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Teacher of Science

Fortis Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 8NU

This job expired on 15 February 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  15 February 2024 at 7:53am

• Date listed

  25 January 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: Science
• Working pattern: Full time: Full Time, Whole Year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: M1- UPS3, £30,000 – £46,525 FTE salary per annum
• Pay scale: M1- UPS3, £30,000 – £46,525 FTE salary per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Are you passionate about Science or even have a general interest in Science?

  We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and innovative teacher of Science. Ideally candidates will be able to offer experience of teaching Science across key stages 3-5 and will have the ability to deliver high quality teaching that drives achievement and inspires a love of learning.However, we are willing to offer training for the right candidate. You will join a supportive and dedicated Science team within the Innovation Faculty.

  The successful candidate will be:

  • Driven to ensure excellent student progress for students of all abilities
  • Hardworking, imaginative and have excellent organisational and time management skills
  • A dedicated team player who wants to work and engage with colleagues at all levels

  In return we can offer:

  • A forward thinking and innovative Senior Leadership Team
  • An open and transparent workplace that has an honest and respectful culture
  • Friendly and enthusiastic children
  • Caring, friendly colleagues with a strong team spirit and a positive attitude
  • Supportive parents and Academy Councillors

What the school offers its staff

Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
• Cycle to work scheme

• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

Colleagues within the Trust benefit from:

• Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
• Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
• Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
• Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
• Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
• Participating in peer reviews.
• Access to a suite of online courses.
• Placement projects within our family of schools.

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 Fortis Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1339 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Fortis Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/fortis-academy (opens in new tab)

Great Barr Academy is sponsored by Shaw Education Trust. We are based in north Birmingham and have a large, diverse and vibrant community of students. We have a well-established and very successful Sixth Form.

We pride ourselves on our strong ethos which values inclusion, good citizenship, mutual respect and collaboration. We aim to provide a wide range of stimulating opportunities to expand our students’ horizons within an environment in which they feel safe and well cared for and in which they can achieve their best, develop self-confidence and flourish as individuals. We encourage the active participation of parents/carers in their children’s education; only when the school, the child and parents/carers are working together will children excel.

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