Teacher of Science
Woodhey High School, Bury, Lancashire, BL0 9QZThis job expired on 15 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Sept 2024
Closing date
15 April 2024 at 9am
Date listed
22 March 2024
Job details
Job role
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Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- Science, Social sciences
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours, full time, all year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,000-£46,525
Pay scale
- M1-U3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Woodhey High School are seeking a creative and dynamic Science Teacher to join our Innovation Faculty. You should have the ability to inspire and motivate our students and is able to teach at both KS3 and KS4 level across all areas of science. We welcome applications from ECTs as well as more experienced teachers looking to join a thriving and collaborative department in a highly successful school.
The successful candidate will be:
- Enthusiastic, diligent, flexible and innovative with a drive for improvement
- A dedicated team player who develops excellent relationships with students and staff alike
- Professional, leading by example and at all times
- Fully supportive of the positive ethos of the school and a willingness to contribute to wider school life, for example, through extracurricular activities
- Willing to participate in personal continued professional development.
This is an exciting time to join#TeamWoodhey!We are on a real journey of improvement, taking rapid action to make our school the centre of excellence our students deserve. Everything we do is underpinned by our values of Respect and Excellence, and putting students at the heart of what we do. We equip staff with the knowledge, skills and support to flourish in their roles through our Staff Pledge and welfare package. Teachers and students are equipped with an iPad, to support responsive teaching to enable our students to flourish. We are already seeing the impact of our changes, having seen our students achieve the best results in the school’s history in 2023, and student attendance improve from the bottom 10% of all secondary schools nationally, to the top 25% of all secondary schools in just twelve months. Do you want to be a part of our amazing team on this exciting journey?
What the school offers its staff
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 Teaching School, Research School, 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 Woodhey High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1114 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Woodhey High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
Woodhey High School is a secondary school in Ramsbottom, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester.
The school strives for all-round excellence in a dynamic, secure, happy and caring community where everyone has the opportunity to achieve their highest potential for life, encouraging independence and group work, as well as maintaining a positive community.
Woodhey is a dynamic school of opportunity. Pupils and staff have both the desire and determination to reach their full potential in a safe and supportive environment. Mutual respect, high expectation and ambition are at the heart of everything we do.
School life at Woodhey encourages pupils and staff to work hard, play hard, achieve success, and be prepared for the challenges of life.
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