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Teacher of Science

St Matthew's RC High School, Manchester, Lancashire, M40 0EW

This job expired on 14 October 2019 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 January 2020

• Closing date

  14 October 2019 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  7 October 2019

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Science
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
• Full-time equivalent salary: Main pay range 1 to Main pay range 6, £23,720 to £34,664

Teacher of Science job summary

The Role
To deliver outstanding teaching and learning in all aspects of your subject and therefore help pupils achieve excellent academic outcomes.

Key responsibilities
• To be a model of excellent practice, maintaining a clear focus on outstanding delivery to pupils.
• To assist in embedding consistent pedagogy and practice for teaching in your department by contributing to CPD sessions and sharing resources.
• To contribute in the development of consistently high quality medium term plans (MPTs) and long term plans (LTPs), for both Key Stages 3 and 4.
• To provide a nurturing classroom and school environment which enables pupils to develop as learners.

Duties as a classroom teacher:

Teaching and Learning
▪ With direction from the Head of Department, and within the context of the school’s curriculum and LTPs/MTPs, plan and prepare effective teaching modules and lessons.
▪ Teach engaging and effective lessons that motivate, inspire and improve pupil attainment.
▪ Use regular assessments to set targets for pupils, monitor pupil progress and respond accordingly to the results of such monitoring.
▪ To produce/contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual and groups of pupils.
▪ Develop plans and processes for the classroom with measurable results and evaluate those results to make improvements in pupil achievement.
▪ Ensure that all pupils achieve good rates of progress, given their starting points.
▪ Maintain regular and productive communication with pupils, parents and carers, to report on progress, sanctions and rewards and all other communications.
▪ Direct and supervise support staff assigned to lessons and when required participate in related recruitment and selection activities.
▪ Implement and adhere to the school’s behaviour management policy, ensuring the health and well-being of pupils is maintained at all times.
▪ Participate in preparing pupils for external examinations.
▪ Identify the intervention needs of pupils in your classes and liaise with relevant members of staff to ensure needs are met.
▪ To play a full and active role in all quality assurance processes, reviewing and improving rates of progress for all classes and implementing and reviewing in-class interventions for targeted pupils with concerning rates of progress.

Wider school responsibilities
 Support the school’s aims and objectives, take a full part in the liturgy and prayer life of the school and play a major role in the development of the school’s Catholic ethos and fulfilment of the School Mission Statement.
 Monitor and support the overall progress and pastoral development of pupils as a teacher/ Form Tutor
 Fulfil any other reasonable duties requested by the Headteacher

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 St Matthew's RC High School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1290 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• Email address: a.espley@smrchs.com
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-matthew-s-rc-high-school-manchester (opens in new tab)

St Matthew's is a diverse and energetic comprehensive school, with approximately 1400 pupils forming our school community. We have strong, long standing links with all our partner primary schools and sixth form colleges, which allows us to work well in supporting our pupils through key transitional points in their education.

Working in partnership with St Patrick’s National Teaching School, we are excited about the journey we have embarked on with them, and are committed to working proactively and dynamically, in order to develop and embed effective and sustainable strategies and policies designed to secure excellent outcomes for all of our young people.

As a Catholic school, we place Christ at the heart of all we do, and encourage of staff and pupils to be ambassadors of Christ. Through this, we are able to offer new staff the opportunity to join our St Matthew's family, where we all value and support each other, recognising good in all that others do.

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