Teacher of Drama
Birkenhead Sixth Form College, Wirral, Merseyside, CH43 8SQThis job expired on 24 April 2024
Job start date
20 August 2024
Closing date
24 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 April 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Drama
Working pattern
- Part time: 0.25 higher fraction available to a candidate who can offer GCSE, or A level English
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- T1-T9 £30,500- £47,133 (FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Experience of teaching A-level Drama
- Experience of delivering AQA Drama
- Experience of working in a demanding environment where high levels of organisation are required
- Ability to teach up to A-level
- Up to date knowledge & understanding of educational developments relating to the curriculum area
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
- Ability to form & maintain appropriate relationships & personal boundaries with young people
- Ability to respond flexibly & creatively to new challenges & opportunities
- Ability to prioritise & meet deadlines
- Ability to use Information Technology effectively
- Excellent communication, interpersonal & organisational skills
What the school offers its staff
You will be joining a highly successful, innovative and nationally recognised sixth form College. The College has received numerous awards for its innovation, social mobility and student experience. The most recent being in November 2023 where the College won ‘Most inspiring Sixth Form’ at the Educate North Awards.
In response to the pandemic and disruption to the learning of students the College introduced a new timetable in 2021/2022 to combat the deficits that students have. This timetable has huge benefits to both students and teachers. Students receive an additional 60 minutes teacher each week, meaning that students will receive 5.5 hours of teaching in each of their subjects each week. Whilst student teaching time has increased, the new timetable has reduced the overall teaching time for teachers each week. Full time teachers will teach a maximum of 4 classes, 4 times a week and teachers have their own groups. This is designed to give teachers the time to plan, assess and monitor their students. The timetable change has been a major success.
The College currently has a 16 to 19-year-old student population of 1500. Demand for places for places at the College is very high and as a result the College has recently expanded with the opening of a 1.7m new state of the art teaching facility in September 2021. A further brand new 3 storey classroom block was opened in April 2023 as part of the College’s expansion project.
The College is committed to its core values of Positivity, Ambition, Resilience and Thoughtfulness, and these values shape everything we do. Our ethos is centred on the scientific evidence that tells us that everyone can achieve success through purposeful hard work as opposed to the talent myth, and this enables learners to make rapid progress unshackled by any limits previously placed upon them.
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 Birkenhead Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Sixth form and collegejobs
- School size
- 0 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Birkenhead Sixth Form College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- haw@bsfc.ac.uk
- Phone number
- 01516525575
You will be joining a highly successful, innovative and nationally recognised sixth form college. The College was awarded the UK Sixth Form College of the Year by the TES in 2018 and this followed being graded outstanding in all areas by OFSTED in December 2016. All staff play a vital role in the experience that students have with us and ultimately their success.
The College currently has a 16 to 19-year-old student population of 1450. Demand for places for places at the college is very high and as a result the college has recently expanded with the opening of a 1.7m new state of the art teaching facility in September 2021. A further brand new 3 storey classroom block is opening in April 2023 as part of the college’s expansion project.
In response to the pandemic and disruption to the learning of students the college introduced a new timetable in 2021/2022 to combat the deficits that students have. This includes teaching time increasing by 60 minutes each week we are confident that the 5.5 hours students receive each week is one of, if not the highest in the country. Whilst student teaching time has increased, the new timetable has reduced the overall teaching time for teachers each week. Full time teachers will teach a maximum of 4 classes, 4 times a week and teachers have their own groups, we do not have shared teaching groups at the college.
Arranging a visit to Birkenhead Sixth Form College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email haw@bsfc.ac.uk.
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