Class Teacher - Key Stage 2 (Year 4). 0.44 FTE

Shirland Primary School, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 6BH

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  20 November 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  5 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS or UPS

Class Teacher - Key Stage 2 (Year 4). 0.44 FTE job summary

Responsible For

Subject leadership, co‐operation and liaison with other professionals, including colleagues and external agencies.

Generic Responsibilities

In fulfilling the requirements of the post, the teacher will demonstrate essential professional characteristics and in particular will:

• Inspire trust and confidence in pupils, colleagues, parents and governors
• Build team commitment with all stakeholders.
• Engage and motivate pupils
• Demonstrate analytical thinking
• Improve the quality of pupil’s learning
• Be an effective professional who demonstrates thorough curriculum knowledge, can teach and assess effectively, and is judged to be at least good and often outstanding, and takes responsibility for own professional development and has pupils who achieve well.
• Teach pupils in the assigned group according to their educational needs, including the enhancement of the learning environment both in and outdoors.
• Observe and assess pupils using an online learning journey platform.
• Assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of assigned pupils and keep such records as are required by the school’s systems.
• Ensure a high-quality learning experience for all pupils, which meets internal and external quality standards.
• Use a variety of a delivery methods appropriate to students’ learning styles and the varying demands of curriculum.
• Provide a positive, and conducive and safe learning environment, encouraging high standards in punctuality, presentation of work and relationships.
• Set high expectations for pupils’ behaviour and maintain a good standard of discipline through well focused teaching, fostering positive relationships, and school’s behaviour policy.

To be responsible and accountable for subject areas (to be negotiated depending on the skills of the successful candidate):

To ensure relevant and appropriate policies are produced and reviewed, according to the school’s schedule and are complimented by associated schemes of wor

To monitor and evaluate learning within the curriculum areas in line with the school’s monitoring cycle. (This may include learning walks or use of other approaches, work sampling, planning, review etc)

To collate and analyse information and be accountable for standards achieved in curriculum areas

To secure and allocate the resources necessary to deliver the curriculum areas within an allocated budget.

To advise and support other members of staff on the content and delivery of the curriculum areas.

To identify and secure provision of appropriate in‐service professional development in relation to the curriculum area, with the support of the Headteacher.

To lead developments in the formulation and evaluation of the school’s assessment practice in relation to the areas of the curriculum for which lead responsibility is held.

To take a lead role, with the Headteacher and Leadership Team in the formulation and implementation of the School Improvement Plan and associated action plans.

Pastoral Care

To actively promote the safeguarding and welfare of all children

To promote self‐discipline, high standards of behaviour and positive attitudes on the part of all children and to implement policies and procedures to foster them

To ensure that a high standard of care and good order for all children is maintained.

Communication and Community Links

To fully support the life and work of the school

To develop and maintain positive and effective professional relationships with CNET colleagues, parents, the local community and Governors

To develop and maintain links with CNET, the LA and other external support services

To provide information to the local governing body to enable it to meet its responsibilities

Class Teacher Key Stage 2 (Year 4)

Job Specification

Area	Essential	Desirable
Qualifications	Qualified teacher status Degree Ability to identify own development needs	Additional or higher professional qualifications
Experience	Teaching at consistently good, with much being outstanding An understanding of the primary phase	Teaching in more than one key stage Subject leadership experience Evidence of using the outcomes of self-evaluation, data analysis etc. set targets and influence planning Leading extra-curricular activities
Knowledge and understanding	Promoting the safeguarding of children within the school The areas identified within the job description and their effective dissemination to pupils Improvement strategies for pupil attainment Curriculum management and the school’s duty to provide for the needs of all pupils A commitment to supporting and teaching SEND pupils	The Ofsted framework and the place of self-evaluation Maintaining a climate conductive to school review and evaluation.
Personal Characteristics	Organised and clear sighted Able to think creatively Enthusiastic Supportive Determined and self-motivated Open-minded Positive Diplomatic Empathetic Team player

Skills

Communicate effectively in strategies to support pupil development Communicate effectively (both orally and in writing) to a variety of audiences Show evidence of good interpersonal skills as a team member, and in handling sensitive situations in a wider context Establish good working relations within the school and community Promote the subjects effectively within the school Promote the school and Trust aims positively Develop positive team spirit, delegating and negating, when necessary, with sensitivity Motivate children to achieve their best, and enhance their self-esteem Have exemplary classroom practice Have up to date ICT skills and knowledge, and how to use these to enhance learning

Working with Governors and/or parent groups Experience of leading change and setting targets Encouraging staff to surpass their own expectations Participate and lead effectively in strategies to support staff development

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.

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About Shirland Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 200 pupils
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Shirland Primary School website (opens in new tab)
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