Teacher of Science

Colne Community School, Colchester, Essex, CO7 0QL

Deadline is tomorrow

Earliest start date
22 April 2025
Latest start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
25 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 November 2024

Job details

Job role: Teacher
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Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject: Science
Working pattern: Full time: 100% FTE
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: Main/Upper Pay Scale (M1-U3)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

Be fully qualified to teach through the secondary age range;
To be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people in the school;
Inspire trust and confidence in students and colleagues;
Promote the wider aspirations and values of the school.

(The full details can be found in the attached Job Outline and Person Specification).

We're looking for you if you have:

Teaching experience within the secondary sector;
An excellent knowledge of a range of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies and how to use them effectively;
High expectations of yourself and of others.

The position will suit an experienced or newly qualified teacher. As part of your role, you may be required to teach PSHE should the need arise.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive an overwhelming response.

What the school offers its staff

Why work for The Sigma Trust, The Colne Community School?

We can offer you:

A Competitive Salary
Robust school CPD training programme that enables you to flourish
Opportunities to work with colleagues across the Trust to share resources, ideas and build collaborative relationships
Free tea and coffee available in all team rooms and communal staff room.
Sociable and friendly staff.
Staff weekly wellbeing opportunities.
Staff social events.

Employee benefits include:

Excellent pension scheme
A Health Cash Plan
Free membership to Perkbox, offering discounts and savings
Employee Assistance Programme providing free and confidential advice
Cycle to Work scheme
Eye care plan
Annual free flu vaccination
Discounted gym membership at selected local gyms
Discounted cinema tickets
Eligible for Blue Light Card

Please note that an integration period applies to all new staff joining the Trust, to support introduction into the organisation.

Further details about the role

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Colne Community School for a Teacher of Science to join our Science Faculty.

Our school is a community in which we believe everyone, students and staff alike, should have the opportunity to be nourished and grow. Therefore, we are seeking to recruit a proactive and forward thinking member of staff to enrich the skills and experience already present in our Science Faculty. We aim to foster an inclusive culture where everyone is able to learn from each other. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, confident and diligent.

Colne Community School is a member of the Sigma Trust. The Sigma Trust’s mission is to be ‘Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts’ and this is certainly a message that the Colne invests in too. We work closely with other schools within the Trust to improve standards and ensure that we are creating the best environment for our students to learn and our staff to develop.

Our school community is expanding which makes this a particularly unique and exciting time to join our team. We have a brand new teaching block consisting of 8 new classrooms and 4 specialist Design and Technology rooms fully equipped. A further large scale internal refurbishment took place over the 2022/23 academic year which has improved the school environment for all.

Our ARK values of Aspiration, Resilience and Kindness describe the ethos that flows through our school. We expect all members of staff to feed into our values and lead by example to our students. We believe that every member of staff has the potential to impact on student experience and therefore we encourage our staff, both teaching and support, to immerse themselves in our school culture.

Applications from outstanding professionals who believe they can contribute to our school community are greatly welcomed. If you are willing to invest in us, we will invest in you which we believe makes the experience at the Colne especially exciting.

The position will suit an experienced or newly qualified teacher. As part of your role, you may be required to teach PSHE should the need arise.
Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive an overwhelming response.

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.