Teacher of RE

Teacher of RE

Job reference: REQ000934

Salary: £32,850 - £48,050 per annum

Contractual hours: 37.5

Basis: Full Time

Region: Swindon

Contract term: Permanent

Start date: September 2024

Job description

Are you looking to improve the life chances of pupils?

Do you want to work in a top performing school?

An Exciting Opportunity to join Swindon Academy. We are looking to appoint a highly motivated and ambitious colleague to teach RE. You will be part of our Social Sciences Faculty, which is led by our Director of Teaching and Learning.

We are an OFSTED good rated all-through academy (3-18) and part of the country’s largest Multi Academy Trust, United Learning. With a progress 8 score of 0.45 in 2023, we have been the top Secondary school in Swindon for GCSE progress since 2016 and we became the top school for attainment in Swindon for GCSE in 2022.

We believe that it is our mission to ensure that all pupils can flourish both academically and personally in an aspirational and supportive environment so that they go on to live happy and fulfilling lives in the future. We pride ourselves on having the highest of expectations of everyone, both students and staff, and passionate about building a strong staff team who work together to drive success for our pupils. We are committed to providing a world-class education that improves the life chances of students, at whatever stage of learning, where hard work, kindness and responsibility are our shared values.

Located in the North of Swindon, we are within commuting distance of Bristol, Bath, Oxford and Reading and the beautiful surrounding Cotswolds Hills. The school boasts superb facilities, a spectacular building and a genuine commitment to ensuring that the Academy is a great place for pupils to come and learn and staff to come and teach.

We are looking to appoint someone who:

• is aligned to our school’s vision and values. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here. Our culture is outlined in our Swindon Academy Way document attached to the advert.
• is truly committed to making a difference to the life-chances of students and believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs.
• is a well-qualified, excellent teacher and who demonstrates a passion for their subject, for learning and has the highest of expectations in the classroom.
• is committed to their own professional development and continuous improvement.
• has energy and demonstrates commitment to all aspects of school life.
• can demonstrate excellent organisational and inter-personal skills and the ability to work as a team.

Swindon Academy can offer you:

• the opportunity to work in the best school in Swindon.
• an exceptional salary, above the maintained sector by 5% on average.
• a strong whole-school team of hardworking, supportive and friendly colleagues.
• a culture and ethos of sky-high expectations.
• a rigorous whole-school behaviour system that allows teachers and pupils to benefit from disruption-free learning.
• a fully resourced curriculum with centralised, shared units of work and resources.
• whole-class feedback marking policies and retrieval practice strategies aimed at supporting the work-life balance of teachers.
• a dedicated team of non-teaching pastoral and SEN staff who work with teachers to support pupils.
• a research driven (no fad) in-house professional development program utilising best practice and evidence-based teaching and learning initiatives.
• a coaching culture, where every teacher is supported to develop professionally.
• access to the best professional development bespoke to all levels of leadership.
• a ‘hands-on’ and committed Senior Leadership Team, completely determined to create an environment in which teachers can get on with their core role: delivering excellent lessons.
• huge personal satisfaction in your work as a teacher.

If you are looking for the next step in your career, and would like to find out more, please email Karen Wright at karen.wright@swindon-academy.org - Principal. She will arrange a visit to the Academy or an informal call to talk about the role.

Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy early in light of a large response.

Due to the high volume of applications received, the School is unable to provide individual feedback on why an application is unsuccessful. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

United Learning

At Swindon Academy, we pride ourselves on a team of staff who are supportive, friendly, and dedicated to providing the very best teaching and learning for our students. Staff across the academy set a culture of high expectations and continuous improvement for students which, in turn, is reflected in the emphasis we place on continuing professional development (CPD) for our staff.

We have made significant, sustained progress at GCSE and are proud to be the top performing school in Swindon for progress over the last six years. Swindon Academy was the first all-though academy to open in the UK and has over 1,900 pupils from the age of 2 to 19.

The school is situated in purpose-built £25 million premises, benefiting from excellent, state-of-the-art facilities, and situated within the beautiful county of Wiltshire, within commuting distance for Bristol, Bath and Oxford. United Learning is a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Swindon Academy is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resources, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

To Apply

Please apply online by clicking on the following link: https://ce0374li.webitrent.com/ce0374li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=4614809C2D

Where teaching is better shared

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