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Progress Leader: Psychology

Hilbre High School, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 6EQ

This job expired on 20 March 2023 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2023

• Closing date

  20 March 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 March 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of year, department, curriculum or phase
• Key stage: Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: Psychology
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS
• Additional allowances:

  TLR2a

What skills and experience we're looking for

Essential

• A good relevant honours degree.
• A recognised teaching qualification.

Desirable

• Evidence of continued professional development within the relevant subject area.

Essential

• Experience of teaching GCSE and A Level Psychology.
• A proven track record as a good/outstanding classroom teacher.
• A proven track record of high standards of achievement.
• The ability to use data effectively to track progress, set targets and implement appropriate intervention strategies.
• Experience as a Form Tutor.

Desirable

• A proven ability of successfully leading a curriculum project or initiative.

Essential

• The ability to use an imaginative range of teaching strategies to promote high expectations and high levels of challenge.
• The ability to deploy teaching and learning strategies appropriately to suit the needs of students of differing ability.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of strategies for promoting good relationships with students and effective behaviour management techniques.
• Good working knowledge of recent developments within the Psychology curriculum.
• Confident use of ICT.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Essential

• Ability to work under pressure and determination to succeed.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral, with staff and students.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Desire to involve yourself in the wider life of the school.
• A positive outlook, well-motivated, enthusiastic and energetic.
• Commitment to improvement and professional development.
• Patience, resilience and a sense of humour.

What the school offers its staff

In our most recent Ofsted inspection, in October 2021, we maintained our status as a ‘good’ school. We offer a friendly, supportive working environment, which values talented, committed staff and offers excellent professional development opportunities. We are highly committed to managing teacher workload and offer a fortnightly home-based PPA session to all teaching staff.

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding requirements: Hilbre High School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check. Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a child barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures. It is an offence to apply for this role if candidates are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

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Application Recruitment Monitoring Form 2020.docx - 64.2 KB (opens in new tab)

M23 Psychology March 2023.doc - 134 KB (opens in new tab)

Job Description.doc - 260 KB (opens in new tab)

About Hilbre High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1164 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Hilbre High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0151 625 5996
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hilbre-high-school (opens in new tab)

Hilbre is a hard-working, lively academy where we believe that learning is an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all our students. We pride ourselves in recognising the varied and individual needs of our students and the broad, balanced education we provide, both in and outside the classroom, ensures our students can leave school with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to contribute confidently in today’s ever changing world. At Hilbre High School Humanities College, you will find an 11-18 academy with just over one thousand students on roll. We are an academy which genuinely welcomes people into a partnership with a shared aim; to achieve the most we possibly can, both academically and socially for our students. We believe in success, progress, challenge and the enjoyment of learning and we constantly strive to ensure that all students achieve their very best. Indeed, our pledge is to ensure that every student, whatever their starting point, makes rapid and sustained progress through effective, high quality teaching, in order to achieve the best outcomes within a caring and supportive environment. Our academy has the advantage of being coeducational. This enables us to deliver the full range of curriculum opportunities within a more natural and rounded environment for the social development of our students.

Arranging a visit to Hilbre High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk.

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