Graduate Trainee Art Teacher
The Valley Leadership Academy, Bacup, Lancashire, OL13 0TGThis job expired on 22 June 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
27 August 2024
Closing date
22 June 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 June 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Art and design
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,598 to £32,134
Pay scale
- UQ1 to UQ6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we are looking for
We are seeking graduates with proven academic credentials who are keen to become teachers in Star schools.
Applicants must:
• be values-driven and determined to improve the life chances of children and young people.
• have the motivation and commitment to become a Star teacher.
• have the potential and ambition to secure qualified teacher status.
• be reflective learners with a growth mindset and appetite to receive and act upon feedback.
What the school offers its staff
As a Graduate Trainee Teacher, you’ll benefit from Star’s comprehensive talent strategy, which focuses on harnessing and nurturing aptitude and accelerating professional growth. Our programme enables trainees to take up paid employment in school while benefitting from a blended learning approach that culminates in a professional teaching qualification that will equip you to take the next steps on your career journey.
You will spend 80% of your time working in school and 20% attending training delivered by our teacher training partner, the National Institute of Teaching. This training will lead to the award of qualified teacher status (QTS) within fourteen months.
We are currently recruiting to the programme and are seeking to employ four art graduates to join the programme in:
• Bacup, Lancashire x 2
• Birmingham x 2
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 The Valley Leadership Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 655 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Valley Leadership Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- natasha.lewis@staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 0330 313 9800
The Valley Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Bacup. We joined Star Academies in 2019 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.
We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
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