Science teacher
Lostock Hall Academy, Preston, Lancashire, PR5 5URThis job expired on 22 March 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
22 March 2023 at 3:25pm
Date listed
16 March 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science
Working pattern
- Full time: 5 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to UPR3
What skills and experience we're looking for
This post is an excellent opportunity to join a dedicated, innovative and growing community in pursuit of achievement for all. To build on recent growth and success, Lostock Hall Academy is seeking to appoint an ‘outstanding’ teacher of Science to join a highly successful team of experienced Science teachers.
If you possess a genuine passion for Science alongside a capacity to share this effectively with students of all ages this is the job for you.
The successful candidate will:
- Be confident in teaching the AQA GCSE syllabus
- Have outstanding subject knowledge in Science, preferably Physics
- Be an excellent classroom practitioner
- Be an active member of the Science team and wider ‘STEM Faculty’
- Have experience of achieving more than expected progress with students
- Be fastidious, analytical and proactive in using assessment data to inform teaching
- Believe in the potential and growth of all students
- Be passionate about teaching and learning and willing to innovate strategies to secure progress for all
What the school offers its staff
At Lostock Hall Academy we are committed to providing our students with the education and the personal development they need to reach their goals. Through a Growth Mindset approach, we promote a can do attitude to learning, with guided pathways into further and higher education and ultimately, to the career that they want to pursue.
Lostock Hall Academy is first and foremost a happy school. Students enjoy lessons and the relationships between staff and students are excellent, this has been frequently noted by visitors and is mentioned as a strength of the school in the recent Ofsted report. Students behave well and have a good attitude to learning in the classroom.
Further details about the role
Unfortunately we do not offer sponsorship
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.
About Lostock Hall Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 778 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lostock Hall Academy website
- Email address
- m.hall@lostockhallacademy.org
Arranging a visit to Lostock Hall Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email m.hall@lostockhallacademy.org.
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