Class Teacher with Computing Leadership (Key Stage 2 - Age 7-11)

We are looking for an inspirational, committed and highly effective teacher to provide the highest quality teaching and learning opportunities for our children, ensuring they achieve success and progress in relation to their potential.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with an absolute love for teaching who wants to gain valuable experience and professional development in an environment that provides many opportunities in curriculum development, leadership, with an ethos of embracing new ideas and challenges. 

If you have a real enthusiasm to work with children and have either recently qualified as an NQT, or have years of experience as a QTS and you are excited by the prospect of joining our fantastic team of staff, I look forward to hearing from you.

KEY TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Plan, prepare and deliver relevant and challenging lessons based on engaging and bespoke schemes of work. 
• Themes should link with topic-based learning used by class teachers. 
• Liaise with other class teachers and other subject specialists to ensure teaching is differentiated and age appropriate, using the framework of the National Curriculum to ensure that all children experience a broad, balanced, relevant and stimulating curriculum.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• identifying clear learning objectives and specifying how they will be taught and assessed; 
• setting tasks which challenge pupils and ensure high levels of interest; 
• setting appropriately challenging expectations; 
• setting clear targets, building on prior attainment; 
• providing clear structures for lessons, maintaining pace, motivation and challenge; 
• maintaining discipline in accordance with the school’s procedures and encouraging good practice with regard to punctuality, behaviour, and standards of work; 
• using a variety of teaching methods to match approach to content and to the needs of the pupils; 
• presenting key ideas using appropriate vocabulary; 
• using effective questioning, listening carefully to pupils, giving attention to errors and misconceptions; 
• evaluating own teaching critically to improve effectiveness.

COMPUTING LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES:

To take responsibility for planning, implementing and assessing an appropriate programme of study for Computing, ensuring there are plenty of opportunities for children to complete practical tasks to experience ‘hands-on’ learning. Computing lessons should be challenging with children inquisitive and supported with the safe, sensible and confident approach in using computing applications, where children are inspired to find out and test their understanding and ideas wherever possible.

Exploring different ways of delivering a thorough and comprehensive computing curriculum, linking with others subject areas that can be used to engage pupils and enhance their learning.

Use an array of different digital media within the coverage of the ICT curriculum, from video, audio editing, to uploading content to shared folders. Supporting the ‘Ranby News’ enrichment club to provide pupils experience of using technology to communicate in different ways.

Pupils should be taught to use the school’s network and all relevant applications within Office 365 (and MS Teams) competently, enabling them to email, upload, download and access information and documents effectively.

The Vacancy 

Post Title:                Class Teacher (with Computing Leadership)

Responsible To:       Deputy Head / Headmaster

Contract Type:        Permanent

Commencement:   January 2025

Hours of work:        Full Time

Salary:                       In accordance with school’s pay scale, relevant to experience and qualifications.

Working hours:

Teaching staff are expected to view contract times as core hours only and are expected to commit to as much additional time as needed to complete the role, to meet the needs and expectations of this post. This is a role requiring a commitment to work some evenings and weekends as all staff are expected to complete duties, clubs/activities, staff/department meetings, INSET days, department preparation and planning, as well as special school events, eg parents’ evenings and open days. 

Applications

Online applications should be made by all applicants via the application form through https://www.tes.com/jobs, outlining the reasons why you are interested in the role and to demonstrate how you meet the role and responsibilities outlined within the job description. CVs may be sent in addition to, but not instead of the completed application form.

Safeguarding & Child Protection 

Successful candidate for this post must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including, but not limited to, reference checks with previous employers, prohibition checks and a criminal record check via the Applicants Disclosure and Barring Service (including Barred List Check). 

All offers of employment are conditional upon the satisfactory outcome of child protection screening checks. 

DISCLOSURES 

We will appoint, train, develop and promote on the basis of merit and ability alone. It is a stipulation of the Governors and a statutory requirement that members of staff appointed to Worksop College should be shown not to have any criminal record which might prevent them accepting a post at the College. Accordingly, the College requires permission from all members of staff to make an appropriate investigation. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory outcome of this enquiry. 

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES 

Worksop College & Ranby House is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to a policy of treating all our employees and job applicants equally. It is our policy to take all reasonable steps to employ and promote employees on the basis of their abilities and qualifications without regard to age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, marital or civil partnership status, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), sexual orientation, trade union membership, religion or belief.