Religious Studies Teacher
Alperton Community School, Wembley, Middlesex, HA0 4JEThis job expired on 10 March 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
10 March 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
27 February 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Religious education
Working pattern
- Full time: Hours of work: Teachers Terms and Conditions
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 year fixed term - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- Inner London Pay Scales MPS (£36,745 - £47,666) / UPS (£52,526 - £56,959)
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Qualified Teacher Status within the relevant subject area.
- Experience of teaching all or most of the age range served by the School (11 – 18).
- Ability to work within a team.
- Good ICT skills
- A sound knowledge and understanding of best practice in the accurate assessment of student work
- Successful experience of organising, delivering and evaluating the teaching of the subject area both with regard to methodology as well as content.
- Understanding of the requirements of the National Curriculum and developments in teaching of GCSE and post 16 within the subject area.
- Understanding of, commitment to and experience of, promoting equal opportunities.
- Enthusiasm, energy and commitment to teaching
What the school offers its staff
- A friendly, highly supportive and committed working environment.
- Culture of success and professional growth
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Employee assistance programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension scheme
- Wellbeing
- Health insurance
- Free parking
- Excellent support for ECTs in their induction year
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 Alperton Community School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1948 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Alperton Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@alperton.brent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02089022038
We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 350 students in our sixth form. Due to our increased popularity as a school, we expanded our roll in 2018. Alperton Community School is an inclusive school with a student intake that reflects a wonderfully diverse and vibrant local community. Our students are very well behaved, work hard and are ambitious to succeed. Our most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2021 graded our school as Good "Pupils like coming to school and they enjoy their lessons"; "Pupils can focus because they feel safe"; "Leaders’ expectations of all pupils are high"; "Pupils behave well in school. They focus on their learning in lessons. Pupils follow teachers’ instructions and listen to one another".
Student progress at GCSE and A Level has been above national averages for many years with disadvantaged students performing well above national averages. Our progress 8 score has been consistently “above average”. We also see high numbers of our students’ progress to Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities. Student attendance and the percentage of students who remain in education, employment or training are also well above national averages.
Recent awards include the 2022 Pearson “Making a Difference” Award; the school was recently shortlisted for the TES School of the Year and won the TES Maths Team of the Year. We are also one of only four schools in the country to hold the Platinum Professional Development Mark.
This is an exceptional opportunity. It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportive and committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth. The school offers excellent support for ECTs in their induction year.
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