Graduate Trainee Science Teacher
Highfield Leadership Academy, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY4 3JZThis job expired on 22 June 2024
Start date details
Tuesday 27 August 2024.
Closing date
22 June 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- UQ1 to UQ6 (£20,598 to £32,134)
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 fourteen science graduates to join the programme in:
• Bacup, Lancashire x 4
• Blackpool x 1
• Bradford x 2
• Salford x 1
• Birmingham x 5
• Waltham Forest x 1
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Highfield Leadership Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 631 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Highfield Leadership Academy website
- Email address
- natasha.lewis@staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 0330 313 9800
Highfield Leadership Academy in Blackpool, Lancashire is a 1200 place, 11-16 secondary school and is part of Star Academies. We joined Star on 1 April 2016 and like all Star schools, “Leadership” is our specialism.
As a designated Leadership Academy, we are keen to ensure our pupils are offered encouragement and a wealth of opportunities to develop their natural skills, abilities and potential. We actively provide learning opportunities to teach performance leadership skills through project-based learning and community work. We ensure our pupils develop essential academic skills in line with our Trust mission to promote educational excellence, character development and service to communities.
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