Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 27 January 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 19 January 2025
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £33,594.00 - £50,589.00
Working Pattern: 35 Hours per week
Location: Waid Academy, Anstruther
Purpose and Values of Education & Children's Services Directorate
The Education & Children's Services Directorate is committed to Improving Life Chances for All through a wide range of direct services which support our children, young people, families, and the wider Fife community. Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values: Compassion, Ambition, Respect, and Equity which reflect the ethos, culture, and practice principles of all staff across the directorate.
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement in the section marked 'upload resumé'. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV.
Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement:
1. Ways in which you have modelled and promoted the GTCS Professional Values (social justice, trust, respect, and integrity) and Professional Commitment in your current and previous roles?
2. Ways in which you demonstrated your professional knowledge and understanding of learning, teaching, assessment, and curriculum through an enquiring stance.
3. Ways in which you have effectively planned to meet all learners' needs?
4. Ways in which you have built and sustained positive relationships that have led to positive outcomes for learners.
Job Details
We are looking for a highly-skilled and dynamic teacher who is passionate about improving life chances for all, through a professional commitment to making a difference for all of our young people so that they achieve their full potential. As a teacher in Fife, you will be responsible for leading learning within your classroom context, promoting inclusion, diversity, and equality, communicating with other stakeholders, and contributing to wider improvements across the school community.
Waid Academy is a six-year comprehensive school in Anstruther, Fife. We aim to provide the highest quality educational experience focused on positive outcomes for all our learners. Our curriculum is designed to meet the needs of all learners, offering a vast range of qualifications and awards, allowing pupils to experience the pathway to success that is right for them.
Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements
You are required to have high levels of interpersonal skills and abilities which will enable you to work as a member of a team to ensure positive outcomes for all children and young people in your setting. You must demonstrate a commitment to your own professional learning as a practitioner through career-long professional learning activity and show how this has impacted your practice.
Before confirming your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme. For posts within Primary, you are required to be fully registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) in Primary. For posts within Secondary, you are required to be fully registered with the GTCS in Secondary for the specific subject.
You are required to model all behaviour expected of a teacher in Scotland in line with the relevant Professional Standards. Full registration is required for all Permanent posts; for temporary class teacher posts, provisional GTCS registration in the relevant sector will be considered.
Further Information
* Role Profile: Review the role profile when preparing your supporting statement.
* How We Work Matters: Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace.
* Employee Benefits: Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services.
For further information please contact Dawn Redman: Dawn.Redman@fife.gov.uk
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