EXPIREDThis job expired on 6 May 2021
Job start date
1 September 2021
Closing date
6 May 2021 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 April 2021
Job details
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Computing
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS (Inner London) + £2,000 Harris Allowance + TLR Available
Additional allowances
In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package. Please visit the Harris careers website for more information.
Teacher of Computing job summary
Harris Academy Clapham is looking to appoint an experienced, qualified Teacher of Computing who wants to be part of a recently opened and growing academy.
Located within easy reach of both Clapham Common and Clapham South tube stations, Harris Academy Clapham is at the heart of Lambeth. Your work will have the power to transform life opportunities where it is needed most. Working alongside Harris Federation colleagues who have wide experience in opening new schools, your job is to help shape the ethos and culture of the academy for the benefit of children in south London.
Your opportunity
Your role will be:
To play a crucial part in developing and adapt the classroom curriculum to meet students’ needs and ensuring that students develop a depth and love of Computing
To make sure all students learn to read, write and speak confidently, fluently and accurately
To make sure all students develop a deep and connected knowledge and skills of Computing
To share and support the academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth
To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher/form tutor.
A TLR will be available for a suitably qualified and experienced candidate.
We offer you the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive academy environment. You would be part of a Federation established in developing practitioners and nurturing excellent future leaders, with unrivalled opportunities for progression; whatever your aspirations as a teacher, middle or senior leader. Our Teaching School Alliance provides a range of bespoke courses and qualifications, including our Aspiring Leaders NPQML and NPQSL programmes to help you achieve your ambitions more quickly.
What we are looking for:
We look for talented individuals who want to be a part of a newly established academy that will grow each year until we are full. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about teaching and have:
Subject expertise – you will have excellent subject knowledge and be committed to on-going professional development
Flexibility – currently we have Year 7 students, from September it will be Years 7 and 8. We will have to work together
Commitment – we will all need to go above and beyond to make Harris Academy Clapham the best it can be
Team spirit – all work is everybody’s work
Sense of humour – Join us in creating a happy and healthy learning culture for our staff and students.
You must hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree to be considered for this role.
Being a part of the Harris Federation
We are recognised as the top performing large multi-academy trust in England for primary and secondary education. Closing the gap between young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers has always been a core mission of Harris. Holding a reputation for bringing transformative approaches to education, we hold a unrivalled track record in achieving success through rapid school improvement.
Our people are at the heart of this success. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of training programmes available at every stage of your career.
We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.
Safeguarding Notice
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
Diversity and Equality
We are committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Further information about the job
The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
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Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
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About Harris Academy Clapham
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 891 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where ‘everything is possible’.
The Clapham curriculum is designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of individual students. Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.
By this we mean that:
every student is supported to fully develop their academic and personal talents; we help students to go on and achieve their dreams and help others
we work with our families to support all our students, including those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities
we are a supportive part of the Lambeth community, working with our neighbours and others as best we can
every member of staff is supported in becoming the best that they can be, including their future career prospects and ambitions.
Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that ‘Everything is Possible’:
Our key values
Endeavour for excellence
Learning to work hard and relish challenge.
Learning to never give up.
Learning to take sensible risks.
Learning to always strive for the best for themselves and each other.
Integrity and honesty
Always acting with kindness.
Treating others the way they would like to be treated.
Self-belief with a global view
Growing to have the agency to achieve their ambitions for themselves and the wider world.
A central core of our ethos is to fully develop students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural wellbeing. We ensure that our students understand their role in making the academy and their community a safer and better place. We do this in a wide variety of ways, including after-school activities, during lessons, school visits and working with a range of external organisations such as local and national charities.
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