Teacher of English

Moseley School and Sixth Form, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 9UU

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2025

• Closing date

  7 October 2024 at 8am

• Date listed

  27 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS / UPR for QTS and ECT’s, Unqualified Teachers Pay Range; L1- £20,598 to L6 - £32,134 – (Salary level decided upon depending on experience)

Teacher of English job summary

Our successful, established English faculty is looking for a new team member with the passion and enthusiasm to make a positive impact on the young people at our school. At the heart of our curriculum is the exploration of the human condition, exploring themes of identity, relationships, and conflict across the key stages. We choose our texts carefully to reflect the breadth of literature and experiences with which we want our students to engage. We are reflective, supportive, and collaborative in our approach, using research to underpin our teaching and learning practices, and being mindful of staff workload in decisions particularly around shared planning and marking expectations. We have established links with local universities, and there are opportunities every year for staff to mentor ITT students who can learn from our knowledgeable and supportive team.

This role would be ideal for a Qualified Teacher or an Unqualified Teacher that has the passion and enthusiasm to make a positive impact on the young people at our school.

At Moseley, you can look forward to being part of a dynamic team who are responsive to the needs of the students, with Entry Level being delivered from Year 9, to ensure that targeted students get the support in accessing GCSE. At A-level, we have a varied and engaging choice of texts and these are adapted to the needs and interests of each cohort.

A focus on literacy is central to our school curriculum, with tutor time reading well-established in the school. As an English teacher, you will be part of the team supporting this drive, closely collaborating with our librarian, to ensure all students make the most of our wonderful school library, as well as running competitions and other activities for students in all year groups.

Our perfect teaching candidate will:

• Be a consistently good to outstanding practitioner.
• Be committed to exceptional standards of teaching and learning.
• Be able to motivate, challenge and inspire students to achieve their best.
• Be able to establish and develop outstanding relationships with students and staff.
• Help us to build on already good English results.
• Contribute to our core vision and values.

Core Purpose:

To ensure that students make positive progress against prior attainment, by ensuring that teaching is consistently of a high quality, progress is monitored, and appropriate measures are taken to address any areas of underachievement.

Responsibilities for all teachers:

• Meet the relevant Teachers’ Standards
• Promote the values and aims of the school.
• Follow all relevant school policies.
• To be aware of, and assume the appropriate level of responsibility for, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and to report any concerns in accordance with the school’s safeguarding policies.
• Create and maintain effective partnerships with parents and carers.
• Treat students, parents, and colleagues fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect
• To comply with the school’s Health & Safety policy and statutory requirements
• Plan lessons and sequences of lessons, ensuring lessons have pace and variety, that learning is personalised to meet individual learning needs and that teaching caters for the full range of learning styles of students.
• Ensure that teaching reflects the diversity of backgrounds of students and promotes mutual respect.
• Contribute to regular curriculum review to help maintain a relevant, stimulating, and innovative curriculum provision.
• Take responsibility for personal continuing professional development to ensure that knowledge and skills are kept up to date with respect to subject(s), pedagogy and curriculum developments plus wider school, local and national issues.
• Assess progress of students in line with policy and records to ensure regular feedback and encouragement is given to students to take responsibility for their own learning.
• Instigate measures to address the causes of identified underperformance and monitor the effectiveness of those measures.
• Submit assessments to the school database, and complete students’ reports for parents’ consultation deadlines in school calendar, ensuring they provide an accurate record of the progress of each individual and meeting high quality standards.
• Complete registers to monitor attendance and punctuality and take action to address any issues.
• Utilise appropriate behaviour management strategies in lessons in line with school policy.
• Participate in lesson observation and other measures to monitor delivery of learning outcomes and quality of teaching and implement measures to address any improvement issues identified.
• Participate in the appraisal process, identifying personal professional development priorities which will impact on students’ learning.

We welcome candidates to visit the department and school, please contact our recruitment team recruitment@moseley.bham.sch.uk to arrange a visit if required.

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.

Applying for the job

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About Moseley School and Sixth Form

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1454 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Moseley School and Sixth Form website (opens in new tab)
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The staff at Moseley School and Sixth Form are a passionate team of professionals. Our purpose is to inspire excellence in character and scholarship. The students and their families have bought into this vision. Together we form a friendly and dedicated community.

Moseley School and Sixth Form is a large comprehensive secondary school with a thriving sixth form. Moseley School first opened its doors in 1923. We value our long history whilst being excited about our future. There are 1300 students, 150 teaching and support staff, excellent facilities housed in a grade two listed building, a modern building which opened in 2012 and a recently completed sports complex and extensive grounds. Staff enjoy subsidised healthcare options and access to our on-site gym.

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