Teacher of Health and Social Care

Our opportunity

We are seeking to appoint an ambitious, highly motivated and specialist teacher of Health and Social Care to support our vision to transform the lives of young people in North Sheffield.

We are looking for someone who:

• is an inspirational teacher with a strong occupational background
• has the ambition to develop their career through additional subject leader responsibilities.
• can work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure the success of the department and the sixth form on our journey to ‘Outstanding’.
• can use their expertise and industry experience to deliver a high quality curriculum 
• can develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours of our learners in readiness for their next steps into higher education, training and employment
• has a proven track record of achieving good or outstanding results, though we also welcome applications from ECTs.

Health and Social care is an extremely popular subject within our vocational offer, with high proportions of learners progressing from Level 2 to Level 3 and beyond into higher education and related health careers.

As a subject leader, you will oversee and lead the delivery of health and social care and the early years qualifications, supported closely by a curriculum leader, to ensure that all students are making progress. Core elements to this role are to support teachers in the development of high quality and comprehensive programmes of study, support internal verification/ moderation activities for a cluster of courses and to support the coordination of subject events such as liaison activities, employability, extra-curricular and trips and visits.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the 16-19 setting of a 2-19 multi-academy trust which is committed to raising academic standards and attainment. You will be provided with a programme of professional development that will enable you to continue to develop your craft in a sixth form that is highly focused on staff wellbeing.

We can offer:

• A hardworking department with friendly and supportive colleagues
• An excellent learning environment
• Access to the Teacher’s Pension Scheme
• High quality professional development and support
• Opportunities to work with colleagues across an ambitious and forward-thinking 2-19 Sheffield Trust
• A chance to make a real difference to the lives of young people.
• Various health and wellbeing benefits including a free onsite gym, Wellbeing and Employee Assistant Programme (EAP), employee discount scheme and dedicated staff wellbeing events.

For the right candidate, an additional payment of £2000 and 20% timetable remission is available. For more information about this, please contact for a confidential conversation. 

We welcome contact from anyone considering applying to Longley Park Sixth Form Academy and encourage prospective applicants to visit the academy to meet the team and our committed student body.

All candidates are expected to read our Safeguarding Policy which can be found here

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Want to find out more? To arrange an informal chat please contact Matthew Fieldsend by email MFieldsend@brigantiatrust.net.