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  • Job start date

    2 September 2019

  • Closing date

    24 June 2019 at 1am

  • Date listed

    14 June 2019

Job details

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Working pattern

Full-time equivalent salary

Main pay range 1 to Main pay range 6, £22,917 to £35,008

Additional allowances

In return we will offer you:
• A chance to join a strong, highly skilled and committed staff with a great team spirit who are dedicated to school improvement
• Friendly, caring, hardworking pupils who love learning and want to achieve
• Excellent support mechanisms and opportunities for personal and professional development
• A well-resourced and stimulating environment
• Established links with our collaboration schools

Temporary Class Teacher (full-time) job summary

Joseph Locke Primary School
Job Description: Class Teacher
Salary Scale: Main Pay Scale 1-6
All teachers will accept the “Conditions of Employment” and the “Professional Duties” of
teachers as contained within the “School Teachers` Pay and Conditions” documentation
appropriate to the time of employment.
Responsible to the Co-Headteachers
Purpose of the Job
1. To carry out the professional duties of a Main Grade Teacher under the Teacher’s
Contract (as defined in Part of the recent School Teachers’ pay and Conditions
document) ensuring the education and welfare of a class/group of pupils having due
regard to the school’s aims, values and curriculum.
2. To share in the corporate responsibility for the wellbeing and discipline of all pupils.
3. To promote good relationships with parents/carers and the community.
4. To undertake any other duties, commensurate within the grade at the discretion of
the Co-Headteachers.
Main Activities and responsibilities
Professional Attributes
i) Have high expectations of children and young people including a commitment to
ensuring that they can achieve their full educational potential and to establishing fair,
respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with them.
ii) To hold positive values and attitudes and adopt high standards of behaviour in your
professional role.
iii) Maintain an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the professional duties of
teachers and the statutory framework within which they work, and contribute to the
development, implementation and evaluation of school policies and practice,
including those designed to promote equality of opportunity.
iv) (a) Communicate effectively with children, young people and colleagues.
(b) Communicate effectively with parents and carers, conveying timely and relevant
information about attainment, objectives, progress and well-being.
(c) Recognise that communication is a two-way process and encourage parents and
carers to participate in discussions about the progress, development and well-being
of children and young people.
v) Recognise and respect the contributions that colleagues, parents and carers can
make to the development and well-being of children and young people, and to raising
their levels of attainment.
vi) Have a commitment to collaboration and co-operative working, where
appropriate.
vii) Be able to evaluate your performance and be committed to improving their
practice through appropriate professional development.
viii) Have a creative and constructively critical approach towards innovation; being
prepared to adapt your practice where benefits and improvements are identified.
viii) Act upon advice and feedback and be open to coaching and mentoring.
Professional Knowledge and Understanding
i) Have an excellent, up-to-date working knowledge and understanding of a range
of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies and know how to use
and adapt them, including how to personalise learning to provide opportunities for
all learners to achieve their potential.
ii) Know the assessment requirements and arrangements for the subjects/areas you
teach, including those relating to public examinations.
iii) Know a range of approaches to assessment, including the importance of
formative assessment.
iv) Know how to use local and national statistical information to evaluate the
effectiveness of your teaching, to monitor the progress of your pupils and to raise
levels of attainment.
v) Know how to use reports and other sources of external information related to
assessment in order to provide learners with accurate and constructive feedback
on their strengths, weaknesses, attainment, progress and areas for development,
including action plans for improvement.
vi) Have a secure knowledge and understanding of the primary curriculum and
related pedagogy including: the contribution that your subjects/curriculum areas
can make to cross-curricular learning; and recent relevant developments.
vii) Know and understand the relevant statutory and non-statutory curricula and
frameworks, including the Primary Framework and other relevant initiatives.
viii) Know how to use skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT to support your teaching
and wider professional activities.
ix) Understand how children and young people develop and how the progress, rate
of development and well-being of learners are affected by a range of
developmental, social, religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic influences.
x) Know how to make effective personalised provision for your pupils, including
those for whom English is an additional language or who have SEN or
disabilities, and how to take practical account of diversity and promote equality
and inclusion in your teaching.
xi) Understand the roles of colleagues such as the Inclusion Manager/SENCo, and
the contributions they can make to the learning, development and well-being of
