Accelerated Learning Group (ALG) Teacher
Sir Harry Smith Community College, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1XB11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026 or sooner
Closing date
25 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Subject
- Key Stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 Annually (Actual)
Accelerated Learning Group (ALG) Teacher job summary
Sir Harry Smith Community College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff to share this commitment.
We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic teacher who is keen to join the school in a new and exciting opportunity to deliver a bespoke curriculum to students, which ensures all students can access, thrive and succeed in their studies.
The ideal candidate will support students to re-engage in learning, develop their social and emotional skills and deploy effective adaptive strategies in delivering a bespoke curriculum, which provides students with the skills required to succeed in life after school. At Sir Harry Smith Community College, we ensure all children are provided with 'Aspiration and Achievement’.
The teacher will have a record of promoting excellent outcomes and expectations for all pupils, follow, plan and deliver an engaging and unique curriculum within KS3 for students who may be working at KS2 level. The successful candidate will thrive when working as part of a team and have experience working collaboratively with a range of staff and other professionals.
We welcome applications from primary or middle school teachers from mainstream or special schools, who can teach across a range of subjects. Current secondary school teachers are welcome to apply and will be required to teach a mixture of English, Maths and Humanities. This post is not suitable for an ECT.
The successful candidate will:
- Be inspirational, enthusiastic, and dedicated to improving student outcomes for some of our most vulnerable students.
- Demonstrate adaptive teaching through dynamic and imaginative delivery.
- Have good subject knowledge across KS2-3 English, Maths and Humanities.
- Work collaboratively with a committed team of supportive and skilled teachers.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive and supportive department who place all children at the centre of excellent teaching and learning.
The school can offer:
- Supportive and ambitious middle and senior leaders
- Recognition for continuous service
- Automatic enrolment into the TPS
- Excellent CPD opportunities
- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
We are a ‘good’ school. Our February 2024 Ofsted recognised that within SEND:
The school has redesigned its curriculum. It has thought carefully about how to inspire pupils. The school has a well-planned and ambitious programme of learning. The school has ensured that the curriculum reflects the diversity of modern life. Pupils explain how they celebrate difference. The school has planned so all pupils have access to the curriculum without limitation. This includes those pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)’.
If you would like an information pack, please visit our website www.sirharrysmith.cambs.sch.uk. For more information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact Clair Meadows on 01733 703991 or cmeadows@sirharrysmith.com
Application deadline is midday on Wednesday 25th June 2025. Please send completed application forms, together with a letter of application no longer than 2 sides of A4 to: applications@sirharrysmith.com. We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date if we consider that we have received an appropriate number of suitable candidates for the post.
Applicants are thanked for their interest in Sir Harry Smith Community College. Please note that only candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted after the closing date
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Sir Harry Smith Community College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1094 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sir Harry Smith Community College website
Secondary
School location
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