About Harris Rainham Sixth Form
Harris Rainham Sixth Form is a new sixth form serving the community of Rainham and Wennington. We are a dedicated group of staff who are deeply committed to serving our community and ensuring our students are on the path to the best universities and careers. Our core values of Curiosity, Compassion, and Commitment guide everything we do.
What sets us apart:
* We put our values into practice every day, not just as a slogan.
* We deliver a knowledge-rich curriculum tailored to meet the needs of our students, with electives, guilds, and co-curricular programs that go beyond subject specifications.
* Our leaders lead by example, admit mistakes, welcome opinions, and foster honest conversations.
* We are a standalone sixth form working closely with Harris Academy Rainham, an 11–16 Academy. This gives us the strengths of an 11-18 school and the benefits of a sixth form only environment.
* We are a team united against educational disadvantage, determined to show our students the world beyond Havering.
What we offer you:
* Great career progression within our academy and the federation.
* Excellent professional development opportunities focused on the latest educational thinking and research.
* Meaningful measures to manage workload – no graded observations, early finish on Friday, no onerous marking requirements but sensible feedback policies.
* Bespoke support and line management from excellent leaders across the school.
* Opportunities for fantastic professional growth due to our close working relationship with Harris Academy Rainham and other academies across the federation.
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Main Areas of Responsibility
The purpose of your role will be:
* To implement and deliver a broad, balanced, relevant, and differentiated curriculum for students, supporting a designated curriculum area as appropriate.
* To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher/form tutor.
* To facilitate and encourage a learning experience providing students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
* To contribute to raising standards of student attainment.
* To share and support the academy's responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
Your main areas of responsibility will fall under the areas of:
* Operational and strategic planning (including lesson planning, developing resources and syllabuses, and contributing to the departmental plan).
* Curriculum planning.
* Staff development (including continuing professional development and engaging fully in the Performance Management Review process).
* Quality assurance (including contributing to the process of monitoring and evaluating the subject area).
* Management of information (including maintaining appropriate records and tracking student progress).
* Communications with students, parents, and other stakeholders.
* Pastoral system (including being a form tutor to a selected group of students).
* Teaching, ensuring a high-quality learning experience for students.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will:
* Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree.
* Have successful teaching experience at secondary level (can be teaching practice), ideally including experience in multi-ethnic urban schools and of working in an 11-18 school.
* Understand the theory and practice of effective teaching and learning.
* Understand the importance of high expectations and equality of access for all students, and of being a tutor.
* Have knowledge of National Curriculum requirements at KS3 and KS4, and of writing lesson plans, developing resources, and assessing students' work.
* Be able to work as part of a team and to develop and maintain positive relationships with all staff.
* Have a good level of ICT skills, ideally including innovative use of interactive whiteboards.
* Be able to create a motivating and safe learning environment for all students.
* Be able to communicate positively with parents, carers, and other external agencies where necessary.
* Have good written and spoken communication skills.
* Be able to lead and manage their own work effectively.
* Have excellent time management skills.
* Be able to motivate students and raise their aspirations through a range of strategies.
Professional Development & Benefits
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, and many other benefits.