Teacher of Business and IT

We are looking for a dynamic, passionate Teacher of Business and IT to join our Vocational and Social Sciences (VocSS) Faculty to help make a positive impact on the young people at our school.

 We are a highly popular faculty with our students, having achieved outcomes that are progressive year on year, for those who choose to study Vocational and Social Science subjects. The VocSS’s Faculty is the largest optional faculty in the school at KS3, KS4 and KS5 and is made up of Vocational, including Computing, IT, Business and Economics and Social Sciences including Sociology, Psychology, Applied Psychology, Criminology, Law and Health and Social Care. We pride ourselves on the fact that our faculty members have real world knowledge and/or experience within their specialist subject.

Our aim to continue to continue to make all subjects within the VocSS Faculty a key choice for students at Key Stage 4 and 5 and welcome the opportunity to extend our team and drive the success of the Faculty.

Our perfect teaching candidate will:

• Be a consistently good to outstanding practitioner
• Be committed to exceptional standards of teaching and learning
• Be able to motivate, challenge and inspire students to achieve their best
• Be able to establish and develop good relationships with students and staff
• Help us to improve progress and outcomes for students
• Contribute to our core vision and values

Core Purpose:   

Ensure that students make positive progress against prior attainment, by ensuring that teaching is consistently of a high quality, progress is monitored, and appropriate measures are taken to address any areas of underachievement.

Responsibilities for all teachers:

• Meet the relevant Teachers’ Standards
• Promote the values and aims of the school
• Follow all relevant school policies
• To be aware of, and assume the appropriate level of responsibility for, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and to report any concerns in accordance with the school’s safeguarding policies
• Create and maintain effective partnerships with parents and carers
• Treat students, parents and colleagues fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect
• To comply with the school’s Health & Safety policy and statutory requirements
• Plan lessons and sequences of lessons, ensuring lessons have pace and variety, that learning is personalised to meet individual learning needs and that teaching caters for the full range of learning styles of students
• Ensure that teaching reflects the diversity of backgrounds of students and promotes mutual respect
• Contribute to regular curriculum review to help maintain a relevant, stimulating and innovative curriculum provision
• Take responsibility for personal continuing professional development to ensure that knowledge and skills are kept up to date with respect to subject(s), pedagogy and curriculum developments plus wider school, local and national issues
• Assess progress of students in line with policy and records to ensure regular feedback and encouragement is given to students to take responsibility for their own learning
• Instigate measures to address the causes of identified underperformance and monitor the effectiveness of those measures
• Submit assessments to the school database, and complete students’ reports for parents’ consultation deadlines in school calendar, ensuring they provide an accurate record of the progress of each individual and meeting high quality standards
• Complete registers to monitor attendance and punctuality and take action to address any issues
• Utilise appropriate behaviour management strategies in lessons in line with school policy
• Participate in lesson observation and other measures to monitor delivery of learning outcomes and quality of teaching and implement measures to address any improvement issues identified
• Participate in the appraisal process, identifying personal professional development priorities which will impact on students’ learning