Economics & Business Teacher
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Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
8 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
27 September 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- Business studies, Economics
Working pattern
- Part time: 16.25 hours per week - FTE.50
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to UPS3
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate should:
- Be an inspirational classroom practitioner with an irresistible enthusiasm for their subject. As a reflective practitioner you will be constantly looking to develop your practice through collaboration, experimentation, and hard work.
- Be a team player working closely with the Head of Department to develop the learning experiences for all our students.
- Be creative and innovative constantly looking for new ways to challenge our high ability students.
- Contribute to secure the highest standards of pupil achievement, monitoring, tracking, supporting, and evaluating pupil achievement. Set targets for improvement and implement effective strategies for underperforming students.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- Highly motivated, curious, and industrious students.
- A strong, highly qualified staff team and an ethos of tolerance and respect with a family community spirit.
- A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing.
- An environment which promotes innovation.
Further details about the role
You will be joining a thriving economics and business department working within a successful social sciences faculty which includes psychology, sociology, politics, economics, and business. We value collaboration to ensure there is a vibrant learning and teaching experience for all with opportunities to get involved with visiting speakers, trips, external lectures, presentations, and EPQ.
We offer A Level Economics and A Level Business in the Sixth Form with GCSE Business as an option at Key Stage 4. Economics and Business courses at A Level and GCSE are usually oversubscribed. Results are testament to our diligent and hardworking students and staff, and in 2024, 93% achieved grades A*-B in A Level Economics, 83% achieved grades A*-B in A Level Business, and 73% achieved grades 9 – 7 in GCSE Business.
A good number of students go on to study economics or business-related courses at university. In recent years the department has prepared students for courses at Oxford and Cambridge, LSE, Nottingham, and Bath Universities as well as Degree Apprenticeships with institutions such as KPMG, NatWest, Barclays, J P Morgan, and PWC.
Commitment to safeguarding
All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.
About Southend High School for Girls
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1238 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@shsg.org
- Phone number
- 01702588852
Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.
Arranging a visit to Southend High School for Girls
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@shsg.org.
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