Head of Department - Geography
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Start date details
01 January 2024
Closing date
5 October 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 September 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,000.00 - £43,685.00 Annually (FTE) Plus TLR2 £5026
Head of Department - Geography job summary
We are seeking to appoint a teacher to
join us with the energy and enthusiasm needed to inspire and motivate students
with the vision to lead the department, ensuring that the strong curriculum and pedagogical
foundations in Geography continue to evolve, informed by current research and
statutory developments. The Geography department is part of the Humanities
faculty, a team that prides itself on supporting one another and collaborating
effectively in our shared goal of providing our students with an experience
that embodies the school ethos: Inspiring, Caring, and Enriching.
We want to appoint a
Head of Geography who can help us to:
·
Inspire every student
with the awe-inspiring explanations of how the physical and political world
works, through to encouraging the next generation of leading geographers.
·
Support our students to be
thoughtful, compassionate, caring individuals by asking and discussing
the social and moral questions that geography raises
·
Enrich every students’
whole school experience through a range of geography-themed extracurricular
opportunities including clubs, trips and a well-stocked library to read for
pleasure.
We seek a leader who
has a thirst for excellence and the drive to continually improve; an excellent
teacher with high expectations of themselves and students with commitment to
continually improve their classroom practice. The successful candidate will be
expected to deliver a varied curriculum, both in terms of content and pedagogy.
As an employee
you will benefit from a professional and supportive environment as well as a
great pension scheme, an Employee Assistance Programme and free membership to
our onsite sports centre, including swimming pool, fitness suite, badminton and
basketball courts. Please download our application pack for more details.
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.
About Bottisham Village College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1452 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Bottisham Village College website (opens in new tab)
Bottisham is 5 miles East of Cambridge, just off the A14 trunk road. The Village College is a eight form-entry mixed 11-16 comprehensive school and serves twenty one villages in the area bordering Cambridge and east to Newmarket. The school is heavily oversubscribed with 1160 students on roll, rising to 1500 in next 5 years.
We are committed to providing an outstanding education to all of our students, enabling them to develop into mature, independent young people, ready to take their place in society. We have extremely high expectations and work with commitment and dedication to enable all students to have the opportunity to achieve their full potential, both academically and socially. The school community values all our staff, students, parents and carers and their contribution to our successes and achievements.
The College was opened in 1937 as the second of the Cambridgeshire Village Colleges. These were the forerunners of community education in this country and are still committed to lifelong learning in its widest sense. The vision of their founder, Henry Morris, was that schools should be at the heart of their communities, open to all and that they should offer an attractive and stimulating environment for learning. Bottisham Village College continues to aspire to this vision.
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