Teacher of Geography - St James Academy - Dudley Academies Trust
St James Academy, Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 3JEThis job expired on 16 April 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2023
Closing date
16 April 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
21 March 2023
Job details
Visa sponsorship
- No, visa sponsorship not available
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- View all Geographyjobs
Working pattern
- View all Full timejobs - 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Main / Upper Pay Spine
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Relevant Degree in your subject area or a related subject or completion of a subject conversion course.
- Excellent subject knowledge.
- Up to date knowledge of current best practice and curriculum developments.
- Successful teaching of the full ability range
- High Level of Progress and Attainment from Learners taught
- Ability to teach your subject area throughout the school, up to and including GCSE.
- Able to demonstrate excellent classroom management
- Able to contribute to and collaborate with a forward-thinking team.
- Must be suitable to work with young people and vulnerable adults
What the school offers its staff
St James Academy has a strong caring ethos ensuring high levels of support for learners creating an atmosphere of mutual respect throughout the academy. Its philosophy is to embrace the talents of all its learners to ensure the success for all through outstanding teaching and positive behaviour.
As a Trust we are highly centralised, which means that all of our systems and processes are aligned. Everything we do is developed collaboratively involving many professionals and experts who work together across the Trust, all striving to provide the highest quality provision for our learners.
Teaching and Learning is supported by a central team of Subject Directors who are experienced teachers with leadership and mentoring skills who work across our academies supporting teachers in their personal development, data analysis and curriculum planning. Subject Directors have specific areas of focus such as Mathematics, Science, Reading, Writing and History.
The Values Driven Expectations behaviour model ensures that all learners are well focussed and that there is no low-level disruption in lessons; this allows colleagues to concentrate on leading high-quality teaching to inspire learners. Cutting edge data management processes also mean that key data is provided from the central team, freeing up your time to act on key information to accelerate learners’ progress.
The Trust recognises that our staff are our most valuable asset and investing in our people is a key strategic priority for the Trust. A common and extensive programme of staff development operates across the Trust
Commitment to safeguarding
About St James Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 816 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- St James Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- DAT.HR@dudleycol.ac.uk
This is an exciting time to join St James Academy and Dudley Academies Trust. For the third consecutive year, the school is oversubscribed and this year, the school achieved its best ever examination results. Not only did outcomes exceed those in 2019 but St James also did better than 2022, bucking the national trend. It is clear that St James is an academy that is rapidly improving and its dynamic, aspirant culture will ensure that the school goes from strength to strength.
Arranging a visit to St James Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email DAT.HR@dudleycol.ac.uk.
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