Alternative Pathway Teacher
Grace College
Gateshead
- £31,650 - £43,606 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- £31,650 – £43,606 (MPS 1 – MPS 6)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 28th April or September 2025
- Apply by:
- 7 April 2025
Job overview
Grace College is a place of boundless potential, and we are seeking to recruit two skilled and passionate tutors who will help to ensure that when students require an alternative pathway to remain part of our school community, they are provided with bespoke tuition in Maths, English and Personal Development.
As a tutor, you will report directly to the Assistant Vice Principal: Student Support. Each student who accesses tutoring will have two sessions (either AM or PM) in a bespoke centre on the school site where their tutor will facilitate their learning in Maths, English and Personal Development.
In this role, you will plan and implement bespoke learning in Maths, English and Personal Development for Key Stage 3 and 4 students in small groups. This will involve:
- Liaising with Heads of Department (Maths, English and Personal Development) to plan and implement lessons that ensure students are broadly following the curriculum that their peers are following, creatively adapting resources to meet the needs of students who are accessing tutoring
- Delivering literacy-based learning to support students who are reading and writing below age-related expectations to support their learning in the centre or complete at home
- Regularly setting appropriate targets for each student, assessing students’ work and reporting on student progress and attainment, with reference to EHCPs and student profiles; preparing reports and participating in reviews where necessary
You will establish a stable, caring and supportive learning environment which enables students to grow in character, including:
- Ensuring that the routines within the classroom and spaces in the provision are effective and supporting students to increasingly adhere to these routines
- Ensuring that during each lesson or activity planned, students are supported to manage their own conduct when they are dysregulated by following their personalised learning plans so that students who have experienced trauma, loss, rejection and other barriers to education can engage, learn, grow, heal and succeed
- Ensuring that students increasingly take responsibility for themselves, supporting them to take account of their conduct when something has gone wrong and introducing systems that recognise and celebrate good conduct
As an 11–19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our strong Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide an outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.
Join us, and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
- Defined benefit pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Daily lunch allowance
- Free parking
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- Employee-centred and family-friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
- Cycle scheme
- Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
For further information and to apply, please click here.
Closing date: 9.00am on 7th April 2025.
Interview date: 10th April 2025.
Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement, which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.
About Grace College
Grace College is an 11-19 secondary school serving over 1200 students in central Gateshead. The school is committed to creating an outstanding learning community where students excel in their academic, cultural, co-curricular and personal lives. The College joined the Emmanuel Schools Foundation (ESF) in April 2019 as the fifth school providing a holistic education focused on developing character in and beyond the classroom. ESF seeks to: provide and support schools in which students and staff have the opportunity to work hard to achieve their personal best; encourage personal, moral and spiritual development within a Christian framework and create and sustain educational environments where everyone is equally valued.
Our schools are committed to assisting economic regeneration and prosperity in the north-east, and to improve the quality of community life through our work with young people. We aspire to impart wisdom to the next generation by educating young men and women in a school culture which prioritises the pursuit of knowledge and the development of character. We serve communities of students, staff and parents who hold many different religious and ideological positions who unite around our core beliefs and core values, which are underpinned by our Christian ethos.
We value academic excellence, but we hold personal best to be of far greater importance. It is our experience that by developing a strong work ethic, holding a growth rather than fixed mind-set, and being provided with outstanding tuition, students may go on to achieve considerably more than they might have imagined possible. We seek to be intentional about character education, our aim being that our students will, in the future, become servant-hearted leaders. Students starting here encounter consistent rules, role models and traditions, which help them feel part of the college community and to begin to take responsibility for others. As students grow older we expect more of them and in the Sixth Form expect our students to take on at least one formal leadership role in the college as well as beginning to serve in the wider community.
Our hope is that all students leave the college as well-rounded, qualified individuals who are able to articulate a viewpoint and back it up with substantial knowledge and understanding. Students are encouraged to achieve academic excellence to access first-rate employment opportunities or to gain access to outstanding universities across the country.
Grace College provides opportunities for colleagues to collaborate and develop professionally with others across ESF. We are committed to an extensive, high quality programme of professional development and to opportunities for career progression. Working within ESF provides an ideal opportunity for ambitious educators who aspire to future senior leadership and will benefit from input through our National Teaching School designation.
If you share our passion for excellence and would like to find out more then please contact us to make arrangements to visit the school.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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