Subject Leader or Teacher of Food and Health & Social Care
Sedgefield Community College, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, TS21 3DD4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
10 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of department or curriculum
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- Food technology, Health and social care
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS - UPS
Additional allowances
TLR2b
What skills and experience we're looking for
Knowledge & Experience
- Knowledge and experience of teaching in a secondary school
- Experience delivering Food to secondary age students
- Experience delivering Health & Social Care to secondary age students
- Record of raising standards and maximising student progress.
- Sound knowledge of National Curriculum for Food
- Sound knowledge of National Curriculum for Health & Social Care
- Evidence of relevant and recent CPD and a commitment to ongoing professional development.
- Ability to adapt teaching to embrace new and emerging technologies.
- An ability to inspire interest and excitement in the subject specialism.
- Ability to be inclusive with colleagues and students.
- Ability to motivate and inspire students.
- Commitment to building students as independent learners.
- A commitment to extra-curricular activities.
Skills & Key Criteria
- Proven ability to raise standards in classrooms.
- An understanding of the components which comprise outstanding teaching and learning.
- Use of assessment information to improve own practice and raise standards.
- Effective use of different strategies to promote good learning relationships and high rates of progress in an inclusive environment.
- Use of intervention strategies to address identified issues for individual pupil development and progress.
- Awareness of the latest developments and initiatives in education.
- Able to develop high quality learning strategies and monitor learner progress to raise attainment.
- Effective use of Assessment for Learning to engage learners as active participants in their learning.
- Ability to contribute to curriculum development.
- Ability to plan and resource effective learning programmes and lessons to meet curricular objectives and individual pupils needs.
- Ability and willingness to contribute to school and Academy wide planning activities.
- Strong communication skills – orally and in writing.
What the school offers its staff
If applying for the Subject Leader position, we pride ourselves on being a highly supportive environment and you will benefit from this in an exciting role where you can shape the direction of the subject. Our aim is to offer our young people an exceptional education and as a Subject Leader, you would become a key leader in enabling us to achieve our aim.
If applying for the teacher position, we particularly welcome applications from candidates who are new to the profession. We invest a great deal in our programme for Early Career Teachers and are confident that we are a superb environment for those new to teaching who wish to develop rapidly in the early stages of their career. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join our Technology team.
Please note that whilst the role relates to Food and Health & Social Care, Food is the primary focus.
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 Sedgefield Community College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
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- School size
- 991 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Sedgefield Community College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- personnel@sedgefield.cc
- Phone number
- 01740 617777
At Sedgefield Community College, the word ACHIEVE underpins our desire to support all of our students to reach their full potential during their time with us. It represents our determination for students to succeed in all of the different aspects of life at our school, whether it be reaching their full academic potential in the classroom or being the best that they can be beyond it.
We are a school that successfully combines traditional values of respect and personal responsibility with an appreciation of the necessity to always look forward and continue our development to achieve all that we can.
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