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Teacher of Humanities

Budehaven Community School, Bude, Cornwall, EX23 8DQ

This job expired on 24 April 2024

• Job start date

  1 September 2024

• Closing date

  24 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  17 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: Humanities
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a subject specialist who can grow a passion for learning across the Humanities subjects.

• You will be ambitious for yourself, for the department and our students, ensuring all students achieve their full potential.
• You will set exceptionally high standards of behaviour and academic expectations in the classroom.
• You will plan and deliver innovative and challenging lessons that will inspire our students to become articulate, curious, imaginative, capable and productive members of our society.

• You will:

• Be an innovative and inspiring practitioner, always going above and beyond to help students achieve
  
• Be ambitious for yourself, your students and colleagues
  
• Be passionate about your subject/s
  
• Have excellent subject and specialist knowledge
  
• Have a proven ability to develop positive relationships
  
• Achieve excellent outcomes for all student groups, and ensure Disadvantaged pupils achieve as well as non-Disadvantaged pupils in your classes.
  
• Have a positive outlook willing to seek out solutions
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• Qualification Criteria
  
• Qualified to degree level and above in a subject relevant to the role
• QTS

Experience

• Experience of teaching your subject to a range of abilities & ages (this may be from your training if an ECT)
• Experience of developing resources to support the curriculum and effective learning in the classroom
• Experience of reflecting on and improving teaching practice to impact teaching and student achievement

Knowledge

• Deep understanding of the importance of curriculum - intent, implementation and impact of your subject/s curriculum, sequencing of the curriculum and how it fits together.
• Understanding of the OFSTED Framework and what constitutes effective teaching and learning, curriculum implementation and impact.
• Excellent knowledge of the National Curriculum
• Knowledge of the latest educational research, findings and best practices
• Understanding of the strategies needed to establish consistently high aspirations and standards of results and behaviour

Teaching and Learning

• Excellent classroom practitioner – ensures that their own classroom practice models best practice
• Effective and systematic behaviour management, with clear boundaries, sanctions, praise and reward
• Good communication, planning and organisational skills
• Demonstrates resilience, motivation and commitment to driving up standards of achievement
• Genuine passion and a belief in the potential of every pupil
• Acts as a role model to staff and pupils
• Commitment to regular and on-going professional development and training to establish outstanding classroom practice.
• Vision aligned with our culture and ethos of high aspirations, expectations of self and others, based on care, with the aim of achieving success for all
• Motivation to continually improve standards and achieve excellence
• Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils

What the school offers its staff

• You will be well-supported, trusted to innovate, and expected to contribute fully to the department and wider school.
• We have an excellent programme for new teaching staff and have a bespoke Early Career Framework programme for all new teachers.

• WE VALUE YOU AND CAN OFFER...

  ■ Students who are welcoming, well behaved and curious young people

  ■ The support of an experienced governing body and a dedicated team of staff and leaders

  ■ A school that is at the heart of its community and is well respected

  ■ CPD tailored to support you as you develop within your role

  ■ A school that has innovative education and health care links

  ■ A successful sixth form with students who go onto top universities

  ■ Free use of the on-site Gym which was refurbished Autumn 2021

  ■ Number of after school staff activities such as 5 aside football and a Staff Wellbeing Club

  ■ Free membership of the Smart Clinic, benefits include:

  ○ 24 hour helpline

  ○ Access to a virtual GP 24/7

  ○ Support and advice on

  ○ Managing a condition

  ○ Better health

  ○ Cognitive behavioural therapy

  ○ Counselling

  ○ Anxiety Management

  ○ Physiotherapy

  ○ Stress Management

  ○ Assertiveness and self-confidence training

  ○ Time management

  ■ Free onsite parking

  ■ Lifestyle Savings – Access a huge range of savings across the UK’s major retailers

  ■ Home and Electronics – Spread the cost of thousands of technology and home appliances shipped by Currys and John Lewis & Partners

  ■ Cycle to Work – Save up to 43%* on the latest bikes and accessories for your commute to work (savings are realised through a salary sacrifice arrangement. Excluding disposal fee. Figures are a guide only and dependent on personal situation).

  ■ On site Gym Membership

  ■ Eye Test Vouchers for eligible staff

  ■ Physiotherapy – Access to online advice and exercise programmes

  ■ Counselling & Wellbeing Support - Access to a Wellbeing Resource Library

  ■ GP Phone & Video Consultation – Accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

  
  

Commitment to safeguarding

At Budehaven we are committed to safeguarding; the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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About Budehaven Community School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1161 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Budehaven Community School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: clare.brown@budehaven.cornwall.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01288 353271
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/budehaven-community-school (opens in new tab)

Budehaven Community School is located on the beautiful north Cornwall coast in the town of Bude. We are proud to be a fully comprehensive school, welcoming and providing an inclusive education to students from ages 11 to 19. Our school also benefits from a thriving, successful Sixth Form, an on-site Area Resource Base and The Haven – our integrated Health and Wellbeing Centre, providing wider support for our students and members of the community.
Budehaven Community School is a thriving environment to be part of, and our ethos, which is built on a foundation of Care, Enjoyment and Opportunities, building Responsibility, Confidence and Success, is tangible from the second you walk through the door. As you travel around our school, the energy of the students and staff is infectious. The stunning work of our talented young people is on display around the school, and their artwork is one of our jewels in the Budehaven crown within our stylish Bistro Art Gallery, aside that of local artists for all to appreciate. We have an annual art exhibition, where members of the community come and admire the work of our young people.

Arranging a visit to Budehaven Community School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email clare.brown@budehaven.cornwall.sch.uk.

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