Teacher of Science
Coombeshead Academy, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 1PTThis job expired on 18 November 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
18 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
8 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS - UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Purpose
To be an effective teacher and tutor who supports and challenges all students to achieve their full potential.
Accountabilities:
1. To maintain a thorough and up-to-date knowledge of the teaching of your subject(s) and take account of wider curriculum and pastoral developments which are relevant to your work.
2. To plan tutorials, activities, lessons, and sequences of lessons to meet students’ individual learning needs.
3. To use a range of appropriate strategies and follow School policies for tutoring, teaching, behaviour management and classroom management.
4. To do all you can, involving parents and other agencies, to ensure that because of your tutoring and teaching you promote the health, safety, economic wellbeing and achievement of your students.
5. To assess, monitor and record the progress of students in your teaching and tutorial groups and give them clear and constructive feedback.
6. To set well-grounded expectations for students in your teaching and tutorial groups using information about prior knowledge and previous attainment, making progress as good or better than similar students nationally.
7. To take responsibility for your own professional development and use the outcomes to improve your tutoring and teaching and your students’ learning.
8. To make an active contribution to the policies, aspirations and plans of your year group, of your curriculum team and of the school.
UPS2: UPS2 teachers are expected to make a sustained and substantial contribution to the school based on threshold criteria.
UPS3: UPS3 teachers play a critical role in the life of the school. They provide a role model for teaching and learning, make a distinctive contribution to the raising of students’ standards and contribute effectively to the work of the wider team. They take advantage of the appropriate opportunities for professional development and use outcomes effectively to improve students’ learning.
What the school offers its staff
What we can offer you:
- The opportunity to work in a school where all staff are viewed as part of the family
- Somewhere where leaders look after you as well as encourage you to pursue your aspirations and goals as part of our trust, teaching and research school
- An organisation where curriculum design and innovation are valued and respected
- A school where the classroom and the learning experience for young people is the centre of everything that we do
- A school with a healthy view of the work life balance needed to be a great teacher
- Excellent schemes of learning and pre-planned resources to support workload reduction.
- A sensible and balanced approach to assessment in order to further reduce workload.
- The freedom to experiment in your own classroom.
- A clear behaviour policy which supports you to be able to teach with enthusiasm and freedom to a receptive audience.
- Opportunities to share your practice and learn from others across the trust and the teaching school alliance.
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 Coombeshead Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 872 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Coombeshead Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- caroline.battong@educationsouthwest.org.uk
School location
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