Teacher of Science
Manchester Communication Academy, Manchester, M40 8NT10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
18 May 2026 at 9am
Date listed
8 May 2026
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Physical education
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 - M6 / UPS3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Standard duties and responsibilities
- Have due regard to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
- Promote and implement equality and diversity
- Adhere to legislation and the Academy’s policies and procedures
- Participate in performance reviews and professional/personal development activities.
- Will model the Academy’s values at all times to generate a shared purpose
Key Tasks
- To be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- To plan appropriate learning for all children, monitoring progress and intervening when there is underperformance.
- To create a high quality, rich, stimulating and enabling learning environment.
- To work collaboratively and flexibly to ensure: effective planning, successful learning, better than expected progress and accurate and moderated assessment outcomes.
- To manage the learning environment, resources and time to ensure effective learning takes place.
- To monitor and celebrate children’s learning, progress and achievement and record and report upon progress, including details on attendance, behaviour, development and additional needs.
- To be able to set clear targets, based on prior attainment, for pupils’ learning.
- To have a detailed professional knowledge of the curriculum including an understanding of the progression of learning and development and national testing.
- To accurately assess children’s development and to help create a successful framework for assessment.
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To work effectively with TAs and other colleagues who support children in their learning and beyond.
To establish positive relationships with parents/carers, ensuring parental involvement in learning and progress
To constantly strive to improve own performance and identify areas for self - improvement, attending appropriate training.
To keep own CPD record up to date.
To undertake any other duties as deemed appropriate by the line manager and commensurate with the post.
To maintain a positive attitude, seeking to bring out the best in learners and having high expectations for all.
What the school offers its staff
Staff Benefits
- Access to Staff Employee Assistance Programme & other staff wellbeing services
- One additional ‘Flexi-Day’ of paid leave that can be taken during term time after 6 months’ service
- Free On Site Parking
- Cycle to Work Scheme & On Site Bike Storage
- Car Leasing Scheme
- On Site Gym & Changing Room Facilities
- Electric Car Chargers
- Staff Bistro
- Free Tea & Coffee
- Corporate Eye-Care Scheme
- Reduced Teaching Load
- High quality weekly CPD offer
- Early Friday finishes
Further information about the job
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Manchester Communication Academy
- School type
- Academies, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1299 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Manchester Communication Academy website
- Email address
- hr@mca.manchester.sch.uk
Manchester Communication Academy serves the community of Harpurhey and its surrounding districts. We are an 11-16 secondary school with a primary school also on site. Close collaboration between the two schools is fundamental to our way of working.
Not only is the Academy committed to offering our students the highest quality learning experience but the Social Investment Department is dedicated to offering opportunities and support to our local families and wider community. Together, our driving force is to mitigate the impact of disadvantage and ensuring that the young people that we serve are equipped and ready to be successful and happy adults who we are proud to know.
Everyone at MCA shares these same values and this is important to us.
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