22 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    12 January 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    17 December 2024

Job details

Visa sponsorship

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Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subjects

Business studies, Economics

Working pattern

Full time (Can be done as a job share): Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS - UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a well-qualified colleague to join our ambitious and highly skilled Business department.You will need to have the knowledge, skills and creativity to be an outstanding teacher, and the ability to teach Economics & Business in order to promote the highest standards of learning, progress and achievement from students of all abilities across key stages 3, 4 and 5.

Main responsibilities and duties

  • Working within the Business department to contribute to raising student achievement and the continued development of the department
  • Teach the Economics & Business curriculum across the ability range to years 10 - 13
  • Teaching A-Level Economics
  • Contribute to enrichment and intervention supports within the Business department


What the school offers its staff

Our campus is based in the heart of the city of Plymouth with stunning view of the Plymouth Sound and easy walking distance of the most accessible city waterfront. We encourage all young people to work hard and make the most of the opportunities they are given. Our amazing team of teachers and support staff themselves demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, both within and beyond our curriculum.

The vision for our campus is that we have high expectations and aspirations for all our students. Working at Stoke Damerel and Scott College you can expect the following:

  • Highly visible and supportive leadership team
  • Disruption free learning in all classrooms
  • Hard working students
  • Centralised planning and resources
  • Centralised homework checked daily
  • Centralised detentions
  • A clear feed forward policy, incorporating live marking and whole class feed forward only
  • Consistent lesson structure based on the Rosenshine principles
  • Weekly, high quality CPD sessions focused on practice in the classroom
  • Clear daily routines (Standard Operating Procedures – our SOPs) that all staff follow regardless of role
  • Teacher desks include Pastore’s Perch & desk, visualiser and use of two computer screens
  • Subject experts working together within a collaborative trust
  • Commitment to personal developmental drop in every 3 weeks
  • No report writing
  • No hours of marking
  • No individual lesson planning
  • No graded lesson observations
  • No excessive data collection

Commitment to safeguarding

Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All teaching and support members of staff must undertake the required pre-employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

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About Stoke Damerel Community College

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1301 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Email address
HR@sdcc-smhc.net
Phone number
01752 556065

Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical and Healthcare College are proud members of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing our own distinctive character.

Our campus is based in the heart of the city of Plymouth with stunning view of the Plymouth Sound and easy walking distance of the most accessible city waterfront. We encourage all young people to work hard and make the most of the opportunities they are given. Our amazing team of teachers and support staff themselves demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, both within and beyond our curriculum.

Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical & Healthcare College are next door to each other. No additional travel is required.
We are proud members of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing our own distinctive character. The Trust is a vibrant and forward-thinking community of teachers, support staff and learners committed to educating the ‘whole child’ to improve life chances, whilst securing the best possible outcomes for students.

As one of the highest performing multi-academy trusts in the country, we currently comprise of thirty schools: seven in South London, five in Berkshire, one in Surrey, fourteen in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, and three in Plymouth. We are continuing to grow and have further schools joining us on a regular basis.

We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion and very much look forward to receiving applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description. We encourage applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, religion, belief, or race.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people therefore this appointment will be subject to vetting, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Arranging a visit to Stoke Damerel Community College

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@sdcc-smhc.net.

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