What skills and experience we're looking for
• Have a secure and up to date knowledge and understanding of the concepts and skills necessary to teach specialist subjects.
• Plan to achieve progression in pupils learning in line with agreed expectations on targets.
• Set homework, mark and assess in line with school policies. Engage with school wide learning initiatives.
• Ensure that high quality teaching and learning takes place in all allocated classes.
• Mark, assess, record and report on pupil achievement and maintain records as stated in the schools policy. Maintain accurate records and use assessment data to monitor progress, targets and take action (e.g. SEN, most able pupils, monitor and track under achievement).
• Contribute to the development of Schemes of Learning, School and Team policies as requested.
• Maintain a purposeful, orderly classroom environment including neat storage, learning centred display and by employing a range of behaviour management strategies. Monitor targets for pupils on report.
• Undertake specific duties within the Team as agreed with your line manager.
• Attend and contribute positively to meetings and professional development activities.
• Promote and contribute where possible to the school’s extra-curricular programme.
• Meet deadlines for reports, marking, assessment grades on a centralised tracking spread sheet.
• Prepare pupils for examinations and take part in standardisation or moderating exercises as require by the Team or examination boards.
• Contribute to Citizenship teaching, special one day events and to the ethos of a Business and Enterprise Specialist School.
• Provide a welcoming environment to visitors and respond within 24 hours to telephone calls and within 7 days to written correspondence.
• Follow School Policy and support the Leadership Team in the effective operation of the school.
• Carry out the role of form tutor as required.
• All teachers at West Hatch may be required to deliver in subjects other than their specialism dependent upon the school’s curriculum needs. The senior team will determine subjects taught dependant on the teachers individual experiences, skills and or qualifications.
What the school offers its staff
We offer the following benefits:
• Newly built sports hall with fully fitted gym available for staff use,
• Swimming pool available for staff use,
• Banked cover scheme allowing staff to build time to take some term time days off,
• The Headteacher is passionate about staff workload and wellbeing and holds regular wellbeing meetings with staff,
• Minimal marking expectations,
• Additional CPD day to allow staff to mark mock internal examinations,
• All our teachers are provided with laptops and staff are welcome to work where and when they wish outside of school hours,
• We offer a significant number of paid development opportunities within departments and also across the school.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (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 conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.