6 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    Required February or April 2025

  • Closing date

    29 November 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    15 November 2024

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

English

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are an ambitious school that has high aspirations and expectations for our students.We want to provide an education that is challenging yet accessible and relevant to the young people in our care.We want to inspire them to become life-long learners that empowers them to be valuable members of society.We offer all of our students many opportunities to enhance their learning through trips and visits that are both local and further afield.Our extensive extracurricular programme provides all students with opportunities to learn new skills and improve on existing ones outside of the normal classroom environment; make new friends and develop life skills such as communication, teamwork and resilience.

Knowing each student and member of staff individually allows us to build positive, mutually respectful relationships that support learning and create a culture of academic aspiration where success is celebrated.Promoting inclusivity, equality and diversity is fundamental to our academic curriculum and personal development programme.We want our students and staff to feel valued, respected and safe and we place great emphasis on their personal development and welfare.

We are growing in popularity in the local community and we are now the top choice school for children in our catchment.We are oversubscribed in some year groups and need for a larger staff team to support this expansion.

What the school offers its staff

Downham Market Academy can offer you:

  • An aspirational culture where students and staff are encouraged to maintain high standards and be at the forefront of education
  • Students who are ambitious, polite and hard-working
  • The chance to contribute to planning an inspirational and knowledge-rich curriculum that is inclusive and enhanced by opportunities to learn outside the classroom
  • A supportive and collaborative staff body that works closely with colleagues in other schools within our Trust
  • Excellent facilities and equipment where all staff have their own laptop; students have their own iPad to use in lessons and at home and where the school community makes excellent use of IT to communicate, collaborate and learn more effectively
  • A commitment to providing extensive and tailored CPD that allows all our staff to flourish
  • The opportunity to teach sixth form.
  • A wellbeing package including reduced gym membership rates, partnerships with local restaurants, cycle to work scheme and a comprehensive mental health service

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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About Downham Market Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1291 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
01366 389 100

Arranging a visit to Downham Market Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email KCoupland@dma.tela.org.uk.

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