Lead Teacher of RE

Lead Teacher of RE

Location: Sheffield

Salary: Teacher scale up to £42,920 + £4,482 TLR2

Closing date: Monday 4 July 2022 at 9am

Interviews: TBC

About the role:

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, enthusiastic and influential Lead for the RE Department, some experience of teaching Business or Social Science would be an advantage, from September 2022. RE is an established subject within Key Stage 3 with plans to begin in Key Stage 4 developing eventually to Key Stage 5. This is an exciting time to join the academy under new leadership and help establish us as the best school in Sheffield and create Sheffield’s influential young leaders of tomorrow. Our core value are ambition, knowledge and determination and we are looking for someone who shares and embodies these values.

We are looking for someone who can provide outstanding leadership or quickly develop as an outstanding leader to ensure that learning and progress in RE continues on an upward trajectory. This role would suit someone who is looking to make the step into middle leadership or who is looking to build upon their current experience and success at that level. They must have high expectations for our students’ achievement and be relentless in the pursuit of excellence along with possessing the motivational qualities needed as a leader to bring students and staff with them. The role would suit an ambitious and hardworking individual who aspires to make rapid impact and progress to senior leadership in the coming years.

We will only consider candidates who can evidence a strong track record of success working with students in a similar context, be that at classroom teacher, head of year or head or department level and who have made a significant impact on the lives and education of the children they teach. This will need to be demonstrated in your application and be clearly evident at interview.

What we can offer you:

• An academy making rapid, sustained improvement.
• Excellent facilities and resources.
• Access to an outstanding professional development program.
• 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’ teacher with strong leadership qualities who can evidence significant progress and attainment from their students over a protracted period of time.
• 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 resilient, dynamic and passionate about improving the life chances of all children in our community but also displays humility and a reflective approach to improvement.

If you possess these qualities and share the academy’s vision, then we will be delighted to hear from you. Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further information.

About the School:

• A United Learning Academy.
• We are an ambitious Academy with a focus on continuous improvement, OFSTED rated the academy ‘Good’ in every aspect of our provision during the Inspection in January 2020, ensuring that each and every student is supported and encouraged to achieve their very best.
• There are high expectations for behaviour and learning established resulting in a calm and purposeful environment.

Sheffield Park 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.

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

United Learning

Sheffield Park 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.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.

For a confidential discussion about this role, please contact:

HR@unitedlearningyorks.org.uk

To Apply

Please apply online by clicking on the following link: https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/2714892?cid=1567&rsid=0&js=0&LinkType=1&FromSearch=False

Where teaching is better shared

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