English Teacher
Future Academies Watford, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD25 7HWThis job expired on 12 March 2021 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2021
Closing date
12 March 2021 at 9am
Date listed
19 February 2021
Job details
Job role
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Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS
Additional allowances
• The chance to make a difference to children’s and young people’s lives. Future Academies is of the belief that all children have the right to enriching education through a knowledge-rich and child-centric approach: our teachers can therefore make a dramatic impact on the lives of these children.
• The Curriculum Centre. We enhance our teachers’ lessons and their teaching experience through the development of our own curriculum programmes and resources in our prestigious Curriculum Centre, leaving our teachers to focus on what really matters; the students.
• Fast career progression. Because knowledge and intelligence, rather than length of service, are lauded and rewarded at Future Academies, teachers and support staff can quickly take up great responsibility, adding to their already exceptional experience and knowledge, joining the SLT or writing for the Trust’s Curriculum Centre, where our in-house textbooks are produced.
• Excellent CPD. The Trust is knowledge-centric and encourages CPD at all levels with excellent opportunities for swift career progression, within the Academy and Trust. This includes Leadership Development opportunities.
• Knowledge-rich staff team. You will be working with a supportive leadership team, cohesive staff body, and very purposeful environment with excellent resources. Being part of a Trust of schools enables you to share knowledge across a wider range of educational professionals.
English Teacher job summary
Future Academies Watford has an exciting opportunity available for a talented English Teacher from September 2021. You will be joining an established and knowledgeable English department and, working closely with the Curriculum Centre, you will have access to outstanding resources designed to enhance students’ learning experience, ensuring consistently high standards of teaching and learning across key stages.
Future Academies holds English Literature and English Language at the heart of all we do, with a keen focus on grammar; this is a fantastic opportunity to work with like-minded, gifted English Teachers. Backed by our talented Curriculum Centre, brimming with expertise and knowledge, you will teach to an exceptional standard, amongst exceptional teachers.
You will have the ability to inspire young people, instilling a love of English both as an academic subject and applying it to the world around them. You will be a tireless advocate for your subject and forward thinking in your approaches to development, change and improvement; we are developing an academic culture where the highest standards are expected of staff and students in line with the Future Academies belief system.
As the successful applicant, you will have:
• A strong academic record with a 2:1 degree or above from a leading university in your subject area
• Great passion for your subject with high cultural literacy to deliver sophisticated lessons and continue to raise teaching standards within English
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• The ambition and determination we expect from all of our staff to continue striving for excellence
• The enthusiasm and energy required to work with the children and young people in our schools
• An unwavering belief in the power of education to change lives, as per our trust’s motto, libertas per cultum (freedom through education). We expect all teachers to share in, and feel empowered by, this concept
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 Future Academies Watford
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1123 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Future Academies Watford website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@futureacademies.org
Future Academies Watford is set in leafy Hertfordshire and is well connected with many transport links including into the centre of London. Working at our Academy will give you the opportunity to work alongside outstanding teachers, to observe and share practice on a regular basis, developing pedagogy through reflection.
We are part of Future Academies, a Multi-Academy Trust which includes three primary schools and seven secondary schools in and around London and Hertfordshire. We are motivated by a mission of social change and reducing educational inequality. We are unique in our approach to a knowledge-rich curriculum; our school motto is Libertas per cultum (Freedom through education), and in our strong emphasis on raising young people’s aspirations and outcomes through the teaching of classical and traditional subjects. Our children and young people study a bespoke curriculum developed by researchers at our Curriculum Centre, which places a focus on developing their cultural literacy and their awareness of the forces, words and events that have shaped our society today.
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