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This job expired on 12 April 2021

  • Job start date

    1 September 2021

  • Closing date

    12 April 2021 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    19 March 2021

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Geography

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

MPS-UPS 3

Additional allowances

TLR 2.2

LEAD SUBJECT TEACHER OF GEOGRAPHY job summary

Are you an enthusiastic, committed, qualified Geography Teacher? Do you want the challenge of leading a department? Are you an excellent classroom practitioner, creative & challenging, passionate & committed, who can maximise pupil potential? We are looking for an excellent classroom practitioner who is both creative and challenging in their teaching. They will be passionate and committed to ensuring students maximise their potential and achievement. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to teach across our whole 11-16 age range and ability range and shape the future of the subject within the school. The Department of two full time teachers will be led by the successful applicant. The post is vacant due to the planned retirement of the current post holder. The second teacher of geography completed their NQT with us and is now an RQT. Pupils are well supported through our Pastoral House Continent system with year group tutoring supported by Continent Leaders. This provides the support pupils need to perform well across the curriculum as well as healthy competition throughout the year. We have an active extra-curricular programme and run a number of annual residential trips both here and abroad. Close links with the local Rotary Club provide access to bespoke programmes, community work and charitable activities. Large numbers of pupils complete their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award. We currently offer a GCSE in Geography at KS4 and this is a popular option within our curriculum. Pupils have 3 hours per week in both Years 10 and 11. At KS3 all pupils cover a range of the National Curriculum. Experiential learning has been a feature of our curriculum with fieldwork, trips and visits taking place right from Year 7 with an annual assent to the top of Pendle Hill. Trips to local rivers, streams and towns take place to study both physical and human geography in action. The department has teamed together with the Travel and Tourism teacher for an annual visit to Holland, to mention some of their curriculum enrichment. We have a 3 year KS3 and 2 year KS4 offering EBacc, should pupils choose to do so.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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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Job Description - LST Geography.pdf - 130 KB (opens in new tab)
Letter from Headteacher.pdf - 146 KB (opens in new tab)
Job Advert - LST Geography.pdf - 156 KB (opens in new tab)
Person Specification - LST Geography.pdf - 64.5 KB (opens in new tab)

About Rhyddings

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
556 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
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School website
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Email address
worthingtong@rhyddings.co.uk
Phone number
01282 683 040
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Welcome to Rhyddings Business & Enterprise School, which serves the East Lancashire old mill town of Oswaldtwistle and surrounding area of Hyndburn. It has been at the heart of the community for over 85 years and although a smaller than average high school we cater for pupils from a diverse range of backgrounds. The school enjoys good transport links via the M65 corridor and adjoining networks of M6 and M66.

The school is in a period of transition, quite literally with a planned capital building programme. Uniquely, whilst this is taking place the school has been temporarily off-site for the academic years 2019-2021, to allow for demolition and construction work. Therefore, we are currently based at Hameldon College, Coal Clough Lane, Burnley for this academic year but return to Oswaldtwistle in September 2021.

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