Closing Date: 03/02/2025 12:00 Interview Date: TBC Start Date: 01/09/2025
Establishment: Fairfax Academy Location: Sutton Coldfield Salary: £31620 - £49084 Department: Business & ICT Job Type: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent Hours per Week: 32.50 Weeks per Year: 52.142 Pay Grade: Main Pay Scale | Upper pay scale
The Role
Fairfax Academy seeks a Teacher of Computer Science and ICT to join our successful and highly popular Business and Computing Faculty. The department offers a range of courses, including GCSE Computer Science (OCR), Level 2 Cambridge National in Creative iMedia (OCR), and BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate in Information Technology (Pearson). In addition, we deliver the KS3 National Curriculum for Computing, ensuring students gain a solid foundation in digital literacy and computational thinking.
The faculty is very well-resourced, with modern, up-to-date IT classrooms and a wide range of high-quality teaching and learning resources that support innovative and engaging lessons. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking department committed to delivering outstanding education in Computing and ICT.
The faculty has invested in the development of AI Technology; applicants with an interest or experience in AI are desirable but not essential.
Applications from both Early Career Teachers (ECTs) and experienced teachers are welcome.
Fairfax is an academy with traditional values, and an ethos built around hard work, high expectations, and opportunity. Our aim is to ensure that our students leave the Academy prepared to succeed in the next stages of their careers, education, and training.
We believe that every child should leave school proud of the young adult they have become, and that every youngster attending our Trust deserves the opportunity to thrive in an atmosphere where high expectations meet endless possibilities.
The successful candidate will:
* Set high expectations which motivate and challenge students in a productive learning environment
* Promote good outcomes by students, planning well-structured lessons
* Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge
* Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all students
* Make accurate and productive use of assessment
* Fulfil wider professional responsibilities with high standards of personal and professional conduct
In return we will offer you:
* Access to support and guidance from other subject leaders across the MAT and form subject expertise within the Academy SLT
* Bespoke Continual Professional Development (in the academy and online via the National College)
* Discounts at nationwide retailers
* Employee assistance programme
* Up to 4 structured counselling sessions per year
* A MAT wide focus on staff well-being
Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will therefore be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as well as providing evidence of qualifications.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Qualifications
* Degree in a relevant subject - Essential
Skills
* Focused on standards and positive outcomes - Essential
* Adaptable - ability to adapt style to a variety of situations and people - Essential
* Experience of dealing with sensitive and confidential student information - Essential
* Ability to teach ‘good or outstanding’ lessons - Essential
Experience/Knowledge
* Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection issues and procedures - Essential
* Good knowledge of up-to-date techniques, materials, and equipment relevant to the National Curriculum - Desirable
* Knowledge and understanding of how children learn and how to motivate them - Essential
* Knowledge of Health and Safety Regulations and how they apply in a school environment - Desirable
* Experience of following procedures and instructions - Essential
* Experience working with students with diagnosed difficulties, SALT, ASD, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia etc. - Desirable
* Knowledge and experience of SEN code of practice and related procedures and paperwork - Desirable
* Experience of working in an educational environment - Desirable
Personal Attributes
* Ability to travel to academies when required - Desirable
* Excellent attendance and punctuality - Essential
* Commitment to Trust aim and values - Essential
* Knowledge, understanding and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion informed by practical experience and application - Essential
* Inspires confidence in all pupils, staff, parents, governors and the wider community in order to promote the school - Essential
* Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, parents and students - Essential
Fairfax Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.
Following the update of KCSIE 2023, Fairfax Multi Academy Trust will now carry out online checks of all appointments.
Fairfax Multi Academy Trust is also committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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