What skills and experience we're looking for
Applicants should be:
• Have experience of teaching across the key stages. Applications from Upper Key Stage 2 teachers are welcome
• Be a consistently good/outstanding teacher
• Be an exceptional classroom practitioner with high expectations of both learning and behaviour
• Demonstrate an ability to inspire, motivate and enthuse pupils
• Be committed to raising standards for all and share the same drive to constantly learn and improve
• Show willingness to lead initiatives and show evidence of impact.
• Demonstrate a passion to make a difference to others
• Be proficient with the use of technology for learning and have a willingness to innovate.
What the school offers its staff
The Academy
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to be part of a team delivering our KS3 competency-based curriculum at Shireland Biomedical UTC.
• At Shireland Biomedical we are committed to an inclusive education for local students at every ability level, a rigorous grounding in academic fundamentals and equipping students for the future through teaching them relevant and cutting-edge skills for the era in which they live.
• That every student should be safe, happy ambitious of themselves and respectful of all.
• To ensure the students have world class opportunities which allow them to compete with any students in the country.
Literacy for Life
Literacy for Life is a thematic curriculum taught for 17 hours with a single teacher in Year 7, 13 hours in Year 8 and 9 hours in Year 9 teaching across a range of subjects. Each teacher is focussed on the 25 students in their class, not just from an academic perspective but also getting to know the students and their families and forming a partnership which helps students to progress.
The programme has been run successfully within our Trust for the past 11 years and judged Outstanding by Ofsted at the last two inspections.
As a Director of Literacy for Life, you will be part of a team that is responsible for promoting standards, shaping the curriculum and taking an oversight of students’ pastoral development and have a Year 7 Teaching commitment.
Our KS3 programme is accommodated in a bespoke technologically rich, new build environment.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment