16 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    April 2025

  • Closing date

    18 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    31 October 2024

Job details

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Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

Design and technology

Working pattern

Full time: 32.5 hours per week

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Salary: Qualified Teachers Pay Scales: Main Pay Scale (MPS) to Upper Pay Scale (UPS)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications: Applicants should have: • An appropriate degree and other qualifications required for the award of QTS. • Qualified Teacher Status (trainees should be on track to achieve QTS before taking up the post) • Teachers who do not have QTS but who feel they may be suitable for the role are encouraged to contact the school in the first instance.

Experience: Applicants should have experience of: • Teaching the subject in a secondary school across the 11-16 age range. • Assessing students for a variety of purposes using appropriate strategies. • Working with whole-school behaviour systems. • Supporting students in the subject with a SEND or EAL

Skills, Knowledge: Applicants should have knowledge and understanding of: • The subject taught, to undergraduate degree level or an equivalent standard • Different approaches to teaching the subject and the strengths and weaknesses of these • The wider role of a teacher in the personal development of pupils, including the main responsibilities of a form tutor • The statutory requirements concerning Equal Opportunities, Health & Safety, SEND and Child Protection

Personal Attributes: Applicants should have the ability to: • Express themselves clearly in written and spoken English • Manage pupil behaviour in line with a school policy • Build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, pupils, parents and the wider community • Organise working time effectively to ensure that all requirements of the post are met punctually and to a high standard

What the school offers its staff

The Inspiration Trust offers all staff a range of benefits via our ‘my lifestyle' portal. All eligible staff will have access to a range of benefits from salary sacrifice schemes and employee discounts.

Commitment to safeguarding

Inspiration Trust is committed to safeguarding and all staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS checks. You will be required to provide references and undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Applying for the job

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About East Point Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
865 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16

East Point Academy is Lowestoft's top performing high school, helping to unlock the potential of this great coastal community. Students make more progress with us than at any other local school, and go on to achieve the best results. In autumn 2016 Ofsted rated us as good with outstanding leadership and management, making us the highest rated school in Lowestoft.

We are part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools, and work together with colleagues across East Anglia to bring the best educational opportunities to our young people.

Arranging a visit to East Point Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@inspirationtrust.org.

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