English Teacher - Whole School Literacy
Worthing High School
West Sussex
- Expired
- Salary:
- Main Scale/Upper Pay Scale + TLR2b (£4,302)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2015 or earlier if possible
- Apply by:
- 7 November 2014
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a highly motivated and talented teacher to work within our successful English Department and to drive whole school literacy across the curriculum.
The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate consistently high quality teaching where students make good progress.
We can offer you:
- The opportunity to work with well-motivated students and supportive parents
- The full support of a professional staff team
- Teaching at KS3 and KS4
- The chance to work in an innovative and forward thinking school
- Professional Development in preparation for your next step
Are you someone who:
- Is able to motivate and inspire students?
- Is an outstanding teacher of English?
- Has excellent communication skills?
- Has a strong commitment to running extra-curricular activities?
- Wants to make a real difference to the lives of our students?
For further information or to arrange a visit please contact Diana Chamberlain on 01903 237864. Full details and an application form can be downloaded from the school website www.worthinghigh.net/vacancies
Closing date for receipt of applications is 7 November 2014 by 5.00 pm
Interviews will take place on 14 November 2014
Completed applications should be sent to Diana Chamberlain at the above address or emailed to vacancies@worthinghigh.net
Worthing High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
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Worthing High School is an academy and a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales with company number 8276210. The Registered Office is at: South Farm Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN14 7AR
Worthing High School
South Farm Road,
Worthing,
West Sussex,
BN14 7AR
Tel: 01903 237864
Fax: 01903 231709
E-mail: achieve@worthinghigh.net
Website: www.worthinghigh.net
Headteacher: Carolyn Dickinson
Number on roll: 792
Attached documents
About Worthing High School
About us
Choosing the right school for either the first step in your career or as you progress is a vitally important decision. Worthing High School offers a good education experience for our students ensuring they feel happy, valued and secure. At Worthing High School we believe that we can offer all of these things.
Everyone at Worthing High works hard to create a close community of learners in which there is a clear focus upon raising standards of student achievement.
The school is greatly valued by the community it serves and is a popular choice for prospective students and their parents. A marked feature of the school is the happy, friendly, caring ethos which enables our students to settle quickly. We believe that this is vital if students are to achieve their full potential. As a school we have high standards for our students– maximum effort and excellent levels of achievement are expected.
Worthing High thrives on being a community in the true sense of the term as it seeks to achieve a partnership between governors, teachers, parents and students as well as with our wider partners.
Students also gain from an outstanding programme of enrichment activities that are extensive, fulfilling and diverse. The broad, balanced and relevant curriculum provided by the school serves to ensure that opportunities are available to enable pupils to fully develop their interests and talents.
Our website aims to introduce you to our school but there can be no substitute for a personal visit. We would be delighted to show you around during a working day and answer any questions that you may have.
Worthing High School is part of the South Downs Education Trust (SDET).
The Trust’s mission statement of ‘Always Pursuing Excellence’ is fundamental in achieving the high expectations of working together to ensure every child and young person is able to reach their true potential.
The Trust’s shared vision is focused around five core values: to work together and support each other as a community; to continually try to improve and develop resilience; to show integrity with honesty and truthfulness at all times; to show respect in valuing and accepting differences with courtesy and consideration; and to always pursue excellence and strive to surpass our shared expectations.
The Trust aims to contribute positively to a self-improving school-led system that improves process, reduces unnecessary complexity and duplication and spreads high standards so that all the schools within the Trust are ‘Good’ or better both in terms of their Ofsted judgement and in the eyes of its pupils, parents/carers and wider community.
OFSTED Report
https://www.worthinghigh.net/page/?title=Ofsted&pid=15
Safeguarding Policy Documents
https://www.worthinghigh.net/page/?title=Safeguarding&pid=55
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