Teacher of Computer Science & IT - Additional responsibility available for the right candidate.

Contract Start Date: September 2024

We are looking for a dynamic, passionate teacher to join our Vocational and Social Sciences (VocSS) Faculty to teach Computer Science and IT, helping to make a positive impact on the young people at our school.

Additional responsibility available for the right candidate.

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

Our perfect teaching candidate will be:

• Qualified to degree level in a relevant subject.

• Relevant teaching practice and training with the subject area

• Ability to inspire and motivate students.

• Ability to lead and work collaboratively.

• Have excellent interpersonal and organisational skills. 

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, secure good outcomes for all pupils.

·          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.

 Interviews will take place on 16th May 2024.