Job Description

We are looking for an inspiring and energetic Teacher of Media who is as passionate about developing their students as people as they are about their subject. As a teacher at The Sixth Form, you will join a dedicated and dynamic team of teachers and staff in supporting our fantastic students.

We are looking for a teacher for whom Media comes first; someone who can:

Teach Media Studies, enthusiastically, infectiously

Make sure all students develop a deep understanding of and love for the subject

Assess and intervene so that students reach the top grades

Share a passion for pedagogy with other teachers, both within and outside science

Develop and adapt the classroom curriculum to meet students' needs

Encourage students' self-confidence and a commitment to their future so that they see and seize opportunities for personal, professional and academic growth

Guide, lead, monitor and support a group of students as a form tutor

Contribute to a wider passion for learning and the enrichment curriculum.

We encourage and welcome any applicant who meets the majority of our criteria to apply.

About Us

We are a community who work together for the greater good of our academy; there is a culture of mutual respect and kindness between staff and students.

Our academy is brand new and benefits from being a state-of-the-art building. It has been especially designed to deliver a Sixth Form education.

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

For further details, please download the job pack.

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

Have knowledge of National Curriculum requirements at KS3 and KS4,

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

Horizon Teachers is a specialist Education Recruitment Consultancy that helps Teachers and Support Staff find long term, permanent and interim employment in Primary, Secondary and Special Schools throughout London, the South East, the Midlands and the North of England. As part of the registration process you will be required to have a DBS Check carried out and all original relevant qualifications will need to be sighted and copied before any work placement. For all teaching roles you will need to hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent. 

Horizon Teachers. Enhancing Children's Education