Job Description

Geography Teacher

£170-£220 per day

January 2025 start

Location: Ilford

Summary

Inspire, transform, teach! One of my clients are currently looking to appoint a dedicated and inspiring Teacher of Geography.

At this school 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.

About Us

They are always on the lookout for inspirational and influential staff. Most of all, we are on the lookout for potential colleagues who like our students and want to help them succeed. In order to help our staff, have the best possible experience and achieve a proper work- life balance, we have put into place a range of measures to benefit both our teaching and students’ services colleagues.

These include:

Outstanding professional

Excellent promotion opportunities

A constant dialogue about workload and how to manage it most effectively. We have regular workload audits, and frequent campaigns to tackle unnecessary work and identify quick wins

Rapid and effective support with any student behavioural issues arising

A high-quality staff induction programme

Marking protocols devised by departments themselves

Manageable and flexible lesson planning expectations

Clear communications and manageable deadlines. We only ask staff to do what is necessary and avoid complication and confusion. It is an exceptionally well-run school

Learning walks rather than formal lesson observations. These are not graded

Nursery on site

Flexible and part time working encouraged whenever possible

Additional time for leadership responsibilities

Focus on effective outcomes rather than time spent

High levels of administrative support for all teachers

Ongoing celebration of staff excellence

We place high emphasis on staff wellbeing at our Academy. This helps colleagues to be happier and more effective in their work. Staff are regularly consulted about their wellbeing and the outcomes of these consultations have a direct and rapid impact upon the Academy’s approach to supporting staff wellbeing. 

We understand that while it is incredibly rewarding, teaching is also a physically and emotionally wearing job.  We want teachers to be as fit and fresh as possible and to know that the school as a community really cares about how they are.  We have tried to put these principles into practice with several initiatives which we think give teachers one of the best wellbeing packages to be found anywhere.  These include:

A meeting free week every half term

An extra week of holiday with a two-week half term in the Autumn

A late start or early finish for every teacher on one day each week

A staff mindfulness programme led by trained colleagues and supported by a free mindfulness app

Subsidised gym membership 

Staff fitness and exercise classes

Guest speakers on wellbeing

Regular special events such as comedy nights

The ‘Perkbox’ package of financial benefits

Staff discounts at shops and restaurants in the local area

Access to the staff counselling service

Our staff are regularly consulted on the wellbeing services the school provides and we always try to respond to staff suggestions.  In this way, staff feel empowered and get more of the services they really want.  We are very proud of our wellbeing programme at the school and hope you will agree that it shows our commitment to making the school an exemplary working environment.

Main Areas of Responsibility

The purpose of your role will be:

To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.

To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher/form tutor

To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential

To contribute to raising standards of student attainment

To share and support the academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth

Your main areas of responsibility will fall under the areas of:

Operational and strategic planning (including lesson planning, developing resources and syllabuses, and contributing to the departmental plan)

Curriculum planning

Staff development (including continuing professional development and engaging fully in the Performance Management Review process)

Quality assurance (including contributing to the process of monitoring and evaluating the subject area)

Management of information (including maintaining appropriate records and tracking student progress)

Communications with students, parents and other stakeholders

Pastoral system (including being a form tutor to a selected group of students)

Teaching, ensuring a high-quality learning experience for students

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will:

Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree

Have successful teaching experience at secondary level (can be teaching practice), ideally including experience in multi-ethnic urban schools and of working in an 11-18 school

Understand the theory and practice of effective teaching and learning

Understand the importance of high expectations and equality of access for all students, and of being a tutor

Have knowledge of National Curriculum requirements at KS3 and KS4, and of writing lesson plans, developing resources and assessing students' work

Be able to work as part of a team and to develop and maintain positive relationships with all staff

Have a good level of ICT skills, ideally including innovative use of interactive white boards

Be able to create a motivating and safe learning environment for all students

Be able to communicate positively with parents, carers and other external agencies where necessary

Have good written and spoken communication skills

Be able to lead and manage their own work effectively

Have excellent time management skills

Be able to motivate students and raise their aspirations through a range of strategies

If you think this is the right role for you, please submit your CV, email or call (phone number removed) and ask for Amy.

All applicants will be contacted to discuss suitability and then invited to register with TeacherActive.

Registration involves an enhanced DBS check, ID checks and will require you to supply good professional references. We pride ourselves on excellent service. We can provide a wide range of opportunities in schools and other educational institutions, with good rates of pay, at times to suit your needs.

Regular external audits have shown repeatedly that our standards are exceptional. We are passionate about finding the right staff for each environment.

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