Teacher of English
Tor Bridge High, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8UN6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
3 May 2024 at 9am
Date listed
28 March 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR 1 to UPR 3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an outstanding, enthusiastic and inspiring English specialist? Can you inspire students with your love of literature? If you feel you share our School’s vision of transforming communities, and transforming lives through education, we would love to hear from you.
Job Purpose:
To carry out the professional duties of a teacher and tutor as circumstances may require, and in accordance with the School’s policies under the direction of the Curriculum Leader.
To be an effective professional who demonstrates thorough curriculum knowledge, teaches and assesses effectively, takes responsibility for own professional development and supports students to make good progress and achieve.
Are you:
- Ambitious in achieving the very best outcomes for young people;
- Eager to join a school where you will be well developed and supported;
- A motivated specialist that would thrive working in a collaborative and aspirational team;
- Innovative, hardworking and an excellent practitioner;
Then we would be delighted to hear from you.
Tor Bridge High is a truly inclusive environment where staff believe our students deserve every opportunity to succeed in a warm and compassionate environment, built on a foundation of equity, predictability and consistency in our classrooms. We are looking for staff to join our team who are passionate about improving students’ life chances and capable of contributing to a highly effective and supportive teaching team and our extensive enrichment programme.
What the school offers its staff
At Tor Bridge High, we recognise our employees as the most important asset and we are aware that the quality and commitment of our employees is critical in our success. We offer all of our employees the following staff benefits:
- A competitive salary
- Excellent CPD opportunities
- Employer contributions to Teachers Pension Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Annual ‘flu’ vaccination
- On site complimentary gym access
- Discounted membership to local leisure facilities
Further details about the role
Relationships & Culture
Building a positive culture underpins any successful school and we, therefore, work hard as a team to create a culture rooted in mutual respect, in which teachers can teach and students can learn. We believe that students should be Ready, Kind and Safe for learning and our Ten Habits of Excellence are explicitly taught through our pastoral curriculum.
At Tor Bridge High, we pride ourselves on setting the highest of standards for our students and we uphold these through positive relationships that are built on trust, kindness and safety. Staff are supported through a consistent and centralised behaviour system underpinned by a dedicated pastoral team.
Curriculum & worklife balance
We believe passionately that every student will succeed through an ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum that meets the needs of all students and through highly skilled adaptive teaching. Our curriculum is driven by academic rigour and powerful knowledge that prepares students for the rigours of future study and work. What is more, we are committed to celebrating diversity and inclusivity through our curriculum.
We have a centralised curriculum, collaborating across departments and other schools to both share resources and to avoid duplication and unnecessary work at all levels. We provide our curriculum teams with the autonomy to decide the very best curriculum to enable our learners to thrive and flourish. The centralised curriculum ensures that all students have an equity of experience and ensures that teachers are not burdened by daily planning; instead they can focus on adaptive teaching and meeting the needs of all learners.
Continuing Professional Development
At both Tor Bridge High and the Ted Wragg Trust, we invest in our staff as part of our Trust’s ‘Grow Great People’ strategy. We are committed to growing you into the best leader possible and believe that staff development is fundamental to building a highly ambitious and aspirational school. Moreover, we are proud to have a staff body who have high expectations for themselves and who model these to our students in order to create the same culture at all levels.
Staff are the most valuable asset within a school, thus, our second-to-none commitment to coaching encompasses both 'instructional coaching' for teaching and 'leadership coaching' to foster the development of our teams and the continuous improvement of our staff. At Tor Bridge High, there is a culture of feedback with an emphasis on self-reflection and impact. All staff receive personalised instructional coaching every two weeks.
We want to create dynamic and innovative teams where staff are learning collaboratively from one another; we encourage staff to seek these opportunities both internally and externally and to deliberately incorporate evidence-informed practice into their teaching to improve our School performance.
Community, Personal Development & Enrichment
or Bridge High is the heart of the community and therefore, we take pride in our responsibility to serving our local families through strengthening family and community engagement, and helping the community to access services and additional resources. We understand the social and economic challenges faced by the community and the impact these can have on our students and their families, and we believe that we have an important role to play in tackling inequality by working in close partnership with families and the wider community.
Education is not simply a collection of grades obtained at the end of examinations; education is about holistic growth and cultural development. We aim to accelerate the personal growth of all students by providing them access to a range of experiences that may not otherwise be available to them. This includes trips to theatres, galleries and concerts; residential trips that develop character; sporting opportunities; charity expeditions abroad and so much more. Further growing the breadth of extra-curricular activities is important to fulfilling our vision to ensure that every single child has access to culturally rich experiences.
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 Tor Bridge High
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1170 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Tor Bridge High website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- tbh-hr@torbridge.net
- Phone number
- 01752 207907
Our school is a well-established secondary school and sixth form, which caters for up to 1,200 pupils and has been oversubscribed for the past 7 years.
We are on a journey of school improvement with a relentless focus on high expectations with an aim to improve outcomes for all our students. This was reflected in our 2019 Year 11 results where we saw an overall increase in students’ progress - a reflection of the dedication of our staff for continued school improvement.
Arranging a visit to Tor Bridge High
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email tbh-hr@torbridge.net.
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