Geography Teacher
Outwood Academy Riverside
Middlesbrough
- Expired
- Salary:
- £30,000 – £46,525 (MPS/UPS)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter or September 2024
- Apply by:
- 8 January 2024
Job overview
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and inspiring classroom practitioner with a real passion for Geography. We offer an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and motivated team. Excellent knowledge and an understanding of the subject are essential. You must possess the skills and determination to make a significant difference to the lives of our students and share our single goal of ‘students first’. Applications are invited from both newly qualified and experienced professionals.
Why choose us?
- We invest in you, so you invest in our students!
- A culture of high expectations, where students are safe, responsible and respectful to everyone in our shared community
- Bespoke coaching and mentoring
- An excellent reputation for staff development; free access to a range of subject-specific CPD programmes delivered by outstanding Geography leaders and visiting speakers
- We are passionate about developing outstanding subject specialists who are able to instil a love of learning in their classroom
- A well-resourced curriculum area, which is diverse, exciting and personalised
- A strong enhancement curriculum to support classroom-based learning
- Committed to making climate change and sustainability integral to everything we do
- An opportunity to join a warm, vibrant and ambitious Family of Schools
The successful applicant(s) will initially be given a permanent regional contract for schools in Middlesbrough and Redcar, and then as vacancies arise, discussions with appointees will shape their permanent base. The schools within this region are as follows:
- Outwood Academy Acklam
- Outwood Academy Bydales
- Outwood Academy Redcar
- Outwood Academy Ormesby
- Outwood Academy Normanby
- Outwood Academy Riverside
The right candidate will be able to make a significant difference to the lives of our students and share our single goal of ‘Students First: Raising Standards and Transforming Lives’. We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community who love Geography and have a passion for developing this in others. You could progress quickly across our Family of Schools if that was what you were looking for through leadership or through our Deeps structure, but if you just want to be the best Geography teacher you can be, then we are also the school for you!
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If you require further information, please contact Kate Wilson at k.wilson@outwood.com.
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Closing date: Midday on 8 January 2024.
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Outwood Grange Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
About Outwood Academy Riverside
- Outwood Academy Riverside
- 100 Russell Street
- Middlesbrough
- TS1 2AD
- United Kingdom
Chief Executive Officer: Lee Wilson
Principal: Melissa Brant-Smith
Outwood Academy Riverside is the first Free School within the Outwood Family, and we are delighted to be based in the large, friendly, north-east town of Middlesbrough.
We are a welcoming and supportive academy, with a relentless determination to provide the very best education for every child. We place children at the centre of everything we do, with a focus on creating a culture of success and a positive climate for learning.
Taking a holistic approach to education, valuing vocational, practical, creative, and academic qualities equally and since joining the Outwood Family in 2020 we have been establishing ourselves and helping more and more students.
We believe that learning should be both enjoyable and enriching. We are innovators with a knowledge-rich curriculum, designed to personalise learning for every student, helping them to reach their potential.
We want you to help us grow and to take us to the next level.
The Outwood Family of Schools pride ourselves on fully supporting colleagues within the Family both professionally and personally.
We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff, allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first, raising standards and transforming lives into practice.
As a founding Trust of the National Institute of Education (NIoT), we will actively invest in your future through working closely with the Outwood Institute of Education and NIoT to offer access to a wide range of CPD opportunities, with all teaching staff receiving a minimum of two hours of CPD each week.
We also offer a generous employment package with a whole host of staff benefits, including family friendly policies, enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period, funded CPD for qualifications up to and including Masters level plus other exclusive benefits including a partnership with car leasing company, Synergy.
All academies within the Outwood Family have gained the IQM Inclusive Schools Award with 18 having Centre of Excellence status and one holding Flagship status.
If you share our vision, join our family.
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