Lead Practitioner
Gateacre School
Liverpool
- Expired
- Salary:
- (£41,266 - £44,435
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Summer term 2020
- Apply by:
- 21 November 2019
Job overview
If you are a strong science teacher (a Chemist preferred) with a proven track record of delivering good or better GCSE Science exam results then we would love to hear from you.
We are looking a scientist with:
• Teaching talent, with the ability to teach science at KS3, KS4 and KS5
• Drive and ambition to improve student results.
• Evidence of how you have delivered results.
• A personal desire to be the best.
• High expectations to inspire and motivate staff and pupils alike
• The ability to analyse student data and identify appropriate interventions
In return we offer:
• A supportive working environment within a team of highly effective practitioners who already achieve high standards.
• Fantastic students who “behave extremely well in lessons and around the school” and who are “polite and friendly” (Ofsted).
• A supportive and friendly staff
• A great working environment with state of the art facilities
• Excellent opportunities for Continuous Professional Learning
• Discount on Lifestyle Fitness Gyms
• Child care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
About us
We are a forward thinking progressive school with a very successful and rapidly increasing sixth form.
The science team consist of 7 fulltime committed specialists. We deliver GCSE Combined Science Trilogy and separate science GCSE’s as well as A ‘Level Physics and Biology and we are seeking to offer Chemistry in 2020. It is a very supportive team who collaborate regularly to ensure our standards remain high. We look forward to welcoming a new colleague.
As a school we seek to develop honesty, reliability, self esteem and self-discipline. Furthermore we endeavour to encourage a caring attitude, a belief in tolerance and equal opportunity and the ability to work co-operatively within teams.
Potential candidates are invited to visit the school for an informal confidential chat with the Headteacher (Gareth Jones) and the Head of Science Faculty (Dave Gash). To arrange an appointment please call Mr Jones’ P.A. Gina Kane on (0151 363 1111 ext. 200).
Please visit our website for more information: www.gateacre.org
If you require an application pack via email please email Anne Kavanagh, Head of Resources: a.kavanagh@gateacre.org
Closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 22nd November 2019 and interviews will be held on 6th December 2019. Applications should be returned to Anne Kavanagh: a.kavanagh@gateacre.org
The Role of Lead Practitioner Science
The central purpose of this role is to raise achievement in Science. All other aspects are negotiable with the successful candidate. We recognise that the successful candidate will have specific strengths, interests and career aspirations and we are eager to develop these when building a role description.
Gateacre School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.
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About Gateacre School
Gateacre is a very popular school which serves the needs of a large and varied community. We are proud of the quality of personal relationships here and the care that is given to all our students. Successful education is only possible in an environment in which mutual respect and cooperation are key features.
The staff at Gateacre all subscribe to the belief that students appreciate a safe and secure learning environment in which rules are applied fairly and consistently, where students know what is expected of them and where positive behaviours are supported and reinforced. Gateacre is a happy and achieving school and we work hard to maintain a spirit of genuine partnership with parents.
Staff and governors at Gateacre have worked together to produce an agreed set of Aims for the school.
We have also agreed procedures, a code of conduct and a system of rewards and sanctions for our students which assist us in achieving our aims. Underpinning all that we strive for is the ethos of our school - our own characteristic spirit and shared set of beliefs. The school´s ethos determines the atmosphere at Gateacre and the quality of personal relationships within our school.
Our ethos may be summarised by the following beliefs:
- Successful education is based on good relationships between staff and students. Mutual respect and co-operation are central to such relationships.
- Sensitive consideration of students by all staff increases their self-esteem which in turn produces greater achievement.
- All students are individuals with differing social backgrounds, talents, aspirations and needs. Each is entitled to mature and develop within a safe and caring environment so that individual potential may be achieved.
- Individual potential is most likely to be realised when staff always demand high yet realistic standards of effort, behaviour and achievement from their students.
- Students appreciate a disciplined environment in which staff act firmly, fairly and consistently.
- Problems are perfectly normal in a school where children are learning and testing the boundaries of acceptable behaviour. Our success is determined not by the absence of problems but by the collaborative way in which we deal with them.
Gateacre provides a broad and balanced education. The curriculum is designed to ensure that all students have the opportunity to achieve their maximum potential through personalised learning programmes and Gifted and talented provision.
We want each student to develop confidence, self-esteem and a determination to succeed.
At Gateacre expectations for all students are high. Parents/ carers and students can be confident that Gateacre can deliver a high quality education for all young people and their secondary experience will be challenging, successful and fun.
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