EXPIRED

This job expired on 25 February 2020

  • Job start date

    1 September 2020

  • Closing date

    25 February 2020 at 4pm

  • Date listed

    7 February 2020

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Mathematics

Working pattern

Full time

Full-time equivalent salary

Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £24,373 to £40,490

Additional allowances

TLR 2.1 (£2796)

Lead Teacher in Mathematics job summary

To be relentlessly committed to the very highest student outcomes through the planning and delivery of the highest quality learning in accordance with the Teacher Standards and our Career Stage Expectations. Students: • To plan and prepare lessons, schemes of work and assessment materials; • To keep relevant, accurate records of student attendance, achievement and targets as required by school policy. • To provide such information as and when required; • To challenge inappropriate behaviour wherever it may be encountered and to promote excellent behaviour through the use of the school’s Behaviour for Learning Policy; • To maintain the teaching base and facilities, resources and equipment in good order, maintaining an atmosphere conducive to learning, taking account of Health and Safety regulations as appropriate • To foster close, collaborative and co-operative contacts with colleagues within the academy and across the school; • To promote a strong academy identity through involvement with: assemblies, academy and tutor group activities; inter-academy competitions; • To promote positive student behaviour within the academy and across the school; Parents: • To foster positive working relationships with parents of both teaching groups and tutor group; • To ensure parents receive timely and appropriate information about behaviour and attendance, levels of attainment and progress; • To contribute to case conferences and re-admittance meetings in accordance with the Behaviour for Learning Policy. Wider community: • To make effective use of external resources to promote learning; • To ensure effective relationships with local external support agencies when required. School: • To be a member of a duty team, when assigned, and carry out such duties punctually and efficiently; • To teach aspects of the personal, social education and citizenship programme as directed; • To attend meetings according to the agreed published meeting schedule; • To engage with extra-curricular activities as agreed; • To be familiar with, and implement, school policies and where appropriate, to be involved in the review of policy and practice; • To undertake performance review as part of the agreed Appraisal Policy; • To participate fully in activities linked to Continuous Professional Development.

Commitment to safeguarding

Whitecross is committed to safeguarding. The post involves contact with children and therefore involves regulated activity. All such posts will be subject to enhanced safeguarding checks.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. The school will undertake online checks of shortlisted candidates in accordance with our Privacy Notice for Applicants.

Successful candidates will be required to follow our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and will also be required to sign a self-disclosure statement. Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy can be found on our website.

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About Whitecross Hereford

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
939 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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School website
Whitecross Hereford website
Email address
cmcdougall@whitecross.hereford.sch.uk
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Whitecross is an 11 to 16, mixed comprehensive academy located in beautiful surroundings on the edge of Hereford with over 945 students on
roll. As a PFI school, we relocated to our new site in 2006 and enjoy fantastic facilities.

We became a specialist sports college in 2004, something that is still very close to our hearts. The message of sporting excellence is a
universal one and the values of teamwork, leadership, hard work and sacrifice lie at the heart of our identity.

This is a school with kindness and compassion at its core where thinking of others is a real strength. It is a place where students take part in an
incredible range of additional experiences outside the classroom, expanding their horizons and enriching their lives and where all students
regardless of starting point or background can excel

Every adult at Whitecross is committed to the following principles.

They form our DNA – the heart of who we are:
⬧ Outstanding learning for all
⬧ We are role models living our values
⬧ The highest standards everywhere

Therefore we:
⬧ Believe everyone belongs and everyone matters
⬧ Know good relationships focussed on learning are vital to success
⬧ Actively inspire and enthuse young people
⬧ Believe every lesson and every moment at school matters
⬧ Believe in overcoming barriers not making excuses
⬧ Embrace feedback and value practice in the pursuit of excellence

So that our students:
⬧ Feel they belong and are safe
⬧ Believe that by working hard they will improve
⬧ Are motivated to achieve great things
⬧ Recognise and realise their potential
⬧ Care about the people around them
⬧ Have outstanding levels of literacy and numeracy
⬧ Make exceptional progress

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