What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
• Be passionate about delivering an outstanding and ambitious curriculum for all students.
• Be an excellent teacher in your chosen field.
• Be able to motivate and inspire students and staff to a achieve the very best outcomes.
• Be an effective leader and team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Have a proven track record of improving outcomes.
• Understand the barriers to achievement and how to overcome them.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic and inspiring applicant to lead the Business Studies department, in our fabulous, vibrant, growing 11-18 secondary school of 1,600 students that received ‘outstanding’ from Ofsted for personal development, behaviour and welfare in their last four inspections.
The governors, staff, students and parents are committed to serving our community in our inclusive, friendly school. If you feel you could contribute to this vision, we would be pleased to receive your application.
Further details about the role
The Business Studies Department
Studying Business develops key attributes sought by employers such as critical thinking, analytical skills, problem solving, and the ability to research and interpret business data.
Students with this knowledge and skill set can be highly employable in areas such as advertising, banking, finance, personnel management and logistics, in both public and private sectors – indeed it is difficult to name a career where knowledge of business practices would not be of use.
Our ethos as a department is to engage our students in their studies through a constant referral to, and use of, current business-related news stories and developments, in order to bring real life and subject content together. Our students sit examinations delivered by Pearson Edexcel at both GCSE and A-level; they have achieved excellent results, and many have been inspired to pursue their interest in Business at degree level. The Pearson Edexcel GCSE 9-1 course requires students to explore key business concepts, issues and skills involved in starting and running a small business such as enterprise and entrepreneurship, spotting a business opportunity, putting a business idea into practice, making the business effective, and understanding external influences on business. The course then considers how a business develops beyond the start-up phase by exploring growing the business, making marketing decisions, operational decisions, financial decisions, and human resource decisions. All topic areas require students to consider the national and global business environment and its impact on business behaviour and decisions. The Pearson Edexcel A-level involves the study of business leadership and management, marketing, accounting and finance, operations management, decision making techniques, human resources, business strategy, the external environment, economic changes and influences, and globalisation. The course covers all types of businesses from the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors, and considers the implications of operating on local, national and international scales. In addition to studying business theories and concepts our students are encouraged to participate in entrepreneurial activities such as the Young Enterprise Tenner Challenge, the Student Investor Challenge, and of course we encourage our very own budding entrepreneurs who run their own businesses outside of school
Commitment to safeguarding
Committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. All staff, volunteers must share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment are subject to these checks • childcare disqualification • DBS • medical • online and social media • prohibition from teaching • right to work • satisfactory references • suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. We will protect your personal data and we take this responsibility very seriously.