Teacher of Science
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy, Heanor, Derbyshire, DE75 7RAThis job expired on 9 June 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
9 June 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 May 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
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Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week, teacher contract
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to UPS3 (£28,000 to £43,684)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, innovative and enthusiastic professional who combines excellent organisational and teaching skills. You should have the ability to inspire and motivate our students. There will be opportunities at KS3, KS4 and KS5. This is the opportunity to work within a strong, supportive and friendly faculty with a track record of excellent external examination results and a collegiate approach to working. Over recent years our Science faculty have delivered some outstanding outcomes nationally. Teaching and learning is at the heart of our collaborative practice. You will have the opportunity to work alongside colleagues committed to delivering a diverse, and challenging curriculum which seeks to ensure the material students learn is current and relevant. You will also have excellent subject knowledge, the ability to teach KS3 and the passion to teach KS4.
A bespoke CPD programme at Heanor Gate means that tailored support is matched to career stage expectations and individuals continually develop their own professional practice in line with personal priorities. For ECT’s a comprehensive package of support and mentoring is offered both at Heanor Gate but also in collaboration with other ECT’s across the trust’s wide range of schools.
What the school offers its staff
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy isa ‘good’ secondary school and sixth form (Ofsted March 2022) with a strong commitment to ongoing professional development. Over the past 5 years we have developed a fantastic culture amongst the students which is rooted in strong discipline and has culminated in a student body full of aspiration, commitment and success. The staff buy into the hashtag #TeamHeanor and this ethos of collegiality, team values and moral compass is what makes the unique working environment at Heanor Gate so enjoyable and fulfilling.
We believe that through an ethos of ‘Aspire, Learn and Achieve’, all of our students will achieve their very best educational outcomes. This ethos is at the heart of everything that we do. We want our students to believe that they can achieve whatever they want to with hard work, resilience and self-motivation.
We deliver a challenging yet inspiring curriculum and an unrivalled level of academic and pastoral support, and believe that what we offer students will support them to achieve success in the classroom and beyond; academically, personally and socially. We aim to instil students with a love of learning as well as helping them to become responsible, independent members of the community.
As well as the staff being united by the concept of #TeamHeanor, to ensure that our students succeed at school and in life, all students work towards demonstrating the following #TeamHeanor values in all aspects of school life:
- Respect
- Pride
- Unity
- Resilience
- Integrity
- Organisation
As part of the Spencer Academies Trust, we work alongside other schools in ensuring we deliver the very best education possible.
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 Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1388 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Heanor Gate Spencer Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- rebeccabaker@heanorgatespencer.com
- Phone number
- 01773 716396
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
HGSA is a ‘good’ secondary school and sixth form which has shown significantly “improved performance to suggest that the school could be judged outstanding”. (Ofsted, May 2022).
Over the past 5 years, we have developed a fantastic culture amongst the students which is rooted in strong discipline and has culminated in a student body full of aspiration, commitment and success. “Leaders and staff are determined to enhance the lives and life chances of all pupils in this school.” (Ofsted, May 2022). The staff buy into the hashtag #TeamHeanor and this ethos of collegiality, team values and moral compass is what makes the unique working environment at Heanor Gate so enjoyable and fulfilling.
We believe that through an ethos of ‘Aspire, Learn and Achieve’, all of our students will achieve their very best educational outcomes. This ethos is at the heart of everything that we do. We want our students to believe that they can achieve whatever they want to with hard work, resilience and self-motivation.
We deliver a challenging yet inspiring curriculum and an unrivalled level of academic and pastoral support. We believe that what we offer students will support them to achieve success in the classroom and beyond; academically, personally and socially. “Pupils’ behaviour is very good. Lessons are calm and pupils work with focus”, (Ofsted, May 2022). We aim to instil students with a love of learning as well as helping them to become responsible, independent members of the community.
We believe that all staff are role models to our students and as such should continue to grow professionally. As such, our bespoke and strategic CPD model is extensive and supplemented by engagement with the Spencer Alliance for Leadership & Teaching but also through fully funded membership to the Chartered College of Teaching.
As part of the Spencer Academies Trust, we work alongside other schools in ensuring we deliver the very best education possible.
Spencer Academies Trust
The Spencer Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust with schools across the East Midlands, and with a strategic focus on Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
A high performing regional MAT with a national reputation for excellence, Spencer Academies Trust schools include primary, secondary and sixth form provision. Our academies work across highly diverse city and rural communities, including a strong presence in Derby and Nottingham. Standards and expectations in trust schools are high – and the trust’s focus on rapid improvement on the journey to outstanding education delivery.
Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.
We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.
Mission: Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
Vision: Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.
We Believe:
• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more
Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.
Arranging a visit to Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email rebeccabaker@heanorgatespencer.com.
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