Teacher of English (Maternity cover)
Parkside Community College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 1EH17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
21 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
4 October 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Part time: 22.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Fixed term - Jan 2025 - Summer 2025 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,850 - £48,050
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are now recruiting for a talented Teacher of English to join our department. This post is for fixed term maternity cover from January until summer 2025.
We are looking for applications from new or experienced practitioners with excellent subject knowledge and who are able to promote their subject throughout the College with passion and commitment.
Candidates will be well supported by a strong department team and the work of the United Learning subject advisory team. Teaching will be underpinned by a robust, academic curriculum, assessment and a whole school approach to Teaching and Learning.
You will have the opportunity to teach students in Years 7 to 11 and will join a highly committed and successful team who support one another to succeed and have a shared interest in professional learning and development of the subject.
What the school offers its staff
Parkside Community College is a small caring school situated in the very heart of Cambridge, with incredibly high expectations in all aspects of school life.
We are proud of our achievements in helping our students to thrive forexcellence. Our GCSE performance in 2023 places us in the top 30 schools in England for progress. We are always looking to improve what we do. Ourcommunityhelps us to remain a leading school in Cambridge and beyond. We expect all of our staff members, students, and parents to 'play their part' in making Parkside a great place to learn and to grow. We also place a great emphasis on our value ofresponsibility, on good citizenship and ethical decision-making in all years.
We are very proud to have again been judged 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in April 2023. The inspectors recognised that: ‘teachers are happy’; we provide regular training to equip teachers with strong subject knowledge; we collaborate with them to ensure their workload is manageable; and we have established a highly inclusive ethos where all are welcomed.
United Learning Cambridge Cluster
We are part of a cluster of schools within the United Learning group: The Galfrid School, Coleridge Community College, Trumpington Community College, Parkside Community College, and Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology.
We embrace United Learning aim to offer a life changing education to children and young people, and we work as a team to achieve more than any single school could.
We share knowledge and resource within the cluster and the group to simplify work processes and manage workloads to achieve excellent results while improving work-life balance. As a cluster and as a group, we can look after our staff better.
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
About Parkside Community College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 735 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Parkside Community College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- laura.onyemembenedict@parksidecc.org.uk
Parkside Community College is part of the Cambridge cluster within United Learning and is committed to bringing out 'The Best in Everyone' through an education that develops rich knowledge and character.
Parkside Community College is a highly oversubscribed school with a long history of success and an excellent reputation for innovation in education. We are situated in three sets of buildings, with the main site, overlooking Parker's Piece, opening in 1913. We offer 120 places in each year group and believe deeply in the power of 'human scale' education, where every student is very well known and strong relationships help teachers to support their classes to exceptional outcomes.
Our intake is diverse: we have a large proportion of higher attainers on entry; we also have significant profile of Special Educational Needs. We have many students join us from overseas, with a range of ability in English, both in the main school and in the 6th Form.
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