Computing Teacher
Wixams Academy, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 6BA2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
8 May 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 April 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Computing
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS - UPS also considered
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential
Qualifications/
Training
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Degree
- Evidence of appropriate continued personal and professional development
Experience/ Knowledge
- Secure knowledge of the characteristics of effective learning, teaching and assessment
- Experience of teaching and planning for children with SEND
- A proven track record of improving results and ensuring students make ambitious levels of progress
- An excellent understanding of pupil assessment and target setting for individual pupil improvement and how that analysis contributes to high standards
- Knowledge of strategies to achieve effective learning, teaching and assessment including the use of ICT
- Evidence of understanding how to promote equality and diversity within the job role.
Skills/Abilities/ Qualities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to form strong, effective relationships with both children and adults
- Ability to plan, prioritise and delegate effectively
- Strong ICT skills
- Ability to deliver teaching and learning to an outstanding level
- Effective and confident written and oral communication skills with the ability to inspire confidence in others
- Ability to demonstrate a range of interpersonal skills to develop productive relationships and high performing teams
Special Requirements
- Strong commitment to the values and ethos of the Academy
- Demonstrable commitment to equality of opportunity and inclusive education
- High standards of integrity and a positive role model for students and staff
Desirable
Experience/Knowledge
- Ability and experience to teach at KS3, KS4 and KS5
- Experience of successfully leading and managing people to markedly improve student outcomes
What the school offers its staff
N/A
Further details about the role
Wixams Academy is a comprehensive Academy serving circa (in September 2023) 950 pupils including 120 pupils in the Sixth Form. We opened in 2017 with only 80 students and continue to grow annually (with new students and staff) to 1750 students and 200 staff by 2030. we are currently working with Bedford Borough Council and the Department for Education to expand the capacity of the school to facilitate this growth. The Academy has been popular and oversubscribed since opening and we have low staff turnover. The Academy is located one mile south of Bedford town centre and has a mixed community, with broadly national composition. We have recently merged Knowledge Schools Trust (KST) to create a local hub to drive further growth in the region.
All appointments are subject to safer recruitment and safeguarding checks, including an enhanced DBS clearance check, Prohibition from Teaching Checks and a Section 128 Direction Check (if applicable). KST is committed to the safeguarding of the children and young people in our care and actively promotes their welfare. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. KST is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from minority groups.
Safeguarding StatementWixams Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff and volunteers to understand and share this commitment. We have a shared commitment to develop a culture of respect, where discrimination is not tolerated. We welcome all applications, including those from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
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 Wixams Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 802 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Wixams Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- n.robertson@ks-t.org
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