8 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    Negotiable

  • Closing date

    14 October 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    23 September 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

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Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subjects

French, Languages

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£40,766-£62,092 + TLR

Pay scale

MPS/UPS (Inner London) + £2,000 Harris Allowance + TLR

Additional allowances

Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you looking for your next step in teaching? We are looking for a qualified, experienced teacher to join Harris Academy Bermondsey as 2iC French.

Our MFL team deliver high-quality lessons to students from Year 7-13. Students are highly engaged and inspired by the teachers' passion for MFL.

The MFL department is supportive, fostering a positive work environment with high staff retention and ample teaching materials.

The successful candidate will:

  • Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree
  • Have a minimum of one year's teaching experience
  • Have proven success in raising achievement.

  • Show a high level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement

  • Have recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development

  • Show good understanding of creative whole school strategies for improving literacy and numeracy and the importance of this in raising achievement

  • Have experience of embedding innovative strategies for Assessment for Learning and Learning to Learn.

  • Be willing to use coaching as a model for ensuring on-going professional development.

  • Have a proven ability to identify and implement strategies to raise standards of Teaching and Learning.


What the school offers its staff

Harris Academy Bermondsey is a girls' school with drive and ambition in the heart of London. Our students achieve the very highest standards in their education. Ofsted rated us as Outstanding in every one of their categories in November 2019.

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.

In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.

Further details about the role

The purpose of your role will be:

  • To deputise for the Subject Coordinator, assisting in leading the creation and establishment of outstanding provision within the subject area. This to include all programmes, systems and structures taking account of the academy's values and vision leading to outstanding teaching and learning.
  • To be accountable for student progress and development in the subject area across KS3, KS4 and post 16, including meeting student achievement targets for subject areas which are agreed by the Principal and the Governing Body.
  • To ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the subject area through continuously, developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.
  • To ensure the provision of an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students in the subject area, in accordance with the academy aims and policies, as determined by the Principal and Governing Body.
  • To ensure that all school policies and procedures are implemented and applied consistently by all staff in the subject area.
  • To ensure agreed tutor programme is implemented and that tutors are effective in their role.
  • To effectively and efficiently manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and physical resources across the subject area.
  • To lead development for literacy, within subject areas, to raise standards of Literacy across the academy.

Your main areas of responsibility will fall under the areas of:

  • Operational and strategic planning (including contributing to the subject and faculty improvement plans, and assisting in the development of appropriate syllabuses, resources, schemes of work, marking policies, assessment and teaching strategies)
  • Ensuring the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality and cost effective curriculum and leading development of the subject and its delivery
  • Staff development (including assisting in recruiting, building and managing an effective team of motivated staff)
  • Student outcomes (including assisting the director in ensuring the effective operation of target setting, monitoring and evaluation systems and the input and maintenance of accurate student data)
  • Pastoral system (including being a form tutor to a selected group of students)
  • Teaching, including acting as an outstanding role model


Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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About Harris Academy Bermondsey

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
868 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
0207 237 9316

Harris Academy Bermondsey is a girls' school in the heart of London with drive and ambition. Ofsted rates us as Outstanding in every category, and we are passionate about making a difference to the lives of our young women, ensuring that they have every opportunity to succeed by identifying and nurturing each one's individual talents. Our uncompromising but caring approach to education has put us as one of the highest performing schools nationally for student progress and has led to GCSE results that are above the national average.

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