Teacher of Business (Economics Desirable)
Moseley School and Sixth Form, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 9UU13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2025 or September 2025
Closing date
5 February 2025 at 8am
Date listed
22 January 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Business Studies and Economics
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPR
Teacher of Business (Economics Desirable) job summary
Contract Start Date: April 2025 or September 2025
Core Purpose:
Ensure that students make positive progress against prior attainment, by ensuring that teaching is consistently of a high quality, progress is monitored, and appropriate measures are taken to address any areas of underachievement.
We are looking for a dynamic, passionate Teacher of Business to join our Vocational and Social Sciences (VocSS) Faculty to help make a positive impact on the young people at our school. The teaching of Economics in addition is also desirable.
This role has arisen due to the growing popularity of our Business and Economics courses within the Vocational and Social Sciences Faculty (VocSS) which continues to expand, reflecting the increasing demand for these vital subjects.
We are a highly popular faculty with our students, having achieved outcomes that are progressive year on year, for those who choose to study Vocational and Social Science subjects. The VocSS’s Faculty is the largest optional faculty in the school at KS3, KS4 and KS5 and is made up of Vocational, including Computing, IT, Business and Economics and Social Sciences including Sociology, Psychology, Applied Psychology, Criminology, Law and Health and Social Care. We pride ourselves on the fact that our faculty members have real world knowledge and/or experience within their specialist subject.
Our aim to continue to continue to make all subjects within the VocSS Faculty a key choice for students at Key Stage 4 and 5 and welcome the opportunity to extend our team and drive the success of the Faculty.
Our perfect teaching candidate will:
- Be a consistently good to outstanding practitioner
- Be committed to exceptional standards of teaching and learning
- Be able to motivate, challenge and inspire students to achieve their best
- Be able to establish and develop good relationships with students and staff
- Help us to improve progress and outcomes for students
- Contribute to our core vision and values
Responsibilities for all teachers:
- Meet the relevant Teachers’ Standards
- Promote the values and aims of the school
- Follow all relevant school policies
- To be aware of, and assume the appropriate level of responsibility for, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and to report any concerns in accordance with the school’s safeguarding policies
- Create and maintain effective partnerships with parents and carers
- Treat students, parents and colleagues fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect
- To comply with the school’s Health & Safety policy and statutory requirements
- Plan lessons and sequences of lessons, ensuring lessons have pace and variety, that learning is personalised to meet individual learning needs and that teaching caters for the full range of learning styles of students
- Ensure that teaching reflects the diversity of backgrounds of students and promotes mutual respect
- Contribute to regular curriculum review to help maintain a relevant, stimulating and innovative curriculum provision
- Take responsibility for personal continuing professional development to ensure that knowledge and skills are kept up to date with respect to subject(s), pedagogy and curriculum developments plus wider school, local and national issues
- Assess progress of students in line with policy and records to ensure regular feedback and encouragement is given to students to take responsibility for their own learning
- Instigate measures to address the causes of identified underperformance and monitor the effectiveness of those measures
- Submit assessments to the school database, and complete students’ reports for parents’ consultation deadlines in school calendar, ensuring they provide an accurate record of the progress of each individual and meeting high quality standards
- Complete registers to monitor attendance and punctuality and take action to address any issues
- Utilise appropriate behaviour management strategies in lessons in line with school policy
- Participate in lesson observation and other measures to monitor delivery of learning outcomes and quality of teaching and implement measures to address any improvement issues identified
- Participate in the appraisal process, identifying personal professional development priorities which will impact on students’ learning
Responsibilities of form tutors:
- Provide support to a form group within our House system including the planning, preparation and delivery of tutor sessions
- Promote positive attitudes to learning through learning conversations with students and families
- Establish a learning culture for students with high expectations for attendance, punctuality, conduct and performance
- Monitor students’ progress in terms of personal development and instigate measures to address any identified concerns
- Instigate measures to address the causes of identified underperformance and monitor the effectiveness of those measures
- Complete registers to monitor attendance and punctuality and take action to address any issues
- Utilise appropriate behaviour management strategies in lessons in line with school policy
Your application must be received by 8.00am on Wednesday 5th February 2025.
Please note this advert may close when sufficient applications are received.
Interviews will be held on Monday 10th February 2025.
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Moseley School and Sixth Form
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1454 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Moseley School and Sixth Form website (opens in new tab)
The staff at Moseley School and Sixth Form are a passionate team of professionals. Our purpose is to inspire excellence in character and scholarship. The students and their families have bought into this vision. Together we form a friendly and dedicated community.
Moseley School and Sixth Form is a large comprehensive secondary school with a thriving sixth form. Moseley School first opened its doors in 1923. We value our long history whilst being excited about our future. There are 1300 students, 150 teaching and support staff, excellent facilities housed in a grade two listed building, a modern building which opened in 2012 and a recently completed sports complex and extensive grounds. Staff enjoy subsidised healthcare options and access to our on-site gym.
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