Lead Teacher of Psychology
London Academy of Excellence, London, E15 1AJThis job expired on 15 November 2021
Job start date
5 January 2022
Closing date
15 November 2021 at 9am
Date listed
20 October 2021
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Psychology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Up to £42k, depending on skills and experience
Lead Teacher of Psychology job summary
The role
We seek a Lead Teacher of Psychology who shares our passionate commitment to academic standards and to advancing the social mobility of our students. Students attain exceptional outcomes and are taught the AQA A level specification. Each year, many LAE students progress to study psychology and associated subjects at the country’s leading universities. The successful candidate will line manage two psychology teachers and be responsible for the academic progress of 200+ year 12 and 13 students.
LAE can offer you:
• The opportunity to gain experience of teaching and working with highly motivated students in one of the country’s leading sixth form schools.
• An intellectually stimulating working environment characterised by a culture of professional trust and collegiate working that promotes autonomy, innovation, and rigour.
• Access to an outstanding package of regular, high-quality continuous professional development and support.
• A modern and positive learning environment minutes from the Olympic Park and Stratford Station.
• Collaborative working with our world-class partner schools: Brighton College, Caterham School, Eton College, Forest School, Highgate School and UCS Hampstead.
• A package of employee benefits including access to a Cycle Scheme, Tech Scheme, and discounted local gym memberships.
LAE is a diverse and inclusive school, committed to supporting staff and students to be themselves and succeed on merit.
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 London Academy of Excellence
- School type
- Free School, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Sixth form and collegejobs
- School size
- 474 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- London Academy of Excellence website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- james.kane@lae.ac.uk
- Phone number
- 02033011480
London Academy of Excellence (LAE) is an academic free school sixth form located in the heart of Stratford, close to the Olympic Park and just two minutes from Stratford Station (zone 2/3), with excellent links to all parts of London.
LAE is one of the highest-performing sixth form colleges in the United Kingdom. Our average grade is an A* and our ALPS 1 value-added score places us in the top 1% of schools nationally for progress. LAE consistently delivers outstanding A level results and university destinations for all students but has achieved particular success in helping students from less advantaged backgrounds gain places at the finest universities in the UK and around the world. Over 1,200 of our alumni have progressed to a Russell Group university and over 120 to Oxford or Cambridge.
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