English Teacher (Maternity Cover)
Alperton Community School, Wembley, Middlesex, HA0 4JEThis job expired on 1 December 2024 – see similar jobs
Closing date
1 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 November 2024
Job details
Job role
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
- Fixed term - 9 Months - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- MPS - UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Teacher of English. As a passionate team, we strive to cultivate lifelong learners and critical thinkers who feel confident navigating and thriving in the world beyond school. The transformational nature of education and qualifications in English mean that quality Teaching and Learning is at the heart of our department. We value the knowledge and experiences students bring to the classroom; challenge and push students’ thinking to enable them to fully engage with ideas in literature and ways of communicating in the world; and embrace the myriad of ways to ‘do’ English including through writing, reading, discussion and thoughtful engagement with writers’ ideas. Our curriculum is broad, reflective and continually in conversation with students who are encouraged to work collaboratively, critically and creatively in order to explore and challenge each other’s thinking as well as develop their own personal, creative, and critical voices.
This is reflected in our new KS3 provision where students read a range of texts including Private Peaceful and the play adaptation of Frankenstein in year 7, The Hunger Games and the play adaptation of Refugee Boy in year 8 and The Boxer and play The Empress in year 9. Students are given multiple opportunities to ‘do English’ with reading, writing and speaking playing integral roles in our classrooms. As we continue to review and refine our curriculum for KS4 and 5, we are seeking enthusiastic and creative teachers to join our team.
The Person
You 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
The Benefits
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.
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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
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- School website
- Alperton Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@alperton.brent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02089022038
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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