Teacher of Humanties (maternitycover)
Bosworth Academy, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE9 9JLThis job expired on 17 June 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
August 2024
Closing date
17 June 2024 at 9am
Date listed
24 May 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Humanities
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Fixed term - upto 1 year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- ECT/MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential
Qualifications
Degree and qualified teacher status (QTS).
Evidence of recent professional learning in relation to this role.
Experience
Have training or teaching experience at least one comprehensive school or academy.
Knowledge, Skills & Curriculum
Ability to teach Humanities up to KS4 including GCSE.
Ability to teach other subjects like Geography, History and Humanities up to key stages 4.
Understanding of current curriculum issues with particular reference to the teaching of Religious Studies.
Detailed knowledge of the structure and content of the current Religious Education curriculum.
Have a clear understanding of the purpose of RE and how this should be reflected in the classroom.
A wide repertoire of teaching styles that facilitate the learning of students through high levels of engagement and motivation
Good understanding of implementing effective strategies for managing pupil behaviour in an inclusive environment.
Excellent interpersonal skills including listening, negotiation, persuasion and direction.
Excellent team working skills.
Creative and innovative; willing to contribute to the development of teaching and learning within a forward looking department.
Ability to implement change and keep up with curriculum developments.
Enthusiasm for the subject.
Understanding the importance of the inter-relationship between all areas of the curriculum in a secondary school.
Knowledge of ICT applications.
Willingness to deliver the school’s PSHE programme.
Willingness to deliver Integrated Humanities as a tutor in Year 7.
Management
Understanding of good classroom management techniques.
Ability to be part of a Faculty team and a year team.
Parents and the Community
Understanding the importance of the partnership between parents and Bosworth Academy.
Personal Attributes and Qualities
Ability to inspire trust and empower others.
Confidence, energy and enthusiasm.
Ability to develop good relationships.
Good communication skills.
High level of commitment to the Academy and wider Trust.
Ability to work in a team, follow instructions and be self-organising.
Desirable
Qualifications
Evidence of a range of supportive professional development.
Evidence of post-qualification development.
Experience
Experience of working with young people in the 11 to 19 age range.
Knowledge, Skills & Curriculum
Evidence of clear ideas about the delivery of the Religious Studies and Humanities curriculum to all abilities including Geography, History and other subjects.
Knowledge of the GCSE syllabus and appropriate ‘A’ level syllabus.
Experience of teaching History, Geography, Psychology or Sociology at key stage 5.
Ability to contribute to extra-curricular activities to broaden our students’ learning experience.
Ability to contribute to the teaching of other subjects in the faculty.
Management
Evidence of effective classroom management strategies.
Evidence of being an effective member of a team.
Parents and the Community
Evidence of involvement with Community groups and/or Parents.
Personal Attributes and Qualities
Evidence of good working relationships with a range of people.
Evidence of a willingness to work hard.
Be able to demonstrate that she/he can work as part of a team and be able to meet deadlines and achieve targets.
What the school offers its staff
Putting your trust in our Trust
We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young people. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.
Coaching
Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching; enabling deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a bold, creative and aspirational culture, where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.
Personal Improvement Plan
versus Performance Management
Instead of the usual Performance Management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement not pass or fail numerical targets.
Health and Wellbeing Strategies
Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The Trust is committed to:
- providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work
- recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important
- providing a supportive workplace culture where individuals healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged
We are committed to supporting colleagues to overcome the stigma and discrimination of mental health issues within the work place. To show our commitment to this we have publicly signed up to ‘Mindful Employer’ and the ‘Charter for Employers who are Positive about Mental Health’.
We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance, offering support to staff on managing stress and workload, as well as a physical activity programme.Access to coaching, counselling and supervision is also available to all staff.
Equality and Equal Opportunities
Our Trust and its schools are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in line with the Equality Act 2010. The Trust seeks to reduce disadvantages, discrimination and inequalities of opportunity, and promote diversity in terms of its students, workforce and our wider communities we serve.
Presumed Professionalism
We have a ‘Presumed Professionalism’ ethos across the Trust. Our staff are professional educators and we recognise the need to support staff to enable a healthy work life balance to allow maximum impact whilst working with our young people and each other. We achieve this by allowing staff to sign out during their free periods, as long as professional duties are not affected. See our policy for further details.
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 Bosworth Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1613 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Bosworth Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- pa@bosworthacademy.org.uk
Bosworth Academy is a popular and expanding 11-19 school, within the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust, which is increasingly the school of choice for parents in the area. We have high expectations of all our staff, which makes our faculty an exciting and progressive environment in which to work. The team is forward thinking and extremely supportive of each other, working collaboratively to secure high standards of teaching and learning. We are passionate in our goal of ensuring that our students get every opportunity to be the best they can possibly be.
Bosworth Academy is the lead school in the LiFE Multi Academy Trust, which has been recognised by Ofsted as an ‘Outstanding’ school in our recent inspection. We continue to develop our practice as we believe our community deserves nothing less and were awarded ‘World Class Status’.
Arranging a visit to Bosworth Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email pa@bosworthacademy.org.uk.
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