Teacher of Maths
Stoke Damerel Community College, Plymouth, Devon, PL3 4BDThis job expired on 14 October 2024
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
14 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 September 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS - UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a well-qualified, energetic and enthusiastic Teacher of Maths to join our ambitious and highly skilled Maths department. You will need to have the knowledge, skills and creativity to be an outstanding teacher, and the ability to teach your specialism to GCSE and A level. If you have a focus on raising student attainment and a passion for Maths and are looking to work in an environment that values the learning of students, we would welcome an application from you.
Main responsibilities and duties:
Working within the Maths department to contribute to raising student achievement and the continued development of the department
Teach the Maths curriculum across the ability range to years 7-13
Teaching the Maths GCSE course at key stage 4
Contribute to enrichment and intervention supports within the Maths department
Applications from ECTs and experienced staff will be equally valued.
What the school offers its staff
Our campus is based in the heart of the city of Plymouth with stunning view of the Plymouth Sound and easy walking distance of the most accessible city waterfront. We encourage all young people to work hard and make the most of the opportunities they are given. Our amazing team of teachers and support staff themselves demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, both within and beyond our curriculum.
The vision for our campus is that we have high expectations and aspirations for all our students. Working at Stoke Damerel and Scott College you can expect the following:
- Highly visible and supportive leadership team
- Disruption free learning in all classrooms
- Hard working students
- Centralised planning and resources
- Centralised homework checked daily
- Centralised detentions
- A clear feed forward policy, incorporating live marking and whole class feed forward only
- Consistent lesson structure based on the Rosenshine principles
- Weekly, high quality CPD sessions focused on practice in the classroom
- Clear daily routines (Standard Operating Procedures – our SOPs) that all staff follow regardless of role
- Teacher desks include Pastore’s Perch & desk, visualiser and use of two computer screens
- Subject experts working together within a collaborative trust
- Commitment to personal developmental drop in every 3 weeks
- No report writing
- No hours of marking
- No individual lesson planning
- No graded lesson observations
- No excessive data collection
Commitment to safeguarding
Greenshaw Learning 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 teaching and support members of staff must undertake the required pre-employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
About Stoke Damerel Community College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1301 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- HR@sdcc-smhc.net
- Phone number
- 01752 556065
Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical and Healthcare College are proud members of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing our own distinctive character.
Our campus is based in the heart of the city of Plymouth with stunning view of the Plymouth Sound and easy walking distance of the most accessible city waterfront. We encourage all young people to work hard and make the most of the opportunities they are given. Our amazing team of teachers and support staff themselves demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, both within and beyond our curriculum.
Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical & Healthcare College are next door to each other. No additional travel is required.
We are proud members of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing our own distinctive character. The Trust is a vibrant and forward-thinking community of teachers, support staff and learners committed to educating the ‘whole child’ to improve life chances, whilst securing the best possible outcomes for students.
As one of the highest performing multi-academy trusts in the country, we currently comprise of thirty schools: seven in South London, five in Berkshire, one in Surrey, fourteen in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, and three in Plymouth. We are continuing to grow and have further schools joining us on a regular basis.
We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion and very much look forward to receiving applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description. We encourage applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, religion, belief, or race.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people therefore this appointment will be subject to vetting, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Arranging a visit to Stoke Damerel Community College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@sdcc-smhc.net.
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