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Lead Psychology Teacher

The Kingston Academy, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT2 5PE

This job expired on 23 February 2020 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2020

• Closing date

  23 February 2020 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  29 January 2020

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Psychology, Psychology
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
• Full-time equivalent salary: Main pay range 3 to Upper pay range 3, £32,294 to £44,985
• Additional allowances:

  Outer London Payscale ; TLR associated with department lead role ; Exceptional opportunities for career progression and enhancement in context of growing new academy ; Located in state-of-the-art new premises

Lead Psychology Teacher job summary

The Board of Trustees wish to appoint a talented and motivated Lead Psychology Teacher to join our fast growing, ambitious and Outstanding Academy. You will be responsible for establishing the teaching of Psychology at The Kingston Academy and, as such, will have the scope to implement your own blueprint for the department. We are able to offer key subject responsibilities to the right candidate and as a rapidly developing school, The Kingston Academy will provide you with exceptional opportunities for career development and progression. We require candidates who are able to teach to both GCSE and A Level standard. The successful candidate would join us at the beginning of September 2020.

The successful candidate will possess the following attributes:

- QTS

- Broad base of subject knowledge

- Ability to teach across key stages 3, 4 and 5 ultimately

- Successful training, teaching practice and / or successful prior teaching experience

- Awareness of, and willingness to implement new digital approaches to teaching

- Clear understanding of successful classroom practice

- Possess a range of teaching and learning strategies

- Ability to work effectively as part of a curriculum / subject team

- Effective ICT skills

- Ability to maintain good classroom behaviour

- Effective organizational skills e.g. lesson preparation, scheme of work development, meeting deadlines, good record keeping etc.

- Effective inter-personal skills

- Ideally with experience of running field trips and / or curriculum enhancing residential trips.

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 Kingston Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1176 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Kingston Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: jfree@thekingstonacademy.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-kingston-academy (opens in new tab)

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