Teacher of English
Cardinal Griffin Catholic College
Staffordshire
- £25,714 - £41,604 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2022
- Apply by:
- 23 May 2022
Job overview
Teacher of English
The rate of pay will be Main Pay Scale / Upper Pay Scale
A vacancy for a Teacher of English has arisen at Cardinal Griffin Catholic College. Governors are therefore seeking applications from suitable applicants to join us in September 2022.
The teaching of English at Cardinal Griffin Catholic College is at an exciting stage of its development. Standards continue to rise year on year, departmental leadership is strong, there is a committed team of teachers and the curriculum has been adapted to suit the pupils' needs.
The successful candidate will:
• Be innovative, able to inspire and should set high standards of teaching and learning
• Have excellent subject knowledge and strong teaching skills
• Be fully supportive of the Catholic Ethos and Jesuit Identity of the College
• Ambitious, positive, highly professional
• Absolutely committed to ensuring that students achieve great outcomes and enjoy English
In return candidates can expect:
• Supportive and hardworking colleagues committed to going the extra mile for pupils
• Training, development and support appropriate to their career stage in a College committed to the Education Well-being Charter.
• To be part of a College with a strong Catholic ethos and well-behaved pupils
• Support for both new teachers and those at different career stages is excellent as are opportunities to grow develop and progress
It is important that the successful candidate is a good fit in our team of staff, and so they may be highly experienced or just starting out on their teaching journey, what matters to us is their passion for teaching, strength as a classroom practitioner and love of their subject area.
ECT’s who can demonstrate the potential to be outstanding teachers are encouraged to apply.
The College encourages applications from those of the Catholic faith, but it is not a barrier to appointment if candidates do not have that faith background provided they support the ethos of the College. We are extremely proud of our ethos which comes in very large part from our Jesuit Associate School membership and Catholic Diocesan heritage. This teaches us to be grateful for the gift of teaching that we have and to be generous in using it for the good of our pupils.
Closing date for applications is 9am, 23rd May 2022. No CV or agency applications will be accepted.
The College reserves the right to close this post prior to the published deadline should it receive sufficient applications. We therefore encourage candidates to submit early applications.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings cautions and convictions in your application form.
Where the role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, candidates should note that it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
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About Cardinal Griffin Catholic College
- Cardinal Griffin Catholic College
- Cardinal Way, Stafford Road, Cannock
- Staffordshire
- WS11 4AW
- United Kingdom
Cardinal Griffin Catholic College is an 11-19 Voluntary Aided Catholic Secondary school in Cannock, Staffordshire. The College was originally established in 1960, and has grown in size (with the associated additional building work) considerably since then. Sixth Form numbers have risen significantly in the last 12 months following a concerted effort to increase the numbers by the College Leadership. The College currently has 877 students on roll, of whom, 126 are in the Sixth Form.
The College has 5 Catholic feeder primary schools, whose students make up 45% of the student body. The rest of the students tend to be more local to the College and come from a variety of local schools. The Sixth Form predominantly recruits students from our own Year 11, but we have a handful of external applications each year, which we welcome. Sixth form provision also benefits from both a partnership with Cannock Chase High School with whom we share some courses and a partnership with a local hair salon who support the delivery of Levels 2 and 3 hairdressing qualifications. The College operates its own subsidised transport to bring in students from our Catholic feeder schools and wider catchment area.
The College has strong collaborative partnerships with local Catholic schools, a local Anglican school, as well other schools including the wider network of Jesuit schools throughout the UK and Internationally. Jesuit principles have become an integral part of the College in particular our experience of Magis - a Jesuit term referring to the philosophy of doing more for Christ, and therefore doing more for others. This challenges to always think about how we can ‘go the extra mile’ for our pupils, which is encapsulated in our school prayer, ‘Lord, teach me to be generous.”
The College’s last OfSTED in 2018 rated the College “Good” overall and “Good” in all areas. The latest Section 48 also rated the College as “Good”. Interim monitoring reports from Staffordshire Local Authority indicate that the College remains on track to retain its “Good” rating at the next inspection and results have risen considerably since a dip in 2019 with very positive results in summer 2022.
The College has worked hard to recruit and retain high quality staff. The team of teaching and support staff is stable, friendly and committed to the aims of the College and its Catholic mission. The College has become a hub for training Early Career Teachers this year with 9 joining us in September 2021. We have embraced the Government’s wellbeing charter and have a collaborative and distributed leadership approach.
The College has an Astroturf pitch which operates outside College hours to generate income, providing facilities for community teams. The College is also fortunate to have significant school grounds which facilitate a range of sports taking place and provide good socialisation space for pupils during breaktimes. The building itself is predominantly 1960s, but has been well maintained.
As part of the Archdiocesan academisation strategy, the College is in the early stages of considering becoming part of a Multi-Academy Trust.
View Cardinal Griffin Catholic High School’s latest Ofsted report
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