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Teacher of Sociology and/or Health and Social Care

Blenheim High School, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 9BH

This job expired on 11 October 2019 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 January 2020

• Closing date

  11 October 2019 at 1am

• Date listed

  13 September 2019

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Health and social care, Sociology
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Full-time equivalent salary: Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £24,859 to £40,520 per year (full-time equivalent)

Teacher of Sociology and/or Health and Social Care job summary

Job Purpose:
• To ensure that all students make maximum progress. This particularly applies to pupil premium students.
• To ensure students of all ages are supported and challenged as necessary and achieve optimum levels of engagement with school life.
• To support members of the department as necessary thus ensuring that the student experience and progress is maximised.
• To help maximise student attendance by delivering creative, innovative and rewarding lessons.
• To role model excellent practices, actively encouraging other members of the department to do the same, going ‘above and beyond’, intervening with students outside the curriculum so they ‘catch up’ as quickly as possible.
• To support Heads of Year so that underachieving students have barriers removed from their learning and regularly show good learning behaviours including being properly equipped for lessons.
• To follow department and whole school protocols therefore displaying solidarity with colleagues.
• To ensure lessons are well planned and follow schemes of work with regular and consistent assessments providing students with high quality feedback where they are accountable for acting upon via DIRT marking.
• To promote a culture of shared practice in the department where resources are shared, practices are discussed and peer lesson observations take place on a regular basis; typically half termly.
• To communicate with parents on a range of issues, particularly where students are particularly over or underachieving.
• To communicate appropriate information to teaching and support staff.
• To contribute to a confidential record of issues affecting the educational progress of students.
• To be highly visible and a point of contact for students.
• To keep abreast of national developments in specifications, examination requirements and teaching processes within the Department.
• To contribute to the update of schemes of work that provide a minimum entitlement to students and also challenge them to fulfil their potential.

Safeguarding
• To be familiar with school policies, in particular safeguarding procedures, and promote the welfare of children.

Key responsibilities:
• To advocate the place of Psychology and Sociology in the curriculum and the benefits it will provide students once they leave school.
• Ensure vulnerable and pupil premium students can succeed through differentiation and stimulating lesson delivery.
• Be a highly visible point of contact for students and families when they require assistance or information relating to the department.
• Attend department and whole staff CPD sessions and meetings as required and actively engage in them.
• Ensure school uniform is worn correctly.
• Produce internal and external reports as necessary.
• To contribute to whole school events as necessary and weekly duties.
• Communicate effectively and purposefully with parents so they are well informed.
• Promote positive attitudes to learning and behaviour for learning with vulnerable students.
• Liaise with the SEND Department to ensure students with unique needs are effectively catered for.
• Uphold and promote the values and ethos of the school.
• The post holder will be expected to run after school, each week, at least one voluntary 60 minute academic ‘clinic’ on their own subject to a group of KS4 or KS5 students as identified by the Head of Department, Deputy Head (Curriculum) or Headteacher. This clinic will be part of a wider, whole school, extended day.

Commitment to safeguarding

Blenheim High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our Child Protection and Safeguarding policy along with our Equality policy can be found below. All successful candidates will be subject to DBS checks along with other relevant employment checks.

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About Blenheim High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1329 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Blenheim High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@blenheim.surrey.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/blenheim-high-school-epsom (opens in new tab)

Comprehensive state funded academy secondary school [mixed], based in Epsom, Surrey.

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