English Teacher/ Head of Department
ACE Schools Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 0ATThis job expired on 2 July 2024
Start date details
ASAP Pending Checks
Closing date
2 July 2024 at 8am
Date listed
11 June 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: 32.5
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR 1 - UPS 3
Additional allowances
TLR 2B + SEN
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Experience of working effectively as a practitioner with young people who would be considered disadvantaged and hard to engage
- Evidence of continually improving the teaching and learning of their pupils’ individual needs
- High expectations for accountability and consistency.
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils.
- Outstanding classroom practitioner.
- Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and rewards.
- Good communication, planning and organisational skills.
- Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement.
- Commitment to regular and on-going professional development and training to establish outstanding classroom practice
- Experienced in teaching SEMH and SEND
- Ability to work under pressure, handle a variety of situations and people and self-manage time
- Experience in using IT and Microsoft Office
- Demonstrative ability to communicate in written and oral context with wide cross section of social and cultural backgrounds.
- High expectations for accountability and consistency
- Able to motivate staff and hold them to account
- Experience of managing a staff team.
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils on site
- Outstanding classroom practitioner.
- Ability to model effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and rewards.
- Have good communication, planning and organisational skills.
- Demonstrate resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement.
- Ability to work under pressure, handle a variety of situations and people and self-manage time.
What the school offers its staff
WELL-BEING ACTIVITIES: Once a term staff are given opportunities to take part in well-being activities ranging from sporting or cultural to social.
STAFF SUPERVISION: As a school, we purchase the support services of a local Psychology service so that all members of staff can receive supervision from trained professionals when staff need support for issues inside and outside of school.
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 ACE Schools Plymouth
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 19
- School size
- 233 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- ACE Schools Plymouth website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- Tftrecruitment@deltservices.co.uk
ACE Schools Plymouth AP Academy (part of ACE Schools Multi Academy Trust) was formally set up on 1st June 2016 with the aim of building on the solid foundation established by the previous PRU. ACE Schools Plymouth operates from thirteen sites around Devon & Cornwall and provides education and support services throughout the community to support pupils to access education in schools, community centres, medical facilities or their own homes.
We offer outstanding opportunities in education for young people aged between 4 and 18 who do not attend mainstream schools for a variety of reasons including; medical need, risk of exclusion, behaviour, mental health diagnoses and SEN. Our dynamic and ground-breaking approach ensures our young people become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens. ACE has grown rapidly into one of the largest and most successful AP Academy models in the UK.
If you have resilience and have the desire to help make a difference to young people’s lives then we would like to hear from you.
ACE Schools Plymouth is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and will be undertaken before a confirmed offer of employment is made to successful applicants.
You will be required to undertake positive handling training as part of your induction and essential qualification and person requirements should be met as per role profile to be considered for shortlisting.
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