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Computer Science/IT Teacher (temporary)

Landau Forte Academy, QEMS, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AH

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• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  1 February 2021 at 11:59am

• Date listed

  21 January 2021

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Computing, ICT
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - 9 months
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS / UPS
• Additional allowances:

   A supportive, cohesive and exciting working environment ;  A supportive, cohesive and exciting working environment ;  The chance to work with genuinely enthusiastic and happy students ;  A meal allowance, commensurate with your working hours ;  Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS) ;  Healthcare Cash Plan, from Westfield Health

Computer Science/IT Teacher (temporary) job summary

*Our opportunity for you

We have a vacancy for a Computer Science/IT Teacher on a temporary basis to cover maternity leave.
Do you want to work with resilient, eager students aged 11-18? Are you able to help young people develop academic and personal skills swiftly? Would you value the opportunity to work in a modern, vibrant town with a historic heart? Then Landau Forte QEMS/Sixth Form is the place for you. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a leading educational organisation at the cutting edge of educational development.

*Key Information
 Hours: 40.75 per week
 Contract: Full time (temporary to cover 9 month maternity leave)
 Start date: March 2021
 Salary: MPS / UPS
 Closing Date: Monday 18/01/2021

*What we can offer you
 A supportive, cohesive and exciting working environment
 A supportive, cohesive and exciting working environment
 The chance to work with genuinely enthusiastic and happy students
 A meal allowance, commensurate with your working hours
 Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS)
 Healthcare Cash Plan, from Westfield Health

Person specification
The type of person we are looking for will have a genuine commitment to making a positive contribution to
the Academy and most importantly a difference to the lives of young people – their educational and broader
achievement, self-esteem and confidence, social well-being and future employability.

*Job Description
 Ensure that teaching, learning and assessment meets the needs of learners, impacting positively upon student attainment and achievement; that it fulfils as appropriate the demands and requirements of the published Academy curriculum maps, tutor guides and student guides, and external examination syllabuses.
 Provide overall direction for student learning within your remit, ensuring that provision is made for students of all abilities, that they are effectively taught and that learning and achievement are evident.
Work with other staff in contributing to the total learning of students, including extension and enrichment activities.
 Follow the principles of the Academy's curriculum planning and development framework in preparing, delivering and developing, with others (staff and partners from industry and commerce), aspects of the curriculum.
 Set and maintain high standards, expectations and aspirations for both staff and students, ensuring that all are treated with dignity and respect and that students receive appropriate guidance, support and recognition.
 Ensure the effective preparation, planning and delivery of Computer Science. Department’s learning programmes, utilising flexible approaches to learning including the application of online learning.
 Ensure that appropriate, challenging attainment targets are set and used with all students and monitor their performance in terms of attainment, achievement (both quantifiable value added measures and broader qualitative achievements) and progress in respect of the outcomes from learning programmes and activities.
 Evaluate classes’ levels of attainment and achievement against both Academy targets and nationally recognised benchmarks.
 Monitor the quality and effectiveness of Assessment of Learning and Assessment for Learning, ensuring that the marking, assessment, recording and reporting processes are both effective and compliant with Academy policies.
 Ensure that Academy policies in relation to effective learning, student rewards and managing behaviour are successfully implemented to ensure that curriculum team members secure a well ordered and disciplined teaching and learning environment.
 Operate as a learning tutor and as a Personal Tutor.
 Ensure that learning methods are current and professional development is actively sought to further enhance pedagogy and practice, as well as subject knowledge.
Specific Skills and Abilities
 A graduate with qualified teacher status
 A well-qualified teacher in Computer Science, with a strong teaching record, though NQTs welcome
 Relevant qualifications (both formal and through appropriate experience) to meet the challenge of the appointment
 Excellent in-depth knowledge of the place of Computer Science in the development of young people and of the place of Computer Science within the wider curriculum
 An interest in the latest developments in Computer Science teaching
 Excellent relationships with students and parents
 Willingness to explore innovative and dynamic methods for teaching and learning
 High levels of enthusiasm, ambition, energy, resilience and determination
 Competent in the use of ICT both as an administrative tool and in teaching, learning and
assessment practices

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 Landau Forte Academy, QEMS

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 874 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Landau Forte Academy, QEMS website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@lfct.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/landau-forte-academy-qems (opens in new tab)

Landau Forte Academy QEMS joined the Landau Forte Charitable Trust in September 2011 and delivers education to 11-16 year olds. Landau Forte Academy Sixth Form is a purpose-built establishment providing Level 3 courses, both Advanced Level and BTEC, for the whole of Tamworth and beyond. The academies are located on a shared campus, but both operate from their own facilities, with Landau Forte Academy Sixth Form having new bespoke, accommodation, which opened in September 2011, with a new Sports Hall that opened in 2013.

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