children and young people.
xii) Know when to draw on the expertise of colleagues, such as the Child Protection
Officer and Inclusion Manager/SENCo, and to refer to sources of information,
advice and support from external agencies.
xiii) Know the current legal requirements, national policies and guidance on the
safeguarding and promotion of the well-being of children and young people.
xiv) Know the local arrangements concerning the safeguarding of children and young
people.
xv) Know how to identify potential child abuse or neglect and follow safeguarding
procedures.
xvi) Know how to identify and support children and young people whose progress,
development or well-being is affected by changes or difficulties in their personal
circumstances, and when to refer them to colleagues for specialist support.
Professional Skills
i) Plan for progression across the age and ability range you teach, designing
effective learning sequences within lessons and across series of lessons
informed by secure subject/curriculum knowledge.
ii) Design opportunities for learners to develop their literacy, numeracy, ICT and
thinking and learning skills appropriate within your phase and context
iii) Plan, set and assess homework, other out-of-class assignments and coursework
for examinations, where appropriate, to sustain learners' progress and to extend
and consolidate their learning
iv) Teach challenging, well-organised lessons and sequences of lessons across the
age and ability range you teach in which they:
(a) use an appropriate range of teaching strategies and resources, including elearning,
which meet learners' needs and take practical account of diversity and
promote equality and inclusion
(b) build on the prior knowledge and attainment of those they teach in order that
learners meet learning objectives and make sustained progress
(c) develop concepts and processes which enable learners to apply new knowledge,
understanding and skills
(d) adapt their language to suit the learners they teach, introducing new ideas and
concepts clearly, and using explanations, questions, discussions and plenaries
effectively
(e) manage the learning of individuals, groups and whole classes effectively,
modifying their teaching appropriately to suit the stage of the lesson and the needs of
the learners.
v) Teach engaging and motivating lessons informed by well-grounded expectations of
learners and designed to raise levels of attainment
vi) Make effective use of an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring
and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives and
monitoring learners' progress and levels of attainment
vii) Provide pupils, colleagues, parents and carers with timely, accurate and constructive
feedback on learners' attainment, progress and areas for development
viii) Support and guide pupils so that they can reflect on their learning, identify the
progress they have made, set positive targets for improvement and become
successful independent learners
ix) Use assessment as part of your teaching to diagnose learners' needs, set realistic
and challenging targets for improvement and plan future teaching
x) Review the effectiveness of your teaching and its impact on learners' progress,
attainment and well-being, refining approaches where necessary.
xi) Review the impact feedback and guide pupils on how to improve their attainment
xii) (a) Establish a purposeful and safe learning environment which complies with current
legal requirements, national policies and guidance on safeguarding so that learners
feel secure and sufficiently confident to make an active contribution to learning and to
the school.
(b) Make use of the local arrangements concerning the safeguarding of children and
young people.
(c) Identify and use opportunities to personalise and extend learning through out-ofschool
contexts where possible making links between in-school learning and learning
in out-of-school contexts.
xiii) (a) Manage learners' behaviour constructively by establishing and maintaining a clear
and positive framework for discipline, in line with the school's Positive Behaviour
Policy.
(b) Use a range of behaviour management techniques and strategies, adapting them
as necessary to promote the self-control and independence of learners.
xiv) Promote learners' self-control, independence and cooperation through developing
their social, emotional and behavioural skills
xv) Work as a team member and identify opportunities for working with colleagues and
sharing the development of effective practice with them
General responsibilities and Equal Opportunities
i. Taking appropriate responsibility for one’s own health, safety and welfare and the
health and safety of pupils, visitors and work colleagues in accordance with the
requirements of legislation and locally-adopted policies, including taking responsibility
for raising any concerns with an appropriate manager
ii. To ensure the school’s policies and procedures are adhered to.
iii. To ensure equality and diversity opportunities are given to all.
iv. To support the school’s/ Borough’s Equal Opportunities policies including Anti-Racist
Policy.
Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post,
each individual task undertaken may not be identified.
Employees will be expected to comply with the reasonable request from the Headteacher to
undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children,
young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this
commitment.

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 Joseph Locke Primary School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
View all Primaryjobs
School size
424 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11

School location

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