What skills and experience we're looking for
We are currently looking to appoint a Teacher of Music to join our happy and successful school.
At Harris Academy Ockendon you will join a dedicated team of teachers and staff supporting our vibrant students. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow, inspire and develop, this may be the role for you.
We would like to hear from you if you:
• Enjoy working with teenagers and helping them succeed
• Believe in our shared values: work hard, be kind, take responsibility
• Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree
• Have successful teaching experience at secondary level
• Understand the theory and practice of effective teaching and learning
• Understand the importance of high expectations and equality of access for all students
• Have knowledge of National Curriculum requirements at KS3 and KS4 in particular
• Are able to work as part of a team and to develop and maintain positive relationships with all staff
• Are able to create a motivating and safe learning environment for all students
• Are able to communicate positively with parents, carers and other external agencies where necessary
• Have good written and spoken communication skills
• Are able to lead and manage your own work effectively
• Have excellent time management skills
• Are able to motivate students and raise their aspirations through a range of strategies
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
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What the school offers its staff
“I am passionate about three things:
• Leading staff to become happy, successful, highly trained professionals who stay in the game and don't burn out or lose their way.
• Creating a fulfilling secondary experience for students where they can grow to become well-rounded, ambitious and successful young adults ready to put a ding in the universe.
• My life outside work.
Being great at number 1 and number 2 should not mean we can't do number 3!”
- George McMillan, Executive Principal and National Leader of Education.
We are an 11-18 academy with a thriving Sixth Form and a lovely building. ; It is a school where we are as passionate about developing our staff as we are about developing our students.
Our location just outside the M25 means we attract staff not only from Essex but from London. Indeed, over half our staff live in Kent/Surrey/South East and Central London. Some of our team even travel from West London because they like the school so much.
Our role here is to help students and staff dream bigger than they ever thought possible, and to make that dream come true through our culture of “work hard, be kind, take responsibility” which beats at the heart of our school.
We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.
In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
Your responsibilities will include:
• Ensuring the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality curriculum that has high expectations of achievement for all students
• Ensuring curriculum coverage is appropriate for all students, including those of high ability and those with special educational or linguistic needs
• Making suitable adjustments to the curriculum and lessons to ensure all students learn the intended curriculum
• Ensuring effective development of students' literacy, numeracy and information technology skills
• Constantly striving to produce lessons that enable students to make outstanding progress through the curriculum, ensuring that every pupil makes progress in every lesson
• Planning effectively for every lesson, in accordance with Harris Ockendon 6 Principles of Teaching
• Establishing a partnership with parents to involve them in their child's learning of the subject
• Fulfilling the role of a Form Tutor and teaching the PRE or Guided Reading curriculum
• Creating an effective and stimulating environment for teaching and learning
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.