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Teacher of Business Studies

Landau Forte Academy, QEMS, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AH

This job expired on 22 April 2020 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2020

• Closing date

  22 April 2020 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 April 2020

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Full-time equivalent salary: Competitive
• Additional allowances:

  • A supportive, cohesive and exciting working environment

  • The chance to work with genuinely enthusiastic and happy students

  • Career prospects within an innovative and ambitious Multi Academy Trust

  • A meal allowance, commensurate with your working hours

  • Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS)

  • Healthcare Cash Plan, from Westfield Health

Teacher of Business Studies job summary

Our opportunity for you

LFCT are excited to announce a job vacancy for Teacher of Business Studies across both KS4 and KS5.

Do you want to work with inquisitive students and collaborative staff? Do you value being at the heart of a vibrant city? Does this sound like your perfect job?

Then Landau Forte Academy QEMS and Sixth Form is the place for you.

*Key information

· Hours: 40.75

· Weeks: 52

· Contract: Full time

· Start date: September 2020

· Salary: Competitive

· Closing Date: 22 April 2020

*What we can offer you

· A supportive, cohesive and exciting working environment

· The chance to work with genuinely enthusiastic and happy students

· Career prospects within an innovative and ambitious Multi Academy Trust

· A meal allowance, commensurate with your working hours

· Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS)

· Healthcare Cash Plan, from Westfield Health

*Person specification

The person we are looking for should:

· Be creative and hardworking.

· Have excellent personal organisational skills.

· Be adaptable with a good sense of humour and able to take the initiative.

· Be a very good team worker with the capacity to build relationships at all levels across the organisation.

· Be prepared to contribute to broad aspects of Business Studies and related activities.

· Be proactive; a forward thinker with an effective grasp of developments within Business Studies.

· Be able to work successfully as part of a highly effective team.

Qualifications and experience:

· A graduate with qualified teacher status.

· An outstanding teacher in Business Studies with a strong teaching record or newly/recently qualified (NQTs welcome).

· Relevant qualifications (both formal and through appropriate experience) to meet the challenge of the appointment.

· Excellent in-depth knowledge of the place of Business Studies in the development of young people and of the place of Business Studies within the wider curriculum.

*Job description

Introduction to the Department

· This area of the curriculum is high profile with an excellent record of success both in examination courses and in the wider achievements of our students including Young Enterprise.

· The College is a first class learning environment with excellent facilities and equipment. The Business area is located in our purpose built learning centre which is equipped to office environment standards with access to a substantial number of PCs. (The College has a network which is both hard wired and wireless).

Duties of role will include:

· To be able to secure high standards of learning and achievement across the full ability range at both Key Stage 4 (GCSE and BTEC First) and Key Stage 5 (A level and BTEC National)

· To be able to demonstrate excellent subject knowledge

· To be able to demonstrate a good working knowledge and understanding of a range of teaching, learning and assessment strategies and know how to use them to provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential

· To have high expectations of young people

· To be prepared to contribute to broad aspects of Business Studies and enterprise activities

· To be able to work effectively as part of a team, to identify opportunities for sharing good practice

Planning and deliver high quality teaching and learning which:

· Develops the whole learner, including Business skills of enquiry and curiosity; is engaging, appropriately challenging and relevant.

· Meets the needs of all learners, taking into account the individual requirements of each student.

· Fulfils the demands of the relevant specifications, tutor guides and college ethos.

· Makes a positive impact on student attainment and achievement.

Work with other staff in contributing to student learning including:

· Supporting students outside their timetabled learning sessions through support clinics and tutorials.

· Enhancing students’ experience of Business Studies through involvement in enrichment and extension activities.

· Actively participating in and contributing to Business team meetings.

· Working with other staff to enhance the curriculum, innovate new ideas to improve student outcomes and provide wider enriching experiences for students.

Assessment and Reporting:

· Provide students with regular, incisive feedback in response to their written work.

· Ensure that marking, recording and reporting are in line with college policies.

· Ensure that appropriately challenging targets are set and used with all students, and that these targets are reviewed regularly with respect to attainment and achievement.

· Be able to accurately assess each learning groups’ levels of attainment against student targets and national benchmarks.

Fulfil wider professional responsibilities including:

· Set and maintain high standards, expectations and aspirations for both staff and students, ensuring they are treated with dignity and respect and that they receive appropriate guidance, support and recognition.

· Maintain a safe and well-ordered learning environment, safeguarding students’ health and safety, managing behaviour effectively and rewarding success appropriately.

· Actively seek opportunities for professional development to further enhance pedagogy and practice, and keep up to date with curriculum and qualification changes.

*Landau Forte Academy QEMS and Tamworth Sixth Form

Landau Forte Academy QEMS joined the Landau Forte Charitable Trust in September 2011 and delivers education to 11-16 year olds. Landau Forte Academy Sixth Form is a purpose-built establishment providing Level 3 courses, both Advanced Level and BTEC, for the whole of Tamworth and beyond. The academies are located on a shared campus, but both operate from their own facilities, with Landau Forte Academy Sixth Form having new bespoke, accommodation, which opened in September 2011, with a new Sports Hall that opened in 2013.

*The local area

Tamworth is a historic town surrounded by beautiful countryside, located a short distance from Birmingham. The Academy is located close to the centre of Tamworth, with superb transport links.

Tamworth boasts a range of historical sites and leisure attractions, including: Tamworth Castle; the Tamworth SnowDome and Drayton Manor Amusement Park. Within a 20 minute drive from the town, you can find yourself in the beautiful, open Staffordshire countryside or Birmingham‘s bustling city centre.

· Tamworth is 10 minutes away from the M42, junction 10

· Direct trains from Birmingham (10 minutes) and London (1 hour 15 minutes)

· Birmingham and East Midlands Airports are 30 minutes away

*For your information

If this sounds like the ideal job opportunity for you, please download and read our Information for Applicants document before applying:

http://lfa.ac/LFAQTJobsInfo

*Apply for this job

1. Read the Guidance & Criteria document
http://lfa.ac/LFCTJobsInfo

2. Complete the application form online.

https://www.eteach.com/job/teacher-of-business-studies-1099042?lang=en-GB&frmsrh=Y

3. Or send your application

You can post your completed application, along with a covering letter to:

HR Officer

Landau Forte Charitable Trust

Ashby Road

Tamworth

Staffordshire

B79 8AH

All appointments made are subject to satisfactory references and a criminal background check. Landau Forte Charitable Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required for this post.

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 Landau Forte Academy, QEMS

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 924 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Landau Forte Academy, QEMS website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@lfct.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/landau-forte-academy-qems (opens in new tab)

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