Lead Teacher of Chemistry
Sir Graham Balfour High School, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 1NRThis job expired on 24 March 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
24 March 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
8 March 2023
Job details
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- View all Chemistryjobs
Working pattern
- View all Full timejobs - 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,000 - £43,685
Additional allowances
TLR 2.1 - £3,017
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic Lead Teacher of Chemistry to join our very successful Science Faculty. The successful candidate will have a firm commitment to raising whole-school achievement; have a professional approach to staff development; high expectations; and a determination to succeed.
The faculty is at an exciting point in its development and enjoying considerable success in public exams at all levels. We are looking to appoint a forward thinking, able professional to join the Faculty in its continuing development. This post would suit any well-qualified and ambitious teacher of Chemistry.
What the school offers its staff
At Sir Graham Balfour we offer:
- A friendly, well-motivated staff, who embrace willingly a culture of professional development.
- An ever growing reputation in the local community which has resulted in the school being consistently oversubscribed in an area where student rolls are falling.
- A very positive climate for learning.
- A first rate learning environment. We are housed in buildings completed in 2002 and financed via a PFI initiative.
- Innovative 14-19 collaboration and an increasing roll at KS5.
- A commitment to inclusive practice.
Further details about the role
For an application pack, please access our website, www.sirgrahambalfour.co.uk or contact Mrs Vicki McKeen, Headteacher’s PA, on vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk or telephone 01785 223490.
The closing date for applications is: 1.30pm Friday 24th March 2023.
Please return completed applications to vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk
Shortlisting for this post will take place by Monday 27th March 2023 and successful applicants will be contacted no later than 3.20pm on the same day. If you have not heard from us by this time, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Interviews will take place week commencing Monday 27th March 2023; will include a tour around the school, meetings with the Science Faculty, delivery of a lesson and interviews for the short-listed candidates. Further details of the lesson will be sent out to the successful candidates.
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About Sir Graham Balfour High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 954 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01785 223490
Welcome to Sir Graham Balfour School which OFSTED in May 2019 found to be a ‘Good’ school. I hope you find the information it contains useful and informative. Our vision is summed up in our mission statement – ‘Learning, Working and Succeeding Together’ For us, the ‘together’ is absolutely critical; collaboration, cooperation and teamwork are essential for developing the skills, knowledge and confidence necessary for academic and personal excellence. As well as the drive to achieve academically, the ability to self-regulate, to communicate clearly with others, to know and be proud of who you are, to be compassionate to others and to be ambitious for yourself and others are equally important. We passionately believe that the circumstances of birth or upbringing should not be the key determining factors to success in life and we are relentless in our ambition for ALL children to achieve as well as possible at Sir Graham Balfour School, regardless of their sexual orientation, socio-economic, ethnic, religious or gender status. Our Values Our aim as a school, working alongside parents and our community, is to help students to become outstanding and effective citizens; to make responsible, appropriate and healthy choices in all things. Staff and parents will not always be there, at the point where critical decisions need to be made. This is why we are committed to values based learning; rules prescribe a set of appropriate/inappropriate behaviours (e.g. don’t run in the corridors) which are specific to given contexts, whereas values provide a set of aspirational guidelines within which children must choose the right behaviour or action for the vast array of contexts they will be faced with in life (e.g. how do I need to move around the school if I am taking responsibility for myself and others?). These are the values which we believe will help our students to become excellent citizens of Stafford and beyond: Commitment to excellence Responsibility for ourselves and others Care for the local and wider Community Respect, Kindness and Compassion for ourselves and others Perseverance and resilience Ambition for ourselves and others Pride in working hard and the success it brings Our values drive and shape every aspect of school life, taking the place of school rules. They seek to reinforce the development of the whole person, in addition to the academic. They are values which will, if routinely exemplified and embedded, give our young people all the skills and characteristics necessary to become outstanding citizens of the future.
Arranging a visit to Sir Graham Balfour High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vmckeen@sirgrahambalfour.staffs.sch.uk.
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