Teacher of Mathematics 1 x Permanent, 1 x Fixed-term Contract
Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
Brighton
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- May 2023
- Apply by:
- 17 March 2023
Job overview
Academy: Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
Job Title: Teacher of Mathematics (Fixed-term Contract)
Contract Basis: 1 x Permanent, 1 x Fixed Term-September 2023 - September 2024.
Salary: MPS/UPS
Closing Date: March 2023
Start Date: Easter or September 2023
An opportunity has arisen to join PACA’s maths department. We are looking for teacher's who is passionate about teaching maths to join the supportive and focused team and to add to the energy and enthusiasm we have for maths at PACA.
Over the last five years, the maths team at PACA has achieved consistently high results, reaching or exceeding targets to be in the top 20% of similar schools. The team has collaboratively developed an outstanding curriculum, based on the White Rose curriculum, and drawing on innovations from the Maths Mastery curriculum. Alongside GCSE success the team has successfully run additional maths, and has developed packages to meet the needs of students who struggle to ensure they achieve success with number and measure. With this well-resourced 5 year curriculum, the team has greatly improved our student outcomes and our team’s work-life balance.
Over the same 5 year period, PACA has doubled in size. We are a strong, inclusive community school serving students from across the west of Brighton and West Sussex. Our Good Ofsted report noted: “Pupils and staff agree that, despite the ongoing growth of the school, everyone at PACA is known. … Pupils recognise that staff want the very best for them… This is reflected in calm and purposeful lessons”.
This is an exciting time to join PACA. The Ofsted report sets out a huge range of strengths for the school, and the few areas we are excited to address to take us to a higher level.
The appointee will teach across the school to GCSE level. Our desired candidate will have an interest in children’s learning, a desire to make maths learning interactive and engaging, and the ability to form strong positive relationships with students. Applications from beginning teachers looking for an ECT role are welcome.
Portslade Aldridge Community Academy is an 11-16 state funded Academy. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/ vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
To download the full Job Description and Personal Specification, please click below:
Mainscale Teacher JD and PS PACA.pdf
Other Responsibilities
Operating at all times within the stated policies and practices of Portslade Aldridge Community Academy and the wider Trust.
Abiding by and practicing the Aldridge Education Operating norms:
- We are Aldridge Education
- The standard is excellence
- We champion equality
- We’re in the work together
- We behave with integrity
- We lead by example
- We use time well
Equal Opportunities
- To know and adhere to the Portslade Aldridge Community equal opportunities policy and equalities legislation and implement in relation to job responsibilities in employment and service delivery.
Health and Safety
- To take reasonable care for their own health and safety and any other person(s) who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work, in accordance with the Health & Safety legislation.
- To co-operate with the Portslade Aldridge Community insofar as is necessary to enable it to comply with its duties under relevant health and safety legislation.
Safeguarding Statement:
Aldridge Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Where the role for which you are applying involves engaging in regulated activity, it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
A copy of Aldridge Education’s Child Protection policy is available on our website at www.aldridgeeducation.org
Following successful interview, Aldridge Education will carry out the necessary prohibition checks for all teaching staff, as well as for all candidates undertaking regulated activity.
If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, you will be required to complete a Declaration giving details of any relevant criminal offences and other relevant information relating to our safeguarding duty. Further information will be provided on that form.
Any offer of employment will be made conditional upon a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and barred list check (where applicable to the role in question).
If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, Aldridge Education will undertake online searches (including social media) in accordance with KCSIE 2022.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Attached documents
About Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
- Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
- Chalky Road, Portslade, Brighton
- East Sussex
- BN41 2WS
- United Kingdom
About Portslade Aldridge Community Academy
Welcome to Portslade Aldridge Community Academy (PACA), a thriving 11-16 school rated Good by Ofsted (2016). Our results have been consistently improving for over three years and our Progress 8 score (0.3) is now the second highest in the city. Recognised as Brighton’s Most Improved School in the local media in 2017, our KS3 student intake grew over 80% year on year in 2017, and is set for further significant growth in 2018.
PACA has developed a strong learning culture of “Expert Learner” with students actively engaged in their own progress. High standards are maintained throughout the school with strong outcomes, particularly in the fundamentals of English and maths. We also have excellent outcomes in art and a focus on STEM. The current post-16 offer, a mixture of academic and vocational, is a key development priority through partnership work with local employers, leading organisations and our sister school in the city. Our digital media academy, an exciting collaboration between the two schools and over 40 local companies, is a great example of how these partnerships can deliver for our students.
In common with all Aldridge schools we also have a strong focus on developing the enterprise skills, attributes and confidence that help our students navigate through higher education and the many employment opportunities that will be available to them in the future.
PACA is so much more than a school. We work closely with, and offer our facilities to, the wider community as well as partnering with local primary schools and employers. Those facilities, which have benefitted from an £13m investment since we became an academy, include a STEM centre, Mac suite, specialist dance and art studios, and a community library. Our positive contribution to the community in which we live and work was recognised in winning the Brighton Community School of 2016 Award and the Most Improved School in Brighton & Hove Award 2017.
Aldridge Education
PACA is a member of the Aldridge Education multi-academy trust. We work in different regions across England where the opportunities and prospects for young people are often most limited, and where the introduction of our entrepreneurial approach to education can have most benefit.
We are a values-driven organisation with a commitment to non-selective, inclusive schools, providing children and young people with an exceptional educational experience. Our goal is that, by the age of 25, all Aldridge graduates will have experienced an outstanding and enjoyable education and be able to sustain the life of their choice.
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