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  • Start date details

    May 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter

  • Closing date

    24 February 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    7 February 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

Languages

Working pattern

Full time: Full Time 32.5 hours per week

Contract type

Fixed term - One term in the first instance with potential to extend on a monthly basis - Maternity or parental leave cover

Pay scale

MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

The person appointed will have:

•A passion for ensuring the best outcomes for all students, including those who are part of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.

  • Excellent subject and pedagogical knowledge.
  • Relentlessly high standards and expectations of all students.

• A commitment to continuous improvement of their own practice, irrelevant of job role, career stage or position

What the school offers its staff

Staff at Murray Park School benefit from:

•Flexible working for all staff.

•A Senior Leadership Team who prioritise staff well-being and consider this when launching any new systems or pedagogical approaches.

•A robust and centralised behaviour system, including an internal Alternative Provision, to ensure learning in our classrooms is disruption free.

•A whole-school CPD package which includes the sharing of recent research and best-practice.

•An approach to pedagogy which ensures teachers teach the highest-quality lessons possible, whilst still allowing teachers the freedom to maintain professional autonomy.

Flexible working opportunities

As above

Commitment to safeguarding

Murray Park School shares a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. Our commitment is underpinned by robust processes and procedures that seek to maximise opportunity, minimise risk and continuously promote a culture that embraces the ethos of safeguarding amongst our workforce.

This post is Exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020 and is subject to an enhanced DBS Disclosure check.

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About Murray Park Community School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1158 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Phone number
01332 515921

Murray Park is a dynamic and forward-looking 11-16 mixed comprehensive school on the western fringes of the city of Derby. It is a Foundation Status school, but has a close working relationship with the local authority.

We cater for approximately 1111 students, situated on a spacious site surrounded by greenery. We serve students from the Derby City area, within reach of the Derbyshire countryside and our cohort sizes are growing each year.

Our students reflect the full academic ability range and there is a huge breadth to the socio-economic status of our families.

Arranging a visit to Murray Park Community School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@murraypark.derby.sch.uk.

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