Teacher of Business Studies

Affordable shared accommodation available next academic year

At Northolt High School, our vision, mission and values underpin everything that we do. We enable our students to develop strength of character, to be articulate and confident and to secure the best academic outcomes possible. Our school vision is "committed to excellence". This summarises our core aim of continuous improvement. Our mission statement describes how we work to achieve this core aim - through "seizing opportunity, instilling ambition, realising potential". Join us and you will be welcomed by a hard-working, dedicated staff and subject team who are united in their focus on student achievement.  

We work in partnership with an organisation called Sycol which supports us in ensuring that we have clear systems of continuous school improvement in place. Through this partnership, all members of staff in the school are part of a high quality leadership development programme. Termly innovation projects involve every member of staff, helping us quickly and effectively share ideas whilst forging strong partnerships across the staff team. These projects ensure that systemic school improvement is embedded in everything we do. 

We are a small school at the moment and are growing in size in the coming years, with a new building project on the horizon. We maintain a broad and balanced curriculum offer for all students. Our intention is to develop the school so that it has STEAM specialism (the ‘A’ is for Art) whilst at the same time retaining a breadth of curriculum offer for our students. Business Studies is a successful department at our school; we have seen results rapidly improve in recent years. This has led to increased interest from our students in continuing to study with us in the sixth form so we are adding A Level Business Studies to our sixth form curriculum offer from September 2020. Business Studies will join a suite of A Level subjects we offer in our small sixth form. Our post-16 outcomes for progress place us in the top 3% of the country at the moment and we are keen to build on this success. In the future there is the potential for us to broaden our Business Studies curriculum to include some vocational courses in the sixth form, potentially at both Levels 2 and 3.  

We will be the right school for you if you are committed to:

• Ensure outstanding progress and attainment in GCSE and post 16 Business Studies;
• Play a full part in termly innovation projects to contribute to the development of school-  wide continuous improvement;
• Continue to promote the profile of the Business Studies department through  contributions to the wider life of the school.

We can offer you:

• Great support and training as you develop your career;
• The opportunity to innovate and bring in new ideas to contribute towards improving our  school;
• A caring and supportive professional environment, with an early finish every Friday to  promote a good work / life balance;
• A thoughtful and well-structured school calendar with careful attention paid to  balancing teacher workload;
• A commitment to providing high quality opportunities for you to continue your  professional learning;
• A flexible approach to your career, with increasing numbers of our teachers working on  part time contracts.

A Job Description & Person Specification plus an application form can be found on our website:  www.northolthigh.org.uk Please email your application to the Headteacher’s PA at: ​lweeks@northolthigh.org.uk​

During the school closure period we are recruiting by using video conferencing. Candidates  invited to interview will have two interviews with the first one focused on Learning and  Teaching. For each interview, candidates will be asked to prepare in advance and this will  include having the questions emailed to you prior to the interview. Our intention will be to  provide a fair and robust process which seeks to catch you in rather than catching you out!  Further details will be provided on application. If you would like to speak to anyone at the  school informally to find out more about us before an interview, please get in touch and we will  arrange this. You can also find out more about us by looking at our website:  www.northolthigh.org.uk​

Closing date: 9am, Monday 15 June 2020 

Interviews to be held on Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 June 2020 

The school is committed to safeguarding children and safer recruitment processes are always  robustly followed. Successful candidates’ appointment will be subject to safer recruitment  checks and satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check. Further information can be  found at:  https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service/about