History Teacher

Sheffield Springs Academy is part of united Learning, a large and growing group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. Schools within United Learning work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. By collecting expertise and combining resources, we help to make the tough job of teaching a little easier. With a shared curriculum and lesson plans from around the group available to all, our teachers have strong foundations to lead the engaging, rounded education our children deserve.

Our intranet site, United Hub, is just one example of how we share this resource and communicate across sites, helping to simplify processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. We reward our staff: with wide career opportunities – between Primary and Secondary, Academy and Independent – better pay, benefits, and ultimately the satisfaction of helping every child at each of our schools to succeed and reach their full potential.

About the role:

Sheffield Springs Academy is seeking to appoint a dynamic, enthusiastic and influential Teacher of History to teach Key stages 3 and 4 to a high standard in our humanities department.

We are looking to appoint an equally outstanding practitioner to join our exceptional team.

What we can offer you:

• Sheffield Springs academy provides a safe, rigorous and challenging learning environment for students of all abilities and backgrounds
• Our expectations are high in terms of student progress and achievement and behaviour
• Access to an outstanding professional development programme
• A chance to become part of one of the largest groups of academies in the country.
• Caring, dedicated and friendly students who want to learn and fulfil their potential.
• Colleagues who are supportive, friendly and who are committed to each other’s professional development.
• Opportunities to be creative and to inspire your students.

In return, we are looking for:

• An ‘outstanding’ experienced teacher or a less experienced teacher with the potential to be consistently outstanding within a short timeframe.
• Someone who shares our moral purpose of ensuring that all of our young people receive the best education possible in a supportive environment from people who care about them.
• Someone who is passionate about History and who will inspire our students to be so as well.

Please see the job description and person specification for further information contact: enquiries@sheffieldsprings.org.

To apply, please click https://www.networxrecruitment.com/Jobs/Advert/675713?rsid=0&js=0&FromSearch=False

Closing date: 5th May 2017

Sheffield Springs Academy is committed to safeguarding the welfare of its students and the successful appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Sheffield Springs Academy is situated within 10 minutes of major transport links in the city. We opened a new £30 million, purpose built school in 2008 with excellent, state of the art facilities and where faculties are based in suites of traditional classrooms equipped with modern technology.

Where teaching is better shared.

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