Vacancy: Humanities Teacher
Hours of Work: Full time, fixed term contract, term time only (includes 5 INSET days & 10 Development Days): Monday – Thursday 08.00 – 16.30 / Friday 08.00 – 15.30
Salary: £24,000 – £28,000 per annum
Base: Huddersfield
The Charity
Fresh Futures is a regional charity working with vulnerable and disadvantaged children, young people and their families, within Kirklees and surrounding areas. Our vision is that all young people have opportunities for a better life, now and in the future. We are thought leaders and together with partners, we deliver outcomes through four interwoven strands of activity – providing education services and facilities, building healthy relationships, promoting health and wellbeing and improving employability skills.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has become available within Fresh Futures’ Brian Jackson College Team. We are seeking an enthusiastic Humanities Tutor to join our team at the Huddersfield provision working across KS3/KS4.
Why the role exists and overall responsibility
The successful candidate will play a vital role in supporting and have responsibility for the learning of disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils in the school, by providing high quality teaching to pupils within a specialist subject, in line with national curriculum guidelines.
Main activities
* Teaching
* Plan classes in line with the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subjects that you teach.
* Prepare and develop teaching materials, teaching programmes and pastoral arrangements as appropriate.
* Provide an inspiring, motivating and challenging environment to enable pupils to fulfil their potential.
* Provide different techniques to engage pupils in active, hands-on, creative problem-based learning.
* Provide teaching based on each pupil's individual needs, capabilities and learning preferences.
* Apply a range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives for pupils of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions, monitoring learners' progress and levels of attainment.
* Provide pupils with feedback to enable ongoing learning and development.
* Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy including the correct use of spoken English (whatever your specialist subject).
* Behaviour and safety
* Establish a safe, purposeful and stimulating environment for pupils.
* Use the school's framework for behaviour management to implement a range of strategies, consistently and fairly.
* Team working and collaboration
* Participate in any relevant meetings/professional development opportunities at the school, which relate to learners, curriculum or organisation of the school including pastoral arrangements.
* Take part as required in the review, development and management of the activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the school.
* Wider professional responsibilities:
* Ensure parents/carers are kept informed of pupils' progress, achievements and well-being.
* Coordinate delivery and progress across both provisions working collaboratively with all teaching staff employed at Brian Jackson College.
* To ensure that adequate information is provided in the event that ‘cover’ is needed for absence due to sickness or any other cause.
* Administration:
* Ensure pupil records and plans are kept up to date.
* Be fully responsible for marking all pupil work following the school's marking policy.
* Safeguarding Duties and Responsibilities
* The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* The following duties are expected of all staff:
* Proactively ensuring the effective implementation of Child Protection and other related policies.
* Ensuring full compliance with all relevant statutory regulations as well as all school policies, Health & Safety regulations etc.
* Communicating effectively with all relevant stakeholders including colleagues, students, parents and outside agencies as appropriate.
* Other Duties
* To promote Equality and Diversity in all aspects of work.
* To cooperate with the promotion and maintenance of a safe and healthy working environment and own health and safety.
* Perform any reasonable duties as requested by the head teacher.
Knowledge, training and experience required
* Experience working with KS3 & KS4 pupils in Alternative provision or PRU setting.
* Specialist subject.
* PGCE/QTS or equivalent.
* Experience of delivering GCSE within the national curriculum, and functional skills.
* Experience of assessing, recording and reporting on pupils' learning.
* Working with young people experiencing SEMH.
* Training in behaviour management.
Key personal characteristics
* A team player with a positive, solution-focused approach.
* Flexible and reliable.
* Inspiring and enthusiastic.
* Good time management.
Completed application forms should ideally be emailed to us at Brigitte.barrowclough@freshfutures.org.uk or be posted to Brian Jackson College, Wellington House, Lincoln Street, Huddersfield, HD1 6RX and must arrive no later than the closing date and time specified.
If you are interested in this role, please complete the application form plus any additional role-specific forms found at the top of this page, and return it to brigitte.barrowclough@freshfutures.org.uk before the closing date.
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