Teacher of Maths
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 7EGThis job expired on 26 April 2023
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
26 April 2023 at 9am
Date listed
30 March 2023
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: Full Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential
- Experience as a classroom teacher in a secondary setting.
- An excellent classroom practitioner.
- Ability to teach Maths to KS5.
- Understands how and believes they can improve student outcomes.
- Excellent understanding of assessment processes and how to use these to support planning and raise student achievement.
- Experience of working with other teachers and supporting professionals to extend their understanding of educational issues.
- Ability to lead own professional development.
- Confident user of new technology as a management tool.
Desirable
- Ability to Teach Further Maths at KS5.
- Ability to lead an extra-curricular activity.
- Experience of teaching using a mastery approach.
What the school offers its staff
In the competitive world of educational recruitment, it is important for teaching staff and support staff alike to consider whether there is a natural fit between their personal values and those of the organisation they are anticipating joining, whatever stage of their career they join us.
A significant reward of working at QEGS is that you will have the opportunity to work with some of the most talented, engaged and motivated students and staff in the country. Our common values of respect, integrity, determination, equality of opportunity and self-management instil in our students a strong work ethic, and our supportive culture provides what many people describe as a ‘family feel’ within our school.
As well as offering you a competitive salary and access to a generous pension scheme, there are also many additional benefits of working at QEGS some of which are summarised below:
- A supportive and collegiate staffing team
- A strategic programme of personalised CPD is offered, to help you plan your future career
- Access to a range of career enhancing qualifications including National Professional Qualifications (NPQML, NPQSL, NPQH and NPQEL), as well as industry specific qualifications e.g. AAT; BIFM and Masters degrees
- Staff social events
- Staff enrichment opportunities e.g. sporting activities
- Opportunities to participate in a varied programme of school trips, including visits to Zambia, Germany, winter sports etc.
- A policy of promoting from within (where possible).
Commitment to safeguarding
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School is committed to the safeguarding of all students and as part of the recruitment process we conduct enhanced checks into applicant’s background.
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About Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1038 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- secretary@qegs.cumbria.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01768 864621
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith
A mixed selective academy
Roll: 1042 including 236 in the Sixth Form
Ofsted: Good in every category
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