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Second in Science

Weston Secondary School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 9QP

This job expired on 22 October 2024 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 January 2025

• Closing date

  22 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  8 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Science
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time - Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650 - £49,084
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 2.7 £5,641 ; + ; Recruitment and Retention bonus £2000 per annum, fixed for 2 years

What skills and experience we're looking for

Your role

• To assist the Head of Science in leading the strategic direction of the department, fostering a love of science by improving the quality of provision and ensuring positive outcomes for our students. This will involve setting high expectations to ensure the continued delivery of high-quality teaching and learning and high achievement of all students.

Key Responsibilities

• To hold and articulate clear values and moral purpose, focused on providing an excellent education for students in science.
• To demonstrate optimistic personal behaviour, positive relationships and attitudes towards students, staff, parents and members of the local community.
• To sustain wide, current knowledge and understanding of science teaching, and pursue continuous professional development.
• To support the strategic leadership of science, empowering all students and staff to excel.
• Support the Head of Science in developing and implementing policies for science in line with WSS’s commitment to high-quality teaching and learning
• Promote Science, its importance, and the value that it brings across the WSS community
• Have a good understanding of how well Science is being delivered and the impact it has on student achievement
• Use this understanding to feed into the WSS School Improvement Plan and support the Head of Science in producing an action plan for the subject
• Promote students’ spiritual, moral, social, cultural, physical and mental development alongside British values in the teaching of science
• Consult students, parents and staff about science and its effectiveness, and assess the feedback against the school’s values, visions and aims
• Work with the special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO) to ensure the curriculum matches the needs of different students, such as disadvantaged students and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)
• Promote careers education through science and ensure that teaching and learning illustrates how Science might lead to career opportunities
• Use additional staff in science to ensure there is a framework for deployments and that teaching assistants are deployed effectively
• Liaise with Upper Shirley High, the other secondary school within HET, to ensure sharing of best practice and development of a science network at secondary level
• Liaise with HET and the Local Authority where relevant on subject-related events, projects and activities

What the school offers its staff

WE CAN OFFER YOU:

• Excellent CPD opportunities and Training and Development Programmes
• In-house Teaching School
• An individual induction programme supported by a mentor
• Networking groups for Teachers, Business Managers, Site Teams and IT staff
• Eligibility to join the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement for staff working 52 weeks per year which increases with length of service
• Free eye tests up to the value of £25 for users of VDU equipment and contribution up to the value of £60 towards the purchase of glasses specifically for the use of display screen equipment (where all conditions are met)
• Opportunity to become a school workplace Health and Wellbeing representative, meeting with other schools on a termly basis and feeding into the Health and Wellbeing strategy
• Access to the Trust Health and Wellbeing pages
• Access to a staff benefits portal through Vivup
• Free confidential telephone and face to face counselling for staff and family members

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 Weston Secondary School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 806 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Weston Secondary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hr@westonsecondary.co.uk
• Phone number: 02380447820
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/weston-secondary-school (opens in new tab)

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