Teacher of Science - Dawlish College
Dawlish College, Dawlish, Devon, EX7 0BY23 days remaining to apply
Job start date
24 February 2025
Closing date
13 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
17 December 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time position
Contract type
- Fixed term - Required from 24th February until 4th November 2025 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- MPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
Dawlish College
Teacher of Science (Maternity Cover)
Required from 24th February until 4th November 2025
At Dawlish College, our mission is to eradicate educational disadvantage in Dawlish by making the best education available to every child in our community.
We work towards this mission by living out our three values – We Work Hard, We Work Together and We Make Things Better – every single day. This includes starting each day with a Warm Welcome for every pupil and fostering a strong community spirit among our staff.
One of our ‘new recruits’ from this September says:
“I’ve always felt really welcomed from the minute I got here – after about a week it felt like I’d been here forever. It feels like a little family here!”
Miss W – ECT Year 2 Science Teacher
We will provide you with the right environment to build strong, trusting relationships with pupils and colleagues and the entitlement to become a better practitioner – every lesson, every day. This includes a bespoke CPD programme that features in-house deliberate practice and coaching with Steplab alongside participation in recognised national programmes such as Dylan Wiliam’s Embedding Formative Assessment.
Does that sound like the job for you?
Ivy Education Trust is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic individual with drive, passion and creativity to join the Science department at Dawlish College to cover maternity leave. Your challenge will be to teach outstanding and interactive lessons across different topics within the department, leading to high levels of student progress.
Are you:
- an inspirational, dedicated and forward-thinking classroom practitioner?
- able to deliver targeted lessons up to and including GCSE?
- committed to raising standards?
- creative, enthusiastic and committed to active learning?
You will:
- demonstrate excellent planning and organisational skills
- be able to enthuse and motivate all students
- have incredibly high expectations
- be an excellent team player
- believe that all students are capable of success.
If you think you can make a difference to our students and relish the idea of joining our successful, supportive and highly motivated team in the delivery of an excellent education, then we want to hear from you!
Please see the attached information pack for further details regarding this post.
If you have any questions about this post or would like to arrange a visit, please contact recruitment@ivyeducationtrust.co.uk
Application forms and further information are available from our website, www.ivyeducationtrust.co.uk or via email to recruitment@ivyeducationtrust.co.uk
Completed application forms should be sent to recruitment@ivyeducationtrust.co.uk before the closing date stated below.
Closing date for applications is Monday 13th January 2025 at 09:00am. Interviews will take place the following week (week commencing 20th January) once applications have been shortlisted.
What the school offers its staff
Dawlish College is a vibrant and exciting place to be. As a relatively small school we have the luxury of knowing every young person as an individual whilst also being able to offer a wider variety of opportunities. Workingcollaboratively, having fun and enjoying what we do is at the heart of what it means to work with us and webelieve that this is why students thrive, our outcomes are strong and we are growing year on year.
Dawlish College is part of Ivy Education Trust. At Ivy Education Trust, we have exceptional expectations of our students and staff and we welcome applicants who share our commitment to place student learning at the center of everything we do. Our induction programme is excellent, and all staff are involved in an innovative CPD programme. Ivy Education Trust is an inspiring place to work, with staff who are dedicated to increasing opportunities, improving outcomes and improving the life chances of all pupils and families that we serve and to nurture, develop and grow the talent of staff.
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@ivyeducationtrust.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Dawlish College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 748 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Dawlish College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@ivyeducationtrust.co.uk
Dawlish College is a vibrant and exciting place to be where we have the highest expectations of staff and students alike and seek to provide challenge at every available opportunity.
As a small secondary school for pupils aged 11-16, we have a very proud record of holistic support, care and individual attention: the happiness and wellbeing of our students is of paramount importance and is a vital foundation for their growth and development.
Arranging a visit to Dawlish College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@ivyeducationtrust.co.uk.
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