Geography Teacher (Full or Part-Time)
Abbey College, Ramsey, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, PE26 1DGDeadline is today
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
10 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
14 February 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS /UPS
Geography Teacher (Full or Part-Time) job summary
Details for applicants
Who are we?
Join our dynamic Geography department, where we ignite a passion for the world in our students. We encourage them to understand their local surroundings and expand their horizons by delving into the study of distant places. We ensure that our teaching covers the most current and pertinent geographical issues, keeping our students engaged and informed about the ever-evolving world around them. Our enquiry-based curriculum fosters curious minds, making Geography a popular subject at GCSE.
Fieldwork and geographical skills are at the heart of our teaching. We ensure that every year, students get hands-on experience in their lessons. Excitingly, we're about to embark on our first international trip in years, making it the perfect time to join our team.
Being part of the Political Science Faculty, which includes Geography, History, Law, and Politics, opens up fantastic opportunities for cross-curricular collaboration. Come and be a part of our inspiring journey!
Would you like to visit us?
Informal visits are welcomed. We are not as far away as you think and driving through the countryside each morning is a very pleasant way to start you day! You’ll find us just 20-25 minutes from Peterborough and Huntingdon, and commutable from Cambridge too. Why not come and visit us so we can show you more of our school?
What do I do if I want to know more before applying?
You are very welcome to come and visit our wonderful school, please just let us know and we will arrange a tour of the department and wider school. More information is available on our website. However, if you have any further questions, please contact Kate Moyes Kmoyes@abbey.college
We look forward to meeting you and receiving your application.www.abbeycollege.cambs.sch.uk
Job Description: Teacher of Geography
Start Date: September 2025
New Scale Point: MPS/UPS
Job role and purpose
- Teacher of Geography
- Opportunity to teach Key Stage 5
Responsibilities:
- Good or outstanding classroom skills .
- Ability to create effective lesson plans.
- Ability to use assessment to inform planning for good teaching and learning.
- Experience or desire to be involved in a curriculum initiative.
- Ability to differentiate materials to meet the needs of learners.
- Experience or desire to raise standards of achievements.
- Willingness to continue to develop own expertise.
- Ability to build good relationships with students and colleagues.
- Be well organized and able to obtain accurate records.
- Ability to use ICT effectively to engage students.
- Planning and preparing courses and lessons.
- Teaching; according to the educational needs of each student.
- Setting and marking of work to be carried out by the student in school and elsewhere.
- Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of students.
- Promote the general progress and well-being of individual students and classes.
- Provide guidance and advice to students on educational and social matters and on their further education and future career plan, including information about sources of more expert advice on specific questions; making relevant records and reports.
- Make records of and report on the personal and social need of students.
- Communicate and consult with parents.
- Lead a form group.
- Communicate and co-operate with persons or bodies outside school.
- Participate in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above.
- Offer an extracurricular activity.
- Provide or contribute to oral and written assessment, reports and references relating to individual students and groups.
- Participate in appraisal of your performance and that of other teachers.
- Periodically review your methods of teaching and programmes of work.
- Participate in arrangements for further training and professional development including those aimed at meeting the need identified in performance objectives or in performance statements.
- Participate in an induction programme arranged for your supervision and training.
- Advise and co-operate with the Headteacher and other teachers on the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials, teaching programmes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements.
- Maintain good order and discipline among students and safeguard their health and safety both when authorised to be on the school premises and when they are engaged in authorised school activities elsewhere.
- Participate in meetings at the school which relate to the curriculum of the school or the administration or organisation of the school, including pastoral arrangements.
- Participate in arrangements for preparing students for external examinations, in assessing students for the purpose of such examinations and recording and reporting such assessments, and participating in arrangements for students’ presentation for and supervision during such examinations within the guidelines agreed.
- Participate in appropriate administrative and organisational tasks relating to such duties as are described above, including the direction or supervision of persons providing support for the teachers in the school.
- Attend assemblies, registering the attendance of students and supervising students, whether these duties are to be performed before, during or after school sessions.
- Other Specific Duties as directed by the Headteacher or appropriate Line Manager.
Wellbeing
- Ensure all pupils have equal access to learning using appropriate strategies and resources, where necessary.
- Liaise with pastoral staff members to ensure the wellbeing of pupils and their full participation in school life.
- Raise any concerns regarding pupils’ behaviour with the relevant Raising Standards Lead.
- Implement any specific arrangements for individual pupils, ensuring that relevant staff members are aware of the measures in place.
- Provide individual pastoral support to pupils, where necessary.
- Continuously motivate and challenge pupils, whilst promoting and reinforcing self-esteem.
Safeguarding
- To have the ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
- Appreciate the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual children and young people whatever their life circumstances.
- To have a good understanding of the safeguarding agenda and can demonstrate an ability to contribute towards a safe environment.
- The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice and information in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
Variation Clause
- This job description will be reviewed and updated periodically in order to ensure that it relates to the job performed or to incorporate any proposed changes. This procedure will be conducted by the Headteacher or line manager in consultation with the post-holder. In these circumstances it will be the aim to reach agreement on reasonable changes but if agreement is not possible management reserves the right to make changes to the job description following consultation.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Abbey College, Ramsey
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1029 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Abbey College, Ramsey website
School location
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