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Teacher of Geography

Upper Batley High School, Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 0BJ

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• Job start date

  1 September 2022

• Closing date

  23 May 2022 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 May 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Geography, Religious education
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,714 - £41,604

Teacher of Geography job summary

We are seeking to appoint an innovative Teacher of Geography to join our successful and hardworking Humanities team. The successful applicant will be learner centred and a collaborative practitioner. The post offers excellent opportunities for a committed teacher with good knowledge of the GCSE syllabus to teach Geography to KS3 and KS4. Experience or ability to teach RE would be beneficial.

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 Upper Batley High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 770 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Upper Batley High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@batleymat.co.uk
• Phone number: 01924 350081
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/upper-batley-high-school-batley (opens in new tab)

Batley Multi Academy Trust’s sole purpose is to provide a great education for Primary and Secondary learners throughout a local family of schools. The Trust is passionately committed to the communities of Batley, Birstall, Dewsbury and our surrounding areas, serving our local learners and their families in order to secure excellent educational outcomes, partnered with high aspirations. Batley Multi Academy Trust currently comprises Batley Girls’ High School, Upper Batley High School, Batley Grammar School, Healey Junior, Infant and Nursery School and Field Lane Junior, Infant and Nursery School. We provide high quality education for all young people. This collaboration enables us to share expertise, knowledge and best practice to ensure academic and pastoral excellence throughout all of our schools, with all schools embracing the same overall ethos and values, whilst maintaining their own unique characters.

Upper Batley High School is a dynamic, innovative and forward thinking learning community. We are driven by our values of “Believe - Achieve - Succeed” and respect lies at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for a proactive individual to join our team on our journey to outstanding. Our GCSE results increased again in 2021, demonstrating great progress with a record number of learners achieving the highest possible grade 9. Ofsted visited us in 2019 and said our school “provides all pupils with a high quality education”.

Upper Batley High School was identified as a Beacon School in the Northern Challenge report due to the excellent progress our disadvantaged learners make. We also hold the Gold Award for Mental Health & Wellbeing, the PSHCE Charter Mark, the Careers Quality Standard and we are a lead school within the Kirklees Careers Hub. We are one of only a few schools in the UK to achieve 100% in all Gatsby benchmarks. Ofsted identified our careers programme as a “real strength of the school” and we are in the top 14% of all schools nationally.

Our 11-16 school is multi-cultural and located close to the town centre, within easy access of the motorway network. Our work is focused on developing the unique potential of every individual whilst working towards becoming an outstanding educational organisation. We are a vibrant, rich and exciting learning community with unique and inspiring opportunities inside and outside the classroom.

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