Teacher of English
Firth Park Academy
Sheffield
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS + TLR 2b Available
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- January 2015
Job overview
Firth Park Academy is a larger-than-average-sized secondary school located in the north east of Sheffield. The school is a specialist college for the arts and has gained national recognition through a range of awards including Investors in People. We were recognised as a National College Development School in 2009. We are proud of our richly diverse school population and their ambitions and aspirations to succeed: staff, students and parents all work in partnership to achieve the very best outcomes. We are entering an exciting, positive time of change for the school as we have just moved to academy status with AET Academy Trust.
We are looking to appoint an experienced, qualified teacher of English to join us from January on a maternity cover contract.
We all have differing interests and expertise, which ensures that we offer our students an engaging and exciting curriculum. We are an innovative and energetic team who strive to add value and improve attainment and above all pass on our love of English to our students.
Our school has already made significant progress which can be seen from our increase in results from 26% 5+ A* to C in 2011 to 46% in 2014. We are on a journey to becoming a good and then outstanding school and invite you to join us to achieve our vision.
The successful candidate will be:
- Enthusiastic, energetic and have a love of your subject.
- Able to help drive up standards in learning and teaching
- A team person who will take initiative and get involved in school projects
- Resilient and determined to succeed.
- An excellent, experienced classroom practitioner.
We will offer you:
- An outstanding induction, ongoing support and professional development
- A friendly, supportive and dynamic school team.
- Innovative and creative/risk taking approaches to learning and teaching
We are keen to support your career not only with our school but also across our group of academies. At AET, you will be supported to develop your own skills and have access to a world-class CPD and Talent Management programme. We have a wide range of benefits that include teachers pension, private health cash plan, the Ford Advantage Scheme and childcare vouchers.
Further information can be found on www.hays.co.uk/jobs/FIRTHPARK
To discuss the post and/or request an application form, please contact our recruitment partner, Arthur (Aj) Blyth at Hays Education on 0114 289 6746, email arthur.blyth@hays.com
Visits to the school are welcomed and can be arranged by contacting Aj Blyth.
Firth Park Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to complete a DBS form in line with Section 115 of Police Act 1997.
Firth Park Academy
Fircroft Avenue
Sheffield
S5 0SD
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About Firth Park Academy
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Firth Park Academy is proud to be a Good school and determined to become an Outstanding school. We are a wonderfully diverse family of students and staff where our vision is to inspire all students to lead remarkable lives. We offer the widest range of extra-curricular enrichment possible to ensure our students are rich in knowledge and character. We want students to achieve academic excellence, develop strength of character and above all else, be happy. Our school is:
- A stronger-than-ever ‘Good’ school as rated by Ofsted (March 2019).
- Home of an Extended School Day for Years 7 and 11 to ensure the broadest possible curriculum of academic learning and extra-curricular experience
- Featured on CBBC’s series Our School 3, which highlights the successful transition students make into Year 7.
- A richly diverse community with students speaking more than 30 home languages.
- A leading school in our trust – Academies Enterprise Trust – the largest trust in the UK with more career development opportunities than any other.
We love to help our students learn and value the staff who help them do so, thanks to:
- A real ethos of family where we all value strong positive relationships and support each other.
- An outstanding professional development programme for staff at all stages of their career.
- A ‘3 in 3 years’ leadership development programme for high achieving staff. This promises staff a TLR responsibility, bursary support toward Masters completion if required, and mini-secondment at a partner AET Academy to grow our future leaders.
Dean Jones (Principal)
djones@firthparkacademy.org
WHY JOIN OUR ACADEMY?
Development:
We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences that will support you on your professional learning journey with AET.
Lifestyle:
We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.
Money:
All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme). Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our AET Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.
Wellbeing:
We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.
OUR TRUST
We are proud to be part of Academies Enterprise Trust (AET).
AET is a national family of 57 schools committed to delivering an excellent education that launches all the children in our care into a remarkable life. It is our deeply held belief that every child has something remarkable to offer and we see it as our duty to help each and every child find this within themselves.
Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
At AET, we want all of our employees to feel included bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, and we truly believe that diversity drives innovation.
AET is also an approved Apprenticeship Training Provider (through the ESFA) which allows us to deliver a wide range of apprenticeship programmes across the Trust and our school network. To find out more about what we offer click here.
We also offer teacher training programmes across our network. For more information please click here.
To find out more about AET please click here.
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