Science Teacher
Thames Park Secondary School, Grays, RM17 5FPThis job expired on 5 January 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
January/Easter 2024
Closing date
5 January 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
4 December 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time equivalent: 100%
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,350.00 - £42,689.00
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a talented and enthusiastic individual to join our Science department.
The successful candidate will have the ability to teach Science, across the Key Stages and will be creative, innovative, efficient and committed to raising standards. They will have excellent subject knowledge and ideally have a specialism in Biology. You will be joining a highly motivated team of superbly collaborative teachers committed to a creative and stimulating approach to teaching and learning, and to instilling a passion for Science in our students.
Applications from teachers at any stage in their career are welcome: teachers with the ambition to train to become Lead Practitioners; Early Career Teachers; or experienced unqualified teachers who are prepared to train to gain qualified teacher status.
What the school offers its staff
Due to increasing student numbers, Thames Park Secondary School is on a journey of improvement and is seeking to appoint additional staff. We are a school which is firmly rooted in serving our community. We are proud to be an inclusive co-educational comprehensive school where we recognise that success for young people is built on firm foundations of trust, respect, care and hard work. We measure our success by much more than exam results as we recognise that such data tells only a part of the story of each of our young people. Thames Park is already a great place to teach and learn and we have many strengths including:
Motivated and polite pupils, who have a strong voice in the school with diversity champions and student parliament
Staff are aided by extensive and wide-ranging in-house support and coaching, by dedicated and helpful colleagues
Knowledgeable and dynamic Trust with supportive governors, with a robust understanding of education
Thames Park Secondary School is a member of Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust. Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, with twelve member schools within Essex. All schools in the Trust work in equal partnership and are members of the schools’ Co-operative Society. Our Co-operative Values focus on enabling all students to achieve their potential both academically and as young people.
What the school can offer:
Recognition of continuous service
Automatic enrolment into the National Teachers Pension Scheme
Excellent CPD opportunities
Career progression throughout the Trust, with the ability to progress in other schools
The support of an experienced family of schools
National Conditions of Service
Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
Excellent behaviour management policy to support all staff
Wider support network for all staff including managing workloads and work-life balance
Further details about the role
Thames Park Secondary School opened in September 2020 in Thurrock and moved to our state of the art facilities in 2022 in north Grays. Thames Park Secondary School aims to provide an outstanding education for all its students. We have a strong focus on digital education running throughout our curriculum and are passionate about making our learning both exciting and memorable.
We aim to provide all students with an education that is tailored to support their academic development as well as their well-being; physically, mentally and spiritually. The partnership between our school and the parents and carers of our students is crucial in ensuring all the young people in our school develop into honest, open young people with the ability to care for others and develop a sense of social responsibility. We have a clear set of co-operative values; self-help, self-responsibility, equity, equality, democracy and solidarity. These values underpin everything we do. These values are not just words but help to create the “Thames Park Way.”
Our school was judged to be “good” in all areas by Ofsted. The report states that "Pupils are proud of their school" and "In lessons, they show commitment to learning and work hard". The report states that "The positive ethos at the school is valued and pupils contribute towards this in the way they behave and the way in which they take on positions of leadership", at Thames Park, students "capably take responsibility to lead". The report goes on to describe how Thames Park has "a positive learning atmosphere" and how "pupils conduct themselves maturely". The report also states that "Staff enable pupils to consider and discuss the personal issues faced in adult life”.
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 Thames Park Secondary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 566 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Thames Park Secondary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@osborne.coop
- Phone number
- 01375 648901
Thames Park Secondary School. opened to Year 7 pupils in central Grays in September 2020 as a brand new school. Grays is a vibrant, dynamic, rewarding and inspiring place to work, and enjoys excellent transport links. The area is undergoing large scale redevelopment in Europe as part of the Thames Gateway Development. We are part of a £20+ million building programme and will have excellent, purpose-built accommodation with state of the art specialist equipment and facilities in September 2022. We are the newest school in the Osborne Co-operative Academies Trust which comprises of 12 schools.
Arranging a visit to Thames Park Secondary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@osborne.coop.
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