0.6FTE Lead Teacher of Health and Social Care and Child Care
The Duston School, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN5 6XA19 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
10 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 December 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Health and social care
Working pattern
- Part time: 0.6FTE Lead Teacher of Health and Social Care and Child Care
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS (£31,650—£49,084 FTE)TLR2b (Pro-rated)
What skills and experience we're looking for
0.6FTE Lead Teacher of Health and Social Care and Child Care MPS/UPS (£31,650—£49,084 FTE)TLR2b (Pro-rated) The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Start Date: September 2025 Closing Date: midday, Monday 10th January 2025
Do you want to work in a hugely successful and dramatically transformed school? Do you want to work in a
school that operates on common sense and places people at the centre of all that is does?
In joining the Duston School you will be joining a school that is:
• Built upon strong values and principles
• Places people at the heart of all that it does
• Heavily over-subscribed
• Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded
• A Behaviour Hub Lead School
• The 27th most improved school nationally, with GCSE outcomes in 2019 placing the school in the top 20% of all
schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools
• GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2022 were the best in the school’s history
• A school of Character
• An Investors in People Gold School
• An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School
• A Global Equality Collective School
• The home of ResearchED Northampton
• A PKC Curriculum Hub
• An Ofsted ‘Good’ school
What the school offers its staff
The Duston School is looking to appoint a part time Lead teacher of Health and Social Care and Child Care. The post is one which requires the performance of the following particular responsibilities: • Teach Health & Social Care to students in years 12-13. • Teach Child Care to students in years 10-11 • Teach other subjects as required. • Plan lessons carefully, having regard to the schemes of work and departmental practice. • Cover for absent colleagues. • Work as a full member of the H&SC curriculum team, working with others to disseminate good practice in the department, to create teaching resources and to develop consistent approaches. • Assess student work to monitor and evaluate progress, set targets and advise lesson preparation. • Liaise with appropriate staff in partnership schools. We welcome applications from qualified teachers, who can demonstrate the highest standards of delivery in order to raise attainment and are committed to motivating young people. We welcome applications from ECT’s as well as experienced applicants.
Flexible working opportunities
Applying: Please complete an application form (we do not accept a CV alone) along with a letter of application to the Principal. Please email the application form and letter to: jobs@thedustonschool.org If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safer recruitment practice and all appointments are subject to satisfactory DBS checks. In addition references will be requested for short listed applicants prior to interview and will form part of the interview process. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. Online searches will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About The Duston School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1982 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Duston School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@thedustonschool.org
- Phone number
- 01604460004
Arranging a visit to The Duston School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jobs@thedustonschool.org.
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