Teacher of Health & Social Care & Children’s Play Learning and Development To include Childcare and Education
Burntwood - An Academy for Girls
Wandsworth
- Expired
- Salary:
- Teachers' Pay Scale (Inner London)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 20 May 2021
Job overview
Teacher of Health & Social Care & Children’s Play Learning and Development
To include Childcare and Education
Teachers’ Pay Scale (Inner London)
Commencing September 2021
The Principal invites applications from a well-qualified teacher, enthusiastic, well-organised, highly motivated and committed teacher with the ability to teach vocational courses to join our supportive and successful Social Science and Enterprise Cluster. We are a growing Cluster with very successful recruitment of students to our subjects. We currently teach Health and Social Care to KS4 and KS5 students and Children’s Play Learning and Development at KS5. From September 2022 we will also begin our new T Level course in Childcare and Education (Early Years Educator Specialism).
The Social Science and Enterprise Cluster comprises, Psychology, Sociology, Business, Economics, Health and Social Care and Children’s Play, Learning and Development and will include T Level in Education and Childcare. We are predominately sixth form based which enables us to share cross curricular ideas for teaching and learning.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and flexible teacher who is able to utilise their pedagogical skills across these vocational subjects.
The Successful candidate will
• be QTS qualified by the start date;
• have some experience of vocational teaching and marking
• be prepared to teach Level 1/2 Health and Social care BTEC tech award at KS4
• be prepared to teach Level 3 BTEC Health and Social Care and Children’s Play Learning and Development at KS5
• be interested in a teaching vocational curriculum
• be enthusiastic and well organised;
• be able to motivate and inspire students;
• be committed to working in a team;
• have a commitment to their own personal development.
Burntwood is a popular, highly successful, multi-cultural school. We put equality, safeguarding and inclusion at the heart of our ethos. Burntwood has a strong corporate identity characterised by our firm commitment to the UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check.
For further details and a Burntwood School application form, please visit our website:
www.burntwoodschool.com (staff / current vacancies)
or contact the school by email: recruitment@burntwoodschool.com
Completed applications should be returned to Burntwood School either by email or post.
Closing date for applications is Thursday, 20 May 2021 at 13:00.
If you have not been called for interview by Monday, 24 2021, you should assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
About Burntwood - An Academy for Girls
Burntwood is a highly successful academy for girls. We are an 11-19 comprehensive school with 1800 students, of whom 400 are in our mixed Sixth Form. Many of our students progress to our Sixth Form and the vast majority then on to university and higher education.
Burntwood was rated as “Good” by OFSTED at our last Inspection in May 2016 and we are very proud to be one of only two secondary schools in London (and one of only 16 secondary schools in the United Kingdom) to have been awarded the highest level of the UNICEF Rights Respecting School Award: Level 2. We also have Artsmark Gold, Sportsmark and Healthy Schools status.
We work closely with Imperial College and other higher education providers to offer CPD for a variety of primary and secondary schools, and have been awarded the Professional Development Gold Quality Mark by the Institute of Education to reflect our commitment to developing staff professionally.
At Burntwood, staff work in a harmonious atmosphere with students who get on well together and happily respect each other’s cultural backgrounds. They openly acknowledge and celebrate their different abilities and talents. Students enjoy a wide range of extra-curricular activities including choir, orchestra, shows and sporting activities.
Burntwood has recently been rebuilt and we are proud of our new state of the art learning environment which is fully equipped to enable us to continue to deliver an excellent education to our students and the wider community. The quality of the design of the School led to it winning the prestigious Stirling Prize for 2015.
As a member of Burntwood’s staff you would join a team of dynamic and committed professionals.
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