Teacher of Mathematics
Ullswater Community College
Cumbria
- £30,000 - £46,525 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- 1st January 2025
- Apply by:
- 21 October 2024
Job overview
Hours: full time, initial 18-month contract (1 January 2025 to 31 August 2026)
· Are you an innovative and confident teacher who delivers motivating, high-quality maths lessons?
· Are you passionate about driving up standards and ensuring that all pupils are challenged to reach their maximum potential?
· Would you like to live and work near the beautiful Lake District National Park?
Then we would welcome an application to join our successful, well-established Mathematics Department, where teachers with a passion for their subject work hard to ensure the success of our students. If you share this desire to make a real difference to the lives of young people, please find out more and make an application.
About the job
We’re looking for a confident, highly motivated primary- or secondary-trained colleague who enjoys delivering exceptional lessons and who is focused on enabling pupils to achieve their very best.
This full-time, fixed-term role starts on 1 January 2025. Initially in place to cover a colleague’s maternity leave, there is the possibility of extension beyond August 2026, depending on the return of the postholder.
About you
Our successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:
· effective and successful classroom teaching
· excellent subject knowledge
· a positive, constructive working relationship with pupils and adults
The successful candidate will teach predominantly Key Stage 3 lessons, with some Key Stage 4 teaching for the right person. We therefore welcome applications from both primary and secondary colleagues.
This is a great opportunity for an ECT or experienced teacher to work in a friendly, dynamic environment and to play a full and active role in the continual development of high-quality teaching and learning.
About us
Ullswater Community College (UCC) is a happy school, where students and teachers expect to treat one another with respect.
We’re a larger than average 11–18 comprehensive school serving the biggest catchment area in England. We received an Ofsted Good rating in April 2023 and were recognised as ‘Best Secondary School in Cumbria’ at the annual NewsQuest Educational awards in October 2023.
We’re intensely ambitious for our students, care deeply about all aspects of their success and value everyone’s unique differences. Our vision is to ensure that UCC is ‘best in county’ in all we do.
This is an exciting time to be joining us – we’ve been named in the school rebuilding programme and anticipate a significant investment or new build in the near future.
What we offer
We invest heavily in staff development, consider the well-being of colleagues in every development and encourage staff to be fully involved in whole-school and departmental learning initiatives.
We provide our staff with:
· A welcoming and supportive community where they really do matter – our Staff Wellbeing group is an integral part of the school culture.
· An outstanding programme of continuing professional development at all levels, which provides opportunities to develop the skills and qualities to progress your career.
· An excellent ECT programme, which is supportive and professionally run.
· A committed, supportive and approachable senior leadership team with a clear vision for raising standards and maintaining a responsive and professional working environment.
· Membership of the Health Assured employee assistance programme.
· A cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme.
At UCC we also pride ourselves on our fantastic students and curriculum offer. Our strong pastoral system is organised on a horizontal basis and most teachers are Form Tutors, in which important aspect of their work they are led and supported by Leaders of Achievement and Success.
To apply
We encourage applications from all members of society, regardless of background, gender, ethnicity, disability or age (as long as you're over 18).
We welcome applications using either the TES application procedure or our own application form. This can be downloaded from our website, where full job details and comprehensive information about the school can also be found. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any queries (hr@ullswatercc.co.uk).
UCC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Employment at UCC is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed; if they are disclosed, the school cannot take them into account.
Please be aware that we may perform an online search if you accept an invitation to interview.
Closing date for applications: 9 am Monday 21 October 2024
Interviews will be held Thursday 24 October 2024
Please note that we can contact only the successful applicants.
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if a suitable candidate is found.
Attached documents
About Ullswater Community College
Information for candidates
Ullswater Community College (UCC) is a happy school, where students and teachers expect to treat one another with respect.
Location: situated in Penrith – a Cumbrian market town on the fringes of the Lake District National Park – UCC is just a stone's throw from Ullswater, the second largest lake in the Lake District.
Caring and well liked: a popular and oversubscribed school, at UCC we're intensely ambitious for our students, care deeply about all aspects of their success and value everyone’s unique differences.
Vision: our vision is to ensure that UCC is ‘best in county’ in all we do. Ofsted rated UCC as "Good" in April 2023. Subsequently, we were recognised as "Best Secondary School in Cumbria" at the annual NewsQuest Educational awards in October 2023.
Community: our wider community is incredibly supportive of our efforts. They value the relationships we develop with them and the wide variety of extra-curricular activities and other opportunities we offer.
About UCC
UCC is a larger than average 11–18 comprehensive school serving the biggest catchment area in England, including both rural and small urban populations.
We have been recognised as one of the most improved in the county and continue to strive for further progress.
We are currently housed in several buildings of varying age but grouped closely together, with adjacent playing fields across a large site in the heart of Penrith. We have, however, recently been named in the school rebuilding programme and anticipate a significant investment or new build in the near future.
Our staff
UCC is a welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter – our Staff Wellbeing group is an integral part of the school's culture. Our experienced, approachable senior leadership team has a clear vision for maintaining a responsive and professional working environment.
At UCC we invest heavily in staff development. We offer an outstanding programme of continuing professional development at all levels. Our excellent Early Careers Teacher (ECT) programme is supportive and professionally run.
We consider the well-being of colleagues in every development and encourage all to be fully involved in whole-school and departmental learning initiatives.
Our students
At UCC we pride ourselves on our fantastic students and on our curriculum offer, including for our sixth form.
The percentage of students with statements of special educational needs at UCC is around the national average and we are very proud to host a strategic facility for students who, in the main, have severe, profound or multiple learning difficulties.
The proportion of students who come from minority ethnic groups is very low at UCC, as is the percentage whose first language is not English, although this number has grown in recent years. The proportion eligible for free school meals is lower than the national average. Students come from a wide range of backgrounds, although the majority do not live in areas of significant social deprivation.
A large number of children use school transport; some travelling a considerable distance to reach school each day.
Our pastoral system
Our strong pastoral system is organised on a horizontal basis and most teachers are Form Tutors, in which important aspect of their work they are led and supported by Leaders of Achievement and Success.
These year-group teams deal with the academic progress, welfare and discipline of our students. Our Leaders of Achievement and Success maintain close working contact with parents and with external agencies, ensuring we do everything possible to enable all our students to succeed.
Join us
All those associated with UCC share my pride in being part of something bigger - something that will make a difference to all our students’ lives and set them on their own path to success irrespective of background or ability.
I hope this has provided you with some background and context – please visit the school website to find out even more about our wonderful school.
Stephen Gilby, Headteacher
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