Assistant Teacher
The Reach Free School
Hertfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- £17,600
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 1 June 2017
Job overview
Assistant Teacher (Year 7)
Dates: Apply by Friday 2nd June, starting September 2017
Location: Rickmansworth
Contract type: Full Time (8.00am - 4.30pm Monday to Friday)
39 teaching term weeks plus 2 weeks in holidays
Contract term: Permanent
Salary £17,600 per annum
The Reach Free School is looking to appoint a talented, supportive, adaptable individual to either support a Year 7 class across the curriculum, or support targeted pupils in other year groups across a number of subjects. The role also involves:
· Offering extra-curricular activities as part of our integrated programme
· Promoting reading for pleasure
· Covering for colleagues in their absence
The role would suit a candidate with experience of working in a supportive role in a school environment, or a graduate seeking experience of such an environment prior to embarking on a programme to gain qualified teacher status.
In return we will offer you:
· A happy and supportive working environment with high expectations and standards
· Opportunities to develop a broad range of skills in a vibrant and evolving environment
· Opportunities to progress to a career in teaching via the Schools Direct programme where viable
· A BUPA cash plan to contribute to medical care
The Reach Free School is a successful and rapidly growing secondary Free School, which opened in September 2013. The over-subscribed school is a popular choice for local families and is looking for staff to join from September 2017. From 2018, the school will be moving to a brand new purpose built building right in the heart of the community that it serves.
If the challenges of working to develop a new, local school appeal to you, then we would like to hear from you.
Further information, including how to apply, is available from our website: www.thereachfreeschool.co.uk
Potential candidates are encouraged to contact The Reach Free School with any questions on 01923 224764 or email sberman@reachfree.co.uk
Closing date for applications: Friday 2nd June 2017
Interviews to take place: June 2017
The Reach Free School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and expects all staff to share this commitment. In accordance with our Child Protection Policy we are unable to process applications without a fully completed application form. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as 'spent' must be declared when applying. The applicant may post such a declaration in an envelope marked 'Private & confidential for the Headteacher’. The successful applicant must obtain DBS clearance at enhanced level.
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About The Reach Free School
The Reach Free School is an 11- to 18-year-old school in Rickmansworth that serves pupils of all backgrounds and abilities. It was opened in September 2013 by teachers and local parents in response to a significant demand for more secondary school places in the area.
All involved with the school have high aspirations for our pupils and high expectations of them. As such, we expect all pupils to:
- Commit their best efforts to all that they do
- Support each other to achieve their potential
- Work with their teachers to exceed their goals
- Demonstrate exemplary behaviour in all that they do
- Take pride in their school and its community within its walls and beyond
- Enjoy learning
The Reach Free School plays an active role in the community, working with local businesses, supporting local events and providing a hub for local services. Pupils are involved in the school’s wider responsibilities, developing leadership and decision-making skills, communication and collaboration and independent, self-led learning.
A sense of purpose and responsibility pervades lessons and activities at The Reach Free School, and our pupils recognise their responsibilities as members of the community. This underpins The Reach Free School’s ethos; Achievement, Community, Enjoyment – ACE.
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