Teacher of Science

A recruitment and retention payment will be offered to the successful candidate joining the Trust in this position. 

There are opportunities for the right candidate for subject leadership roles either in the advertised Academy or another Trust Academy

Our School:

Our Ofsted Good (September 2021) academy is looking for an inspirational Lead Practitioner to build on our successes and further enhance the work of the George Eliot Academy and our Trust. Our vision is, “We aim for excellence and improve pupils’ achievement, through an inclusive academic culture based on high aspirations and expectations. Our excellent daily practices embed our culture of kindness, gratitude and hard work; our STAR values and family ethos shape the character of our pupils”. If you share our vision and would like to work in a close knit and family-oriented school, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Brief Job Description:

To teach a given timetable ensuring that individual students meet their personal targets through:

• Planning and delivering high quality lessons
• Managing student behaviour effectively
• Effective marking and feedback
• Setting appropriate homework
• To ensure that the classroom is a safe and secure environment.
• To promote a love of subject and a love of learning with students.
• Assess student progress in line with MAT and academy policies
• To work as a form tutor for a given group of students.

Joining our family of schools:

At the Midland Academies Trust, we protect and promote the mental, physical, intellectual, and emotional health of young people. We do this by ensuring they are safe, happy, and successful, enjoying the very best of what has been thought and said in an environment which builds their capacity to become leaders of the future.

We regard ourselves as a family of schools - our staff work in close collaboration, sharing workload and learning from each other. As a family, we have agreed and common ways of working in many areas, driven by shared values and developed in partnership with our staff.

We are a local Trust - our academies are located a short drive from each other, and we proudly serve the communities of Nuneaton, Hartshill and Earl Shilton, educating over 3000 young people each year. Our staff are the single greatest resource we have in our mission of creating successful futures for all the pupils in our care.

We place high value on subject expertise and continual professional development. This academic year, our teaching staff will receive over 40 hours of subject specific professional development, including a commitment to all staff experiencing instructional coaching. We work hard to reduce staff workload and our academies have been awarded the Fair Workload Charter recognising our innovative work in this area.

This Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS disclosure. Start dates will be conditional upon receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. 

If you are having difficulties with the recruitment platform, please email the school directly on infogea@midlandat.co.uk