Leading Practitioner for Science
Tor Bridge High, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8UN7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
15 May 2024 at 9am
Date listed
26 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- LPS 2 - 6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Leadership and Management
- Provide leadership in curriculum planning
- Ensure that all colleagues are reflecting and evaluating the effectiveness of their curriculum, using evidence-based teaching strategies, and supporting colleagues to improve their pedagogy and practice through high-quality instructional coaching.
- Lead and inspire others in teaching and learning
- Enable all teachers to achieve proficiency in teaching and learning, through coaching and mentoring, as well as through the provision of CPD and INSET training, to raise attainment across the school. Support the ITT programme by delivering aspects of training and mentoring to ECTs and non-QTS teachers as well as supporting with new colleagues’ induction programme into the school.
- Respond to the teaching and learning needs of the school
- Assist SLT and curriculum leaders in planning, monitoring and evaluating their continuous improvement strategies, in line with the school improvement plan.
- Develop and lead a team of coaches in embedding a robust and high quality coaching programme across the school, which contributes to improving outcomes of students
Teaching and Learning
- Be an outstanding teacher
- Demonstrate an ability to motivate and challenge students of all abilities across Key Stages 3-5 and have a proven track record of success in raising student attainment. Manage behaviour effectively to create a safe, respectful and nurturing environment so that students can focus on learning.
- Model outstanding teaching
- Provide open door provision for staff to observe and discuss teaching and learning strategies, and lead collaborative planning and development, including the sharing of resources and best practice.
- To be an effective teaching and learning communicator, coach and/or mentor
- Use coaching and mentoring to enable teaching staff to achieve their full potential, and to create bespoke programmes for targeted teachers across the school.
- To support the embedding of incremental coaching through the DDI process and evaluate its impact
- Support ‘mentoring support plans’ and the capability process for staff required to improve professional practice
- Disseminate evidence-based practice across the school and advise on effective practice, research and CPD provision
- Deliver high quality CPD that supports the whole school strategy for teaching and learning, and address any gaps identified through the evaluation of teaching and learning. To support curriculum teams in planning and delivering high quality subject mastery
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Experience of and ability to lead on curriculum planning
Use a whole school curriculum narrative to analyse and provide planning support of the curriculum, which respects the differences in individual subject areas.
- Secure knowledge and understanding of cognitive science in education
- Communicate coherently and constructively how cognitive science can support the planning, practice and assessing of pupil learning.
- Experience of having designed aspects of the curriculum
- Planned, implemented and evaluated effective schemes of work, high quality resources, and/or experience of leading successful enrichment programmes.
- Experience of leading a coaching team, working to support the significant success of others
- Knowledge of the national secondary education system
- Ability to interpret relevant examination requirements and national curricula. Be aware of emerging policy changes and developments led by DFE, OFQUAL and OFSTED, and actively seek a shared understanding of these implications in the context of Tor Bridge High.
Behaviours
- Genuine passion and belief in the potential of every student.
- Excellent interpersonal, planning and organisational skills.
- Resilience, motivation and commitment to achieving excellence.
- Reflective and proactive in seeking feedback to constantly improve practice.
- Dedication to participating in regular CPD to establish classroom practice.
- Maintain professional integrity in line with the National Teaching Standards.
Professional Learning
- To keep fully up to date with educational evidence-based research.
- To keep abreast of high impact leadership strategies supporting school improvement.
- To promote development opportunities for staff within the school through external agencies, courses, mentoring or coaching.
- To identify and promote talent and enthusiasm, providing development opportunities for all staff.
What the school offers its staff
Relationships & Culture
Building a positive culture underpins any successful school and we, therefore, work hard as a team to create a culture rooted in mutual respect, in which teachers can teach and students can learn. We believe that students should be Ready, Kind and Safe for learning and our Ten Habits of Excellence are explicitly taught through our pastoral curriculum. At Tor Bridge High, we pride ourselves on setting the highest of standards for our students and we uphold these through positive relationships that are built on trust, kindness and safety. Staff are supported through a consistent and centralised behaviour system underpinned by a dedicated pastoral team.
Continuing Professional Development
At both Tor Bridge High and the Ted Wragg Trust, we invest in our staff as part of our Trust ‘Grow Great People’ strategy. We are committed to growing you into the best leader possible and believe that staff development is fundamental to building a highly ambitious and aspirational school. Moreover, we are proud to have a staff body who have high expectations for themselves and who model these to our students in order to create the same culture at all levels. Staff are the most valuable asset within a school, thus, our second-to-none commitment to coaching encompasses both 'instructional coaching' for teaching and 'leadership coaching' to foster the development of our teams and the continuous improvement of our staff. At Tor Bridge High, there is a culture of feedback with an emphasis on self-reflection and impact. All staff receive personalised instructional coaching every two weeks. At Tor Bridge High, we want to create dynamic and innovative teams where staff are learning collaboratively from one another; we encourage staff to seek these opportunities both internally and externally and to deliberately incorporate evidence-informed practice into their teaching to improve our school performance.
Curriculum & worklife balance
We believe passionately that every student will succeed through an ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum that meets the needs of all students and through highly skilled adaptive teaching. Our curriculum is driven by academic rigour and powerful knowledge that prepares students for the rigours of future study and work. What is more, we are committed to celebrating diversity and inclusivity through our curriculum. We have a centralised curriculum, collaborating across departments and other schools to both share resources and to avoid duplication and unnecessary work at all levels. We provide our curriculum teams with the autonomy to decide the very best curriculum to enable our learners to thrive and flourish. The centralised curriculum ensures that all students have an equity of experience and ensures that teachers are not burdened by daily planning; instead they can focus on adaptive teaching and meeting the needs of all learners.
Community, Personal Development & Enrichment
Tor Bridge High is the heart of the community and therefore, we take pride in our responsibility to serving our local families through strengthening family and community engagement, and helping the community to access services and additional resources. We understand the social and economic challenges faced by the community and the impact these can have on our students and their families, and we believe that we have an important role to play in tackling inequality by working in close partnership with families and the wider community. Education is not simply a collection of grades obtained at the end of examinations; education is about holistic growth and cultural development. We aim to accelerate the personal growth of all students by providing them access to a range of experiences that may not otherwise be available to them. This includes trips to theatres, galleries and concerts; residential trips that develop character; sporting opportunities; charity expeditions abroad and so much more. Further growing the breadth of extra-curricular activities is important to fulfilling our vision to ensure that every single child has access to culturally rich experiences.
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 Tor Bridge High
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1170 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Tor Bridge High website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- TBH-HR@torbridge.net
- Phone number
- 01752 207872
Our school is a well-established secondary school and sixth form, which caters for up to 1,200 pupils and has been oversubscribed for the past 7 years.
We are on a journey of school improvement with a relentless focus on high expectations with an aim to improve outcomes for all our students. This was reflected in our 2019 Year 11 results where we saw an overall increase in students’ progress - a reflection of the dedication of our staff for continued school improvement.
Arranging a visit to Tor Bridge High
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