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  • Job start date

    1 September 2019

  • Closing date

    7 March 2019 at 12am (midnight)

  • Date listed

    13 February 2019

Job details

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Subjects

Physics, Chemistry, Biology

Working pattern

Full time

Full-time equivalent salary

Main pay range 1 to Main pay range 6, £27,871 to £39,352

Science Teacher job summary

The Board of Trustees wish to appoint a talented and motivated Science Teacher to join our fast growing, ambitious and Outstanding Academy. We are able to offer key subject responsibilities to the right candidate and as a rapidly developing school, The Kingston Academy will provide you with exceptional opportunities for career development and progression. We are particularly interested in candidates who are specialist in physics or chemistry, but biology specialists are also invited to apply.

The Kingston Academy is a new Secondary School in North Kingston, which opened for the first time in September 2015 with a cohort of Year 7 pupils. The school will grow annually by an additional year group until 2021. TKA has received a substantial capital grant for the refurbishment of the existing educational facilities and for additional new modern buildings. Our mission is to provide a world-class education for all the young people within our community to ensure that every pupil is safe, happy and succeeds. In Autumn 2019, the beginning of our fifth year of operation, we will have 900 pupils across the five year groups of 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11.

Candidates wishing to visit the school are welcomed and encouraged. To arrange a visit please contact Justine Free on 0208 465 6200 or email jfree@thekingstonacademy.org. However, if you are unable to visit the school prior to the deadline, your application will not be disadvantaged in any sense.

The successful candidate will possess the following attributes:

- QTS

- Broad base of subject knowledge

- Ability to teach across key stages 3, 4 and 5 ultimately

- Successful training, teaching practice and / or successful prior teaching experience

- Awareness of, and willingness to implement new digital approaches to teaching

- Clear understanding of successful classroom practice

- Possess a range of teaching and learning strategies

- Ability to work effectively as part of a curriculum / subject team

- Effective ICT skills

- Ability to maintain good classroom behaviour

- Effective organizational skills e.g. lesson preparation, scheme of work development, meeting deadlines, good record keeping etc.

- Effective inter-personal skills

- Ideally with experience of running field trips and / or curriculum enhancing residential trips.

We are willing to consider applications from newly qualified teachers.

Assessment Process

Our selection procedure will aim to identify with rigour whether the candidate fulfills the requirements of the post and will include the consideration of the candidate’s suitability to work with children and young people. The process will include:

- Teaching an observed lesson to a full class of pupils;

- Meeting with a panel of our pupils for informal question and answer session;

- Interview with Subject Lead, Deputy Head and Head Teacher.

We look forward to receiving your application.

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 The Kingston Academy

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
1176 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19

Secondary School

School location

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