Establishment: Flixton Girls School Location: Flixton - Urmston - Trafford Salary: £31,650.00 - £43,607.00 Department: Teaching Job Type: Full Time Key Stage: Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
Closing Date: 18/03/2025 12:00 Interview Date: 31/03/2025 Start Date: 01/09/2025
Contract Type: Permanent Contract Term: AYR - All year round Hours per Week: 27.50 Weeks per Year: 39 Pay Grade: Main | M1 - M6
The Role
Flixton Girls School is the tenth school, and the first secondary school, to become a member of Vantage CE Academies Trust. At FGS we inspire students to discover their talents and fulfil their potential through our founding principles of aspiration, empowerment and excellence. These principles are at the heart of life at FGS, ensuring that each individual is able to achieve their personal best. Exceptional opportunities encourage students of all abilities, interests and aptitudes to develop their individual characters and talents and to fulfil their dreams and aspirations.
Flixton Girls School are looking to appoint a Teacher of Art & Textiles. Required from 1st September 2025.
Are you looking for a career where you can motivate and inspire?
… a role where you can use your skills to make a positive impact in young people’s lives?
… a role where no day is the same and you can indulge your subject interests as part of your work?
The value of teachers in our society has never been higher. We are very proud to be part of this vital profession and are offering the chance for adaptable and driven professionals to join us in our mission.
What Can Vantage Offer You?
* A secure and reliable public sector career, in diverse and inclusive schools with opportunities for progression across our three regional hubs.
* A strong focus on staff well-being, through our employee package, with a full complement of health-related services to support you in your role.
* Access to comprehensive Vantage Plus employee benefits, designed by staff, for staff, including an annual flexi wellbeing day and medical cash plans.
* A robust, tailored CPD programme, further enhanced by our trust training bursary which all staff can apply to.
* Opportunities for career progression and secondment across Vantage Academy Trust’s nine primary schools, one secondary school and local partners.
* Friendly, committed and highly skilled colleagues and leadership, dedicated to our mission, vision and values.
* The opportunity to share views and feedback with leadership through our extensive governance framework and staff voice surveys.
At Vantage CE Academies Trust, we are very proud of our values-led ethos:
* Fostering a culture of professional development
* Developing centres of excellence
* Encouraging our individual spiritual journeys
* Developing future and aspirational thinking
* Celebrating individual distinctiveness and our particular vocation to the least advantaged
* Refusing to set a limit on what is possible for ourselves, for one another, and for our community of schools.
Join us now on our journey to make a difference.
What do I need to bring to the role?
* Will hold Qualified Teacher Status
* Will hold a relevant good honours degree
* Will be an excellent classroom practitioner with high expectations of students’ achievements, attainment and behaviour.
* Will be able to motivate, inspire and co-operate with their colleagues and students.
* Will support the Leadership Team in implementing the vision of the school
* Is reflective, willing to embrace new ideas and take risks in the pursuit of excellence.
* Is an adaptable and resilient professional
* Have bags of personality and enthusiasm
* Be highly motivated, with a can-do attitude
* Love working with and helping young people to achieve their goals
If you think this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
Applications welcome from ECTs and experienced teachers. (MPS & UPS)
Appointments made are subject to an enhanced DBS check, suitable references being received and social media checks being carried out. References will be requested prior to interview.
Qualifications
* QTS Essential
* Degree in related subject specialism Desirable
* Evidence of continuous professional Development Essential
Skills
* Strong leader in the delivery of excellence in teaching and learning Essential
* Ability to instill a strong sense of belief and accountability in both staff and students Essential
* Focused on standards and positive outcomes Essential
* Adaptable - ability to adapt style to a variety of situations and people Essential
Personal Attributes
* Dedicated Essential
* Focused Essential
* Integrity Essential
* Great teamworking Essential
Experience
* Ability to teach ‘outstanding’ lessons Essential
* Proven success of improving student outcomes within a school Essential
* Teaching experience with the age range Essential
* Experience of using a range of technologies to support student learning Essential
* Ability to use their own initiative and have a positive attitude towards the school ethos as well as be adaptable in situations Essential
* Excellent communication skills with children, staff, parents and the wider community Essential
Personal Qualities
* A proven track record of good attendance Essential
* A strong commitment supporting children’s learning and good behaviour Essential
* Ability to work under supervision, as a member of a team and individually Essential
Abilities, Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to work strategically and to seek and implement creative solutions Essential
* Highly effective organisational skills Essential
* Ability to prioritise effectively and meet deadlines during times of pressure Essential
* Ability to develop a number of curriculum areas relevant to the age and ability of the groups Essential
* Ability to assess and record the progress of students’ learning Essential
* Ability to use/analyse assessment data systems to raise standards Essential
* Ability to promote a positive ethos and attributes Essential
* Ability to create a stimulating and safe learning environment Essential
* Knowledge of National Curriculum requirements Essential
* Knowledge of a creative range of pedagogic approaches to delivering your subject Essential
* Knowledge of current education legislation, Ofsted framework and best practice Essential
Qualifications and Training
* Qualified teacher status (or pending). Potential NQTs welcome. Essential
Vantage Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references. Vantage Academies Trust is also committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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Flixton Road
Flixton
Urmston
Manchester
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