Work in the UK
- Provide two professional child related references that cover the last two years
- Enhanced DBS certificate which is either on the online ‘Update Service’ or be willing to apply for a new DBS certificate
Suitability to work with children and young people will form part of the selection process. As part of the shortlisting process an online search will be carried out. All appointments will be subject to vetting, including an enhanced DBS check. It is an offence to apply for a role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
How to apply:
- If you would like to find out further information regarding this role or similar positions within the South West, please forward your CV to QT Education today.
Why work with QT Education:
- We are a family-owned business, we ensure both schools and teachers are treated as we would want to be treated ourselves!
- We specialise and work exclusively with Secondary Qualified Teachers in the South West. As highly experienced Education Recruiters in the South West, we use our expertise to secure you local work, specific to your individual requirements
- We offer a local and personalised service; we place you at the heart of the recruitment process
- Our rates of pay compare favourably to other agencies in the South West and we pay our teachers via PAYE (not via umbrella companies)
- All processes of the business are managed internally, as a result, we are highly efficient
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