Head of Geography

Welcome to Swanwick Hall School, a member of The Two Counties Trust

There are many reasons to choose our school, and the Trust, as a great place to start or develop your career. We recognise the importance of happy, rewarded, and motivated employees and as such we have developed our HR and Professional Learning strategies to invest in people.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within the school, externally, and across the Trust, offering extensive professional learning for all employees.

We have removed appraisal and appraisal related progression, recognising the limitations and changed the focus from proving to improving through professional growth which is focused on individual ambitions, enabling everyone to get a little bit better all the time.

We are committed to your welfare as an employee and alongside our own wellbeing and workload management arrangements we have signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. If you need additional support on a range of matters, an Employee Assistance Programme is available to you from day one of employment.

We offer highly competitive pay, including some points above national rate, an array of employee benefits including extensive high street retail discounts, gym membership and discounted healthcare.

There are an array of centralised systems which are designed to save you time and avoid duplication of effort, these are based on the work of experts across the Trust, meaning that your time can be focused where you need it to be.

We hope you will join us in a great environment where you can work with a team of dedicated and like-minded professionals.

Why choose Swanwick Hall School?

We place a real emphasis on high quality teaching and have undertaken a vast amount of work on developing a high-quality knowledge rich curriculum in all subjects.

Our Swanwick lesson framework is based on strong classroom routines which ensure that all students have a clear understanding of what to expect in the classroom. We believe that ‘structure liberates’ and as a result, with strong structures in place, our staff have the autonomy to deliver lessons which are engaging, interesting and relevant.

We invest significantly in ongoing professional learning within our school and through collaboration with our colleagues in The Two Counties Trust. In partnership with our Trust colleagues, we have introduced our innovation to traditional appraisal which focusses on supporting our staff to fulfill their ambitions for their future. We hold deliberate practice sessions for our teaching staff each week and actively encourage everyone to participate in professional learning and focus on their career ambitions.

We are developing our offer that sits outside of the classroom and have a real focus on building opportunities for students for enrichment, leadership and trips. Learning outside of the classroom is equally as important as inside of the classroom, and we know that these opportunities will help to further instill a real sense of belonging here at Swanwick Hall.

To develop and improve the school further we need to recruit the best people at every opportunity. We are looking for people who are committed to enhancing the life choices of Swanwick Hall students and who can join our warm, hard-working and ambitious team.

If you haven’t already, I recommend that you visit the school and see us in action. We are always happy to meet prospective applicants and to talk openly and honestly about the school and the post on offer.

Emma Howard

Headteacher

The Two Counties Trust

With secondary schools across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, we are an ambitious Trust with a strong reputation. We have nine secondary schools, over 11,000 students and 1,500 employees.

We exist to provide our students with opportunities and experiences to enhance their life choices, making a positive contribution to the world we share. Collectively we serve our communities by educating and preparing our students for the next steps in their lives.

Leaders across the Trust are fully committed to striving for excellence in all that we do. We understand that families trust us each day with their most prized possession i.e their child, and we all are here to serve the students in our care.

Our values are:

Ambition:   We maximise our potential through striving for excellence.

Teamwork: We give 100% effort, displaying kindness and humility for the benefit of all.

Honesty:    We are respectfully open about our successes and areas for growth.

To find out more about us, please go to The Two Counties Trust website.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Trust in the near future.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note that it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a children's barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates to identify incidents or issues that may have happened, and which are publicly available online, which we may need to explore with shortlisted candidates.

The school's child protection policy can be located at: www.SwanwickHall.ttct.co.uk/our-school/policies.

The Trust's policy on the employment of ex-offenders can be located at: www.ttct.co.uk/our-trust/policies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and as such we are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Candidates with a disability who meet the minimum job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.