English Teacher

Essential Criteria: ECT (Early Careers Teacher) or QTS (Qualified Teacher Status)
Location: Portsmouth
Contract Type: Permanent – Full-time
Job Start: January 2024
Salary: Up to £45k per annum

We are currently representing a thriving and leading secondary school in Portsmouth who are looking for English Teacher. The school is wanting to strengthen their existing team and to continue to build on their success in the new academic year.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and imaginative classroom practitioner to join a dynamic team, led by a Heads of Faculty.

The School:

The school is a heavily oversubscribed inclusive comprehensive secondary school with a student intake that reflects a wonderfully diverse and vibrant local community.

The culture of this school is very family orientated, they see themselves as a big family and are very supportive towards each other. They cultivate personal development and progression within the school. The school is also expanding and has recently had an extension on their building with plans to add an extra 250 students to the school.

Their fundamental mission is to provide an exceptional learning experience for every student so that they may lead a happy and successful life now and in the future. They achieve this by developing a highly ambitious curriculum, providing inspirational teaching, offering life changing opportunities through an incredible range of co-curricular activities, trips, visits and other opportunities for young people to develop their life skills.

Requirements

Job Role:

A newly qualified or experienced English Teacher with a real passion for your subject, the vision and the drive to see students succeed. This post provides an excellent opportunity to develop your career within an attractive and well-resourced working environment, supported by a talented and dedicated team of staff.

Typical Job Duties and Accountabilities:

·Teaching KS3 and KS4 English in such a way as to challenge and inspire students of all abilities

·Planning, preparing and marking lessons

·All staff are expected to do everything they can to protect the children and young people from harm and to make the learning environment safe

·Support pupils to engage in learning activities, adapt tasks for individuals and assist them to make progress

·Attend to the pupils personal needs, and implement related personal programmes, including social, health, physical, hygiene, first aid and welfare matters

·Supervise and support pupil ensuring their safety and access to learning in a clean and tidy environment

·Establish good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and being aware of and responding appropriately to individual needs

·Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils

·Encourage pupils to act independently as appropriate

·Learn and use safe systems for moving, handling and physical interventions as appropriate Support for tutors

·Be aware of pupil progress/achievements and report observations to the teacher in the agreed format

·Supporting a positive home-school relationship, by sharing information with parents and carers

Benefits

The Benefits:

• excellent induction and CPD programme
• various benefits to all employees through our extensive wellbeing programme.
• flexible working could be considered
• robust and supportive performance management systems
• a technology rich school
• strong leadership and support
• Effective progression within the school

Requirements
Job Role: A newly qualified or experienced English Teacher with a real passion for your subject, the vision and the drive to see students succeed. This post provides an excellent opportunity to develop your career within an attractive and well-resourced working environment, supported by a talented and dedicated team of staff. Typical Job Duties and Accountabilities: · Teaching KS3 and KS4 English in such a way as to challenge and inspire students of all abilities · Planning, preparing and marking lessons · All staff are expected to do everything they can to protect the children and young people from harm and to make the learning environment safe · Support pupils to engage in learning activities, adapt tasks for individuals and assist them to make progress · Attend to the pupils’ personal needs, and implement related personal programmes, including social, health, physical, hygiene, first aid and welfare matters · Supervise and support pupil ensuring their safety and access to learning in a clean and tidy environment · Establish good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and being aware of and responding appropriately to individual needs · Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils · Encourage pupils to act independently as appropriate · Learn and use safe systems for moving, handling and physical interventions as appropriate Support for tutors · Be aware of pupil progress/achievements and report observations to the teacher in the agreed format · Supporting a positive home-school relationship, by sharing information with parents and carers