2 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 January 2025

  • Closing date

    14 October 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    25 September 2024

Job details

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Subject

Health & Social Care

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

MPS/UPS

Teacher of Health and Social Care job summary

Vacancy for Health and Social Care Teacher

Salary: MPS/UPS

Hours of work: 60%

We have an exciting opportunity for a committed and passionate Health and Social Care Teacher to join our team! We are looking for a committed and hard-working Health and Social Care Teacher who can inspire the next generation of healthcare professionals. The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom teacher with excellent subject knowledge. You will provide consistently high-quality teaching and enable the effective use of resources to facilitate high standards of learning and achievement for all students.

The opportunity:

  • A fulfilling and rewarding role where you will be making a difference to children’s learning
  • An opportunity to work in a high-attaining school
  • Outstanding professional development opportunities for all our staff
  • Highly collaborative approach to teaching where planning is jointly shared across year groups to enable the sharing of excellent practice

The ideal candidate:

  • QTS teaching qualification
  • Possesses outstanding communication skills and can work well in a team
  • An understanding of child protection and safeguarding issues

About Swavesey Village College

Swavesey Village College was judged to be Outstanding in all categories by Ofsted in May 2024. Ofsted report that ‘Swavesey Village College is a welcoming, inclusive school with high ambitions for all’, and that ‘Leaders have created a vibrant, successful school where all are welcome and all can succeed’. Moreover, they feel ‘The curriculum for personal development is exemplary’. The achievements of our students are remarkable, both academically in examination success, and across an incredibly wide range of sports, arts and other co-curricular areas.

Swavesey is a village community school located close to Cambridge with excellent transport links to Cambridge and the pretty market town of St Ives, however, we have a considerable local and national reputation for academic excellence and innovation as part of our Academy Trust – Meridian Trust.

About Meridian Trust

Meridian Trust is a values-led organisation that has risen to be one of the highest-performing academy trusts in the country. The Trust was formed in 2011 and is founded on its commitment to a high-quality educational provision for all at the heart of local communities. Meridian currently operates primary, secondary and special schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire and has forged strong links within all these communities. To find out more about the Trust, please visit: www.meridiantrust.co.uk

Why work for us?

We are committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all our staff. As a large multi-academy trust, Meridian Trust provides a wide network of opportunities for collaboration and career development for both teaching and support staff. We offer all our staff a wide range of professional learning activities delivered through Meridian Learning including:

  • School and Trust-led CPD and Trust-led professional networks
  • A broad range of online, face-to-face and blended learning opportunities developed and delivered by Trust specialists
  • Access to Teaching WalkThrus; a platform providing evidence-based teaching strategies broken down into granular steps
  • Curriculum Hubs and NPQs via Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Teaching School Hub
  • Opportunities for coaching & professional supervision
  • Opportunities to get into teaching through our outstanding ITT
  • Professional qualifications via Apprenticeships

We promote and support employee wellbeing through regular wellbeing events, access to an online mindfulness programme and we provide free emotional and practical support 24/7 via our Employee Assistance Programme which delivers online health & wellbeing resources, counselling, mindfulness, skills coaching for line managers and financial, legal & practical support on a range of personal issues.

Other benefits of working for us include:

  • Defined benefit pension schemes, providing a secure and guaranteed income on retirement.
  • Tax-efficient cycle to work scheme
  • Childcare Account providing eligible employees with free or tax-free childcare
  • Free eye tests via Eyecare vouchers and free flu vaccinations
  • Free tea and coffee
  • Free on-site parking
  • Discounts and special deals on holidays, breakdown cover, everyday essentials, mobile phones, utilities and gym memberships
  • Dell Advantage giving up to 20% discount on laptops, desktops and accessories.

For more information about the role please download the Applicant Information Pack below.

Closing date for applications: 7th October 9am

Meridian Trust reserves the right to close the applications early in the event that a suitable candidate is sourced. Applications will be reviewed as received so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

This post is exempt from the rehabilitation of offenders act as the work brings employees into contact with children who are regarded by the Act as a vulnerable group. Applicants for school based jobs must, therefore, disclose all spent and unspent convictions when prompted to do so.

The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.

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 Swavesey Village College

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
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School size
1253 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16

School location

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