English Teacher and Literacy Lead

Alperton Community School, Wembley, Middlesex, HA0 4JE

6 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  1 December 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  5 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time: Teachers terms and conditions - Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPs to UPS
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 1

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Role

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Teacher of English and Literacy Lead. The successful candidate will be joining a successful department that inspires and excites students about their learning. We are committed to achieving success for all of our students. It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportive and committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth.

The Person

The successful candidate will be a passionate and caring practitioner who is committed to planning and delivering lessons to a high standard. A commitment to developing the curriculum and implementing assessment for learning is essential. Your teaching must be inclusive to all students, in particular stretching the most able and making good use of ICT. A sound knowledge and understanding of summative and formative assessment of student work is essential.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach English across the full age and ability range up to and including A Levels. The successful candidate will be expected to collaborate and support all team members.

What the school offers its staff

Continuing Professional Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cashback Health Benefits

Cycle to Work Scheme

Pension Scheme

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

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About Alperton Community School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1948 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Alperton Community School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hr@alperton.brent.sch.uk
• Phone number: 02089022038
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/alperton-community-school-wembley (opens in new tab)

We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 350 students in our sixth form. Due to our increased popularity as a school, we expanded our roll in 2018. Alperton Community School is an inclusive school with a student intake that reflects a wonderfully diverse and vibrant local community. Our students are very well behaved, work hard and are ambitious to succeed. Our most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2021 graded our school as Good "Pupils like coming to school and they enjoy their lessons"; "Pupils can focus because they feel safe"; "Leaders’ expectations of all pupils are high"; "Pupils behave well in school. They focus on their learning in lessons. Pupils follow teachers’ instructions and listen to one another".

Student progress at GCSE and A Level has been above national averages for many years with disadvantaged students performing well above national averages. Our progress 8 score has been consistently “above average”. We also see high numbers of our students’ progress to Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities. Student attendance and the percentage of students who remain in education, employment or training are also well above national averages.

Recent awards include the 2022 Pearson “Making a Difference” Award; the school was recently shortlisted for the TES School of the Year and won the TES Maths Team of the Year. We are also one of only four schools in the country to hold the Platinum Professional Development Mark.

This is an exceptional opportunity. It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportive and committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth. The school offers excellent support for ECTs in their induction year.

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