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  • Job start date

    1 September 2021

  • Closing date

    18 June 2021 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    10 June 2021

Job details

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Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Main Pay Scale

Additional allowances

• A supportive, cohesive, exciting and vibrant working environment
• The chance to work with genuinely enthusiastic and happy students and staff
• Career prospects within an innovative and ambitious Multi Academy Trust
• A meal allowance, commensurate with your working hours
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Healthcare Cash Plan, from Westfield Health

Teacher of Media job summary

Our opportunity for you

We have a vacancy for a passionate and inspirational Teacher of Media to join our dedicated team. The successful candidate must also be able (or have the potential) to teach Media Studies at KS5.   We are looking for someone who will share in our department approach to inspire all students and foster a love for the subject. You will be given the opportunity to teach Media Studies across a range of key stages and abilities and will be joining us at an exciting time in our development as we evolve towards a knowledge based mastery curriculum. 

Key Information
  • Hours: Full time or Part time 
  • Contract: Permanent 
  • Start date: September 2021 
  • Salary: Main pay scale 
  • Closing Date: Friday 18 June 2021- 12:30pm

Person specification
  •  A graduate, with qualified teacher status;
  • A well-qualified teacher with the ability to teach Media to A Level. 
  • A strong teaching record or an outstanding newly or recently qualified teacher; 
  • Relevant qualifications (both formal and through appropriate experience) to meet the challenge of the appointment; 
  • Excellent relationships with students and parents; 
  • Willingness to explore innovative and dynamic methods for teaching and learning; 
  • High levels of enthusiasm, ambition, energy, resilience and determination; 
  • Competent in the use of ICT both as an administrative tool and in teaching and learning. 

Job description
  •  Ensure that teaching, learning and assessment meets the needs of learners, impacting positively upon student attainment and achievement; that it fulfils as appropriate the demands and requirements of the published Academy curriculum maps, tutor guides and student guides, and external examination syllabuses. 
  • Provide overall direction for student learning within your remit, ensuring that provision is made for students of all abilities; that they are effectively taught and that learning and achievement are evident. Work with other staff in contributing to the total learning of students, including extension and enrichment activities. 
  • Follow the principles of the Academy's curriculum planning and development framework in preparing, delivering and developing, with others (staff and partners from industry and commerce), aspects of the curriculum. 
  • Set and maintain high standards, expectations and aspirations for both staff and students, ensuring that they are treated with dignity and respect and that they receive appropriate guidance, support and recognition. 
  • Ensure that the preparation, planning and delivery of the agreed English Department’s learning programmes, utilising flexible approaches to learning including the application of online learning. 
  • Ensure that appropriate, challenging attainment targets are set and used with all students and monitor their performance in terms of attainment, achievement (both quantifiable value added measures and broader qualitative achievements) and progress in respect of the outcomes from learning programmes and activities. 
  • Evaluate classes’ levels of attainment and achievement against both Academy targets and nationally recognised benchmarks. 
  • Monitor the quality and effectiveness of Assessment of Learning and Assessment for Learning, ensuring that the marking, assessment, recording and reporting processes are both effective and compliant with Academy policies. 
  • Ensure that Academy policies in relation to effective learning, student rewards and managing behaviour are successfully implemented to ensure that curriculum team members secure a well-ordered and disciplined teaching and learning environment. 
  • Operate as a learning tutor and, unless responsible for a Division of the Academy or other specified responsibilities, as a Personal Tutor. 
  • Ensure that learning methods are current and professional development is actively sought to further enhance pedagogy and practice, as well as subject knowledge. 
     

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 Landau Forte Academy Tamworth Sixth Form

School type
Academy, ages 16 to 19
School size
386 pupils enrolled
Age range
16 to 19

Landau Forte Academy QEMS joined the Charitable Trust in September 2011 and delivers education to 11-16 year olds. Sixth Form is a purpose-built establishment providing Level 3 courses, both Advanced BTEC, for whole of Tamworth beyond. The academies are located on shared campus, but operate from their own facilities, with having new bespoke, accommodation, which opened 2011, Sports Hall that 2013.

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