Job Description
Post Title: Teacher of Design, Technology and Visual Arts
Location: Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
Salary/Pay Range: M1 to UPS3 (£28,000 to £43,684)
Hours of work: Full-time, teacher contract 32.5 hours per week
Reporting to: Curriculum Team Leader for DTVA
We are looking to appoint a dynamic, highly skilled, passionate and enthusiastic teacher of design, technology or visual-arts, where teaching and learning is at the heart of our collaborative practice. The successful candidate will possess excellent organisational and teaching skills with the ability to inspire and motivate students. The DTVA faculty is a very popular faculty, which educates students every year in examination courses at KS4&5. This is the opportunity to work within a strong, and supportive faculty with a track record of excellent external examination results and a collegiate approach to working.
A bespoke CPD programme at Heanor Gate means that tailored support is matched to career stage expectations and individuals continually develop their own professional practice in line with personal priorities. For ECT’s a comprehensive package of support and mentoring is offered both at Heanor Gate but also in collaboration with other ECT’s across the trust’s wide range of schools, ensuring they are fully integrated to the ethos of the school and the trust.
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy
Heanor Gate Spencer Academy is a ‘good’ secondary school and sixth form (Ofsted March 2022) with a strong commitment to ongoing professional development. Over the past 5 years we have developed a fantastic culture amongst the students which is rooted in strong discipline and has culminated in a student body full of aspiration, commitment and success. The staff buy into the hashtag #TeamHeanor and this ethos of collegiality, team values and moral compass is what makes the unique working environment at Heanor Gate so enjoyable and fulfilling.
We believe that through an ethos of ‘Aspire, Learn and Achieve’, all of our students will achieve their very best educational outcomes. This ethos is at the heart of everything that we do. We want our students to believe that they can achieve whatever they want to with hard work, resilience and self-motivation.
We deliver a challenging yet inspiring curriculum and an unrivalled level of academic and pastoral support, and believe that what we offer students will support them to achieve success in the classroom and beyond; academically, personally and socially. We aim to instil students with a love of learning as well as helping them to become responsible, independent members of the community.
As well as the staff being united by the concept of #TeamHeanor, to ensure that our students succeed at school and in life, all students work towards demonstrating the following #TeamHeanor values in all aspects of school life:
- Respect
- Pride
- Unity
- Resilience
- Integrity
- Organisation
As part of the Spencer Academies Trust, we work alongside other schools in ensuring we deliver the very best education possible.
Spencer Academies Trust
SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2500 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.
We currently have 16 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.
Mission: Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
Vision: Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.
We Believe:
- All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development
- Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership
- We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more
Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.
How to apply – please complete your candidate profile via our new Every portal. If you are accessing the portal for the first time, you will need to register to add and save your information before tagging your profile to this vacancy. There is a video to help https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656
For more information on this post please contact Jess Oliver, Curriculum Team Leader, jessoliver@heanoratespencer.com, 01773 716396.
In line with safer recruitment policies references will be called for, prior to interview.
Closing date for applications: Friday 12 May 2023
Interviews taking place: Week commencing 15 May 2023
Our application deadline may end earlier where we have received a high and early positive response, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as early as possible.
Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to enhanced DBS with children’s barred list checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training. Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer
Job Description – Teacher of Design, Technology and Visual Arts
Purpose of Role
We are looking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic teacher to join our supportive and high performing departments. Both dedicated teams enjoy working collaboratively to ensure students have the best possible experience in their lessons. We achieve above average results at both GCSE and A Level and attract good numbers at post 16.
Nature and Scope
Working as part of the team you will be required to carry out the following duties. The nature of the Academy Year requires some of these tasks to be done regularly whilst others will be on an annual cycle. The post holder will be expected to use all Trust standard computer hardware and software packages where appropriate.
