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Teacher of Health/Social Care and Sociology

The Brunts Academy, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 2AT

This job expired on 10 August 2019 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  2 September 2019

• Closing date

  10 August 2019 at 1am

• Date listed

  11 June 2019

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Health and social care, Sociology
• Working pattern: Full time
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,720 to £39,406
• Additional allowances:

  As an Evolve Trust member of staff you will have the opportunity to: ; • Benefit from accredited professional learning through Trust academies as well as opportunities to work with colleagues from primary and special education backgrounds. ; • Access CPD through our membership of 2 Teaching Alliances, benefitting from accredited leadership development programmes as well as extensive training suitable for all career stages. ; • Work in an environment where staff can trial new research informed educational innovations and share best practice.

Teacher of Health/Social Care and Sociology job summary

The Brunts Academy are seeking to appoint a teacher of Health and Social Care and Sociology. An enthusiastic and innovative teacher is required to join our friendly and energetic team to teach Health and Social Care and Sociology to students in Key Stage 4 and 5.

Purpose:
To implement an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area(s) as appropriate.
• To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
• To ensure students in your teaching groups make expected or better progress.
• To share and support the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
• To take responsibility for a tutor group to support academic and personal development.
• To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher and/or Form Tutor

Duties:

Planning
• To assist in the development of appropriate syllabuses, resources, schemes of work, marking policies and teaching strategies in the Curriculum Area.
• To contribute to the Curriculum Area’s development plan and its implementation in order to secure outcomes.
• To plan and prepare courses and lessons to meet the needs of individuals.
• To contribute to the whole school’s planning activities.

Teaching
• To teach students according to their educational needs, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the student in school and elsewhere.
• To assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of students and to keep such records as are required.
• To provide, or contribute to, oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students and groups of students.
• To ensure that ICT, Literacy, Numeracy and other cross-curricular imperatives are reflected in the learning experience of students as appropriate
• To ensure a high quality learning experience for students which meets internal and external quality standards.
• To prepare and update subject materials.
• To use a variety of delivery methods which will stimulate learning appropriate to student need and the demands of the syllabus.
• To maintain discipline in accordance with the school’s procedures, and to encourage good practice with regard to punctuality, behaviour, standards of work and homework.
• To undertake assessment of students as requested by external examination bodies, departmental and school procedures.
• To mark, grade and give written/verbal and diagnostic feedback as required.

Curriculum
• To assist the Subject of Leader in ensuring that the curriculum area provides a range of teaching which complements the school’s strategic objectives.
• To assist in the process of curriculum development and change so as to ensure the continued relevance to the needs of students, examining and awarding bodies and the school’s aims and objectives.

Staff Development
• To take part in the school’s staff development programme by participating in arrangements for further training and professional development.
• To continue personal development in the relevant areas including subject knowledge and teaching methods.
• To engage actively in the Performance Management Review process.
• To ensure the effective and efficient deployment of classroom support
• To work as a member of a designated team and to contribute positively to effective working relations within the school.

Quality Assurance
• To implement school quality procedures.
• To contribute to the process of monitoring and evaluation of the curriculum area in line with agreed school procedures, including evaluation against quality standards and performance criteria. To seek and implement modification and improvement where required.
• To review from time to time methods of teaching and programmes of work.
• To take part, as may be required, in the review, development and management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and support and guidance functions of the school.

Monitoring
• To maintain appropriate records and to provide relevant accurate and up-to-date information for attendance and monitoring systems
• To complete the relevant documentation to assist in the tracking of students.
• To track student progress and use information to inform the next steps in teaching and learning to accelerate the rates of progress and tackle under achievement.

Communications
• To communicate effectively with the parents of students as appropriate.
• Where appropriate, to communicate and co-operate with persons or bodies outside the school.
• To follow agreed policies for communications in the school
Liaison
• To take part in activities such as Open Evenings, Parents Evenings, Review days and liaison events with partner schools.
• To contribute to the development of effective subject links with external agencies.

Resources
• To contribute to the process of the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials.
• To assist the Learning Manager to identify resource needs and to contribute to the efficient/effective use of physical resources.
• To co-operate with other staff to ensure a sharing and effective usage of resources to the benefit of the School, department and the students.

Support and Guidance
• To be a Form Tutor to an assigned group of students.
• To promote the general progress and well-being of individual students and of the Tutor Group as a whole.
• To liaise with appropriate staff to ensure the implementation of the school’s support and guidance system.
• To register students, accompany them to assemblies, encourage their full attendance at all lessons and their participation in other aspects of school life.
• To evaluate and monitor the progress of students and keep up-to-date student records as may be required.
• To communicate as appropriate, with the parents of students and with persons or bodies outside the school concerned with the welfare of individual students, after consultation with the appropriate staff
• To contribute to PSHE, citizenship and enterprise schemes according to school policy

Other Specific Duties:
• To play a full part in the life of the school community, to support its aims and objectives and to encourage staff and students to follow this example.
• To support the school in meeting its legal requirements for worship.
• To promote actively the school’s corporate policies and ensure compliance.

General:
• Be aware of the Data Protection Act and other legislation to ensure confidentially of records and information.

Safeguarding:
• This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
• The post holder must be committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to providing equality of opportunity.
• Record and report concerns following the Trust Safeguarding policy.
• Complete safeguarding level 1 training at least once every three years.

Health and Safety:
• Be aware of the responsibility for personal health, safety and welfare and that of others who may be affected by your actions or inactions.
• Co-operate with the employer on all issues to do with Health, Safety and Welfare.
• Ensure all aspects of Health and Safety are rigorously addressed across your department inclusive but not limited to:
o Reporting damaged, broken or missing equipment/property to an appropriate person i.e. departmental link, site team, headteacher etc.

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 The Brunts Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1473 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Brunts Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: jobs@evolvetrust.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-brunts-academy (opens in new tab)

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