Teacher of Science
Fortis Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 8NUThis job expired on 27 March 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
27 March 2023 at 9am
Date listed
16 March 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- Science, Social sciences
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time, all year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- M1- UPS3, £28,000 – £43,685 FTE salary per annum
Pay scale
- M1- UPS3, £28,000 – £43,685 FTE salary per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about Science? We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and innovative teacher of Science. The suitable candidate will be able to teach across key stages 3, 4 and 5.The successful candidate will have the ability to deliver high quality teaching that drives achievement and inspires a love of learning.You will join a supportive and dedicated Science team within the wider faculty of Innovation which also encompasses Technology, giving rise to many collaborative STEM projects and cross curricular opportunities.This job would suit an early careers teacher or someone who is currently working toward qualified teaching status.
The successful candidate will be:
- Driven to ensure excellent student progress for students of all abilities
- Hardworking, imaginative and have excellent organisational and time management skills
- A dedicated team player who wants to work and engage with colleagues at all levels
In return we can offer:
- A forward thinking and innovative Senior Leadership Team
- An open and transparent workplace that has an honest and respectful culture
- Friendly and enthusiastic children
- Caring, friendly colleagues with a strong team spirit and a positive attitude
- Supportive parents and Academy Councillors
What the school offers its staff
Fortis Academy is a very large 11-18 academy serving a local area of high-density housing in Birmingham’s outer suburbs. The Academy is the largest employer in the ward, with over 200 employees. It is part of the North Area Network of schools, one of six network regions in the city. The setting is uniquely split into a Foundation Academy and Senior Academy.
Fortis Academy’s vision is Enriching Lives. This is underpinned by the values of Character, Resilience and Aspiration. Our curriculum centres around three key areas; a rich and ambitious knowledge-based academic curriculum, a continuous attention to physical and mental well-being, with increasing use of 21st century technologies to support improved outcomes. We believe this combination will help our students lead confident, healthy, and fulfilled lives as adults and ready for the world of work.
Our Academy enjoys a successful partnership with the Shaw Education Trust. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities with staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
To achieve this, we pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all our students, and provide our schools with the support they need to deliver the highest possible quality of education.
Every action we take as a Trust is guided by our core values, with the best interest of our students and staff members at the heart of everything we do.
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 Fortis Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1434 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Fortis Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
Great Barr Academy is sponsored by Shaw Education Trust. We are based in north Birmingham and have a large, diverse and vibrant community of students. We have a well-established and very successful Sixth Form.
We pride ourselves on our strong ethos which values inclusion, good citizenship, mutual respect and collaboration. We aim to provide a wide range of stimulating opportunities to expand our students’ horizons within an environment in which they feel safe and well cared for and in which they can achieve their best, develop self-confidence and flourish as individuals. We encourage the active participation of parents/carers in their children’s education; only when the school, the child and parents/carers are working together will children excel.
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