Specific responsibilities include:
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Professional Expectations
- Be part of a learning environment and have a love of learning for its own sake
- Be aware that learning is an interaction of numerous variables, most of which are personal
- Be aware that learning is an individual and subject process
- Know that learning is not linear
- Develop a vocabulary and agreed principles for constructive feedback for students and parents
- Make explicit your expectation of students
- At all times recognise and implement all school policies consistently and fairly, e.g. marking, spelling, report writing, homework
- Arrive on time, welcome students and start with encouraging and achievable activities
- Protect the learning of students by challenging all disruptive behaviour in the agreed manner and dealing with situations where the learning of students is being adversely affected
- Regularly review own performance and lesson content
- Have high academic and behavioural expectations for all students
- Know the learning needs of students and keep up to date with current knowledge and models of how we learn
- Produce lessons which encompass a wide variety of learning strategies
- Re-evaluate your work as a teacher in the light of student outcomes
- Provide opportunities for spiritual, moral and cultural development
- Promote an understanding of the use of ICT
- Advice, take advice from and liaise with support staff
Teaching and Learning
- Provide regular opportunities during lesson for students to review their progress
- Be aware that there are numerous outcomes to any learning activity
- Start each lesson by communicating to the students a clear review of what has gone before, a preview of what is to come, specify the outcomes for the lesson in a motivational way
- Provide opportunities and activities which encourage independent learning skills
- Encourage students to challenge themselves and then learn from their mistakes
- Create a visually stimulating and helpful learning environment
- From subject specific schemes of work, produce lessons which are appropriate to the learning needs of individual classes
- Encourage peer coaching
- Be aware of the basic difference of how boys and girls learn, different intelligence and learning strategies
- Make effective use of comprehensive and differentiated schemes of work
- Engage emotions of students in the knowledge that learning has to engage the heart as well as the mind and that students have to want to learn
- Teach the student thinking skills
- Use appropriate strategies for delivering content
- Use examples which learners can readily recognise
Mentoring and Student Progression
- Encourage students to keep a portfolio of success stories
- Carry out careful monitoring/assessment of students through accepted procedures, including attendance
- Through the careful marking of work, 1:1 sessions with students, written reports and parent consultations, offer regular and appropriate feedback which is authentic, specific and thorough and will help students meet their learning goals
- Ensure that students review their learning experiences in order to inform their future learning goals through the setting of personal performance targets
- Hold 1:1 mentoring interviews with students to reflect on successful outcomes and to set appropriate learning targets for improvement in line with school policy
- Provide opportunities for spiritual, moral and cultural development
- Promote an understanding of the use of ICT
General
- The post holder will be expected to use all Trust standard computer hardware and software packages where appropriate
- Work in a professional manner and with integrity and maintain confidentiality of records and information
- Maintain up to date knowledge in line with national changes and legislation as appropriate to the role
- Be aware of and comply with all Trust policies including in particular Health and Safety and Safeguarding
- Participate in the Trust Appraisal process and undertake professional development as required
- Adhere to all internal and external deadlines
- Contribute to the overall aims and ethos of the Spencer Academies Trust and establish constructive relationships with nominated Academies and other agencies as appropriate to the role
- These above-mentioned duties are neither exclusive nor exhaustive, the post- holder maybe required to carry out other duties as required by the Trust
General
These above-mentioned duties are neither exclusive nor exhaustive, the post- holder maybe required to carry out other duties as required by the Trust.
Additional Information
The Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks and completion of Level 2 safeguarding training.
Person Specification
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications and experience
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Degree in relevant subject
- Good honours degree
- Evidence of recent relevant professional development
- Evidence of excellent classroom practice
- Teaching at KS3 and KS4 in relevant subject
- Ability to teach GCSE and /or A Level in relevant subject
- Experience of using a wide variety of teaching and learning strategies across the key stages
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Knowledge and skills
- Awareness of child protection agenda
- Knowledge of National Curriculum at Key Stage 3, 4 and 5
- Committed to continued professional development
- Knowledge of how children learn
- Child protection training
- Understanding of cross-curricular activities
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team
- Ability to enthuse and work with children of all ages, ability and aptitudes
- Ability to work effectively as a tutor and involvement in the delivery of PSHE
- Able to offer contributions to whole school/extra-curricular activities
- Able to assess pupil performance and set targets for future attainment
- Keen to develop and employ more effective teaching and learning strategies to maximise pupil performance
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Personal qualities
- Likes working with children
- Demonstrates enthusiasm and sensitivity whilst working with others
- Excellent attendance and punctuality record
- Always meets deadlines
- Able to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
- ‘Professional’ role model
- High personal standards
- Innovative and able to stimulate initiative in others
- Provide positive and appropriate role model for students
- Forms and maintains appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with students
- Commitment to the highest standards of child protection and safeguarding
- Recognition of the importance of personal responsibility for health and safety
- Commitment to the Trust’s ethos, aims and whole community
- Ambitious
- Willing to go that ‘extra mile’
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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £28,000.00-£43,684.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Wellness programme
Schedule:
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 12/05/2023
Reference ID: Teacher of Design, Technology and Visual Arts
Expected start date: 01/09/2023
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