Teacher of Science

Kingsway Park High School, Rochdale, Lancashire, OL16 4XA

18 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
15 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
26 September 2024

Job details

Job role: Teacher
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject: Science
Working pattern: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Primary Purpose:

We are currently looking to appoint a new Teacher of Science who has a real passion for their subject and is equipped with the skills to maximise outcomes for students in Science at both KS3 and KS4. Science at KPHS follows the AQA specification where we teach both Trilogy Combined and Triple Science. At KS3 we have a sequenced curriculum which enables students to build their knowledge and skills sequentially leading into KS4 following a bespoke curriculum using the AQA specification.

The science team is a warm and welcoming team, with a wealth of experience across all three sciences. We take great pride in our support of ECTs and equally in providing in-house CPL for staff to constantly develop. We currently run our own CPL sessions to increase capacity to teach at grade 7-9 and enable staff to deliver content outside of their specialism. We are a large team with currently 13 full time teachers, two part time teachers and two technicians. Due to the popularity of Triple Science, we are now looking to expand our team further. We have developed a strong ethos around developing staff whether that be in their pedagogy or in increasing opportunities for responsibilities for those looking for career progression.

The team also offer extensive extracurricular sessions for students which we always encourage new staff to get involved with whether it be science club, games club or starting something new around a personal passion.

Teaching Duties and Responsibilities:

Effectively contribute to the Science department at KPHS by seeking to continuously maximise the achievements of outcomes of students at both KS3 and KS4.
Encourage the use of a variety of teaching strategies, which involve planned formative assessment and active learning strategies across the department.
Ensure lessons across the department are differentiated for the individual needs of students.
Seek to ensure students are engaged and sustained through provision of clear structure for lessons, maintaining pace, motivation, and challenges within the science curriculum.
Encourage staff within your department to allow students to think and talk about their learning, develop self-control and independence, concentrate, persevere, and listen.
Work actively to create an ethos that promotes equality, celebrates cultural and academic diversity, and ensures the inclusion of students of all abilities, including those with special educational needs.
Display sound knowledge and understanding of their subject area and communicate this effectively with staff and students.
Establish good relationships with both staff and students that promote the achievement of learning, whilst maintaining a purposeful and positive atmosphere in the classroom
Set the learning in lessons and schemes of work in the context of what has gone before and make it clear what it is intended to achieve.
Monitor and intervene when teaching and leading to ensure effective learning and maintain a safe environment in which students feel confident.
Self-evaluate teaching of self and others critically to improve effectiveness.
Keep full attendance records sending electronic class attendance data promptly.
Plan and prepare lessons and schemes of work in accordance with school policy, ensuring a variety of learning opportunities for the development of key skills.
Maintain individual records of all student experiences and achievements within the department and use data to inform future planning.
Prepare, implement, and monitor Individual Learning Plans for students in accordance with school policy. Quality assure these plans whilst leading the team.
Work collaboratively with colleagues, parents/carers, educational psychologists, therapists, social services, and other outside agencies who may be involved with students for whom you have a responsibility.
Have a thorough awareness of, and regard for, the confidential nature of many aspects of school information relating to individual students, groups of students and year group analysis.
Promote positive student behaviour in line with school policies within the Science department.
Assess academic performance in the light of previous achievement to enhance the value-added results of all students.
Assess how well learning outcomes have been achieved and use them to improve specific aspects of learning and teaching.
Assess and record students’ progress systematically and keep accurate records to check work is understood and completed. Ability to monitor strengths and weaknesses, inform planning and recognise the grade/level at which all classes and overall year groups are achieving.
Set sufficient work for formal assessment, such that students understanding can be regularly checked and so that students can be fully prepared for the demands of public examinations and/or coursework.
Mark, monitor and return work within a reasonable and agreed time span providing constructive oral and or written feedback that clearly indicates strategies for improvement. Ensure students are very clear as to how to move specifically to the next grade/level.
Attend parent’s evenings according to the school calendar to keep students’ families and/or

their carers

What the school offers its staff

Kingsway Park High School

Kingsway Park High School was established in 2010 and joined the Altus Education Partnership in February 2022. We are now a very popular oversubscribed school (1350 students in years 7-11 and 190 staff) located in central Rochdale. We are very proud of the high-quality facilities, resources, and environment that we provide for both staff and students.

At Kingsway Park High School we strive to transform students’ lives. Through our relationships, we endeavour to instil both resilience and an intrinsic motivation to become confident, creative, and highly skilled students, capable of meeting tomorrow’s challenges head on. We strive to establish a culture rooted in achievement and progress that encourages our students to grow academically, personally and socially; equipping them with the values of equality, fairness and openness. We pride ourselves on our relentless drive to achieve outstanding, high-quality teaching that provides a safe, supportive and encouraging environment for all our students to be able to realise their academic potential in pursuit of educational excellence.

Altus Education Partnership

The Altus Education Partnership is a Multi Academy Trust and was established in April 2017 by the Governing Body of Rochdale Sixth Form College, an outstanding A-Level provider founded in 2010. The college was awarded Outstanding status by Ofsted in 2013 and has developed a national reputation for excellence, having been used in Ofsted case studies for sharing best practice. The development of the Trust stemmed from a commitment to raising aspirations and improving the life chances of young people throughout the borough of Rochdale. In 2019 the Trust was successful in its application to open a new free school, the Edgar Wood Academy, which serves the local community in Middleton and Heywood.

We are committed to supporting all children in their academies to progress to a successful career, life, and employment path of their choice.

All our academies will share a collective identity as providers of the highest quality teaching with high expectations of learners, coupled with effective assessment and intervention. Young people in our academies will engage with opportunities to develop their own skills and aptitudes to support their progression, while making valuable contributions to their communities. Leaders and teachers will take a collaborative approach, sharing best practice at a local, regional and national level, to continuously improve the performance and outcomes of all academies in the Trust.

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.