Teacher - English (Maternity Cover)
The Elizabethan Academy
Nottinghamshire
- New
- Salary:
- MPS / UPR
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- February 2025
- Apply by:
- 11 October 2024
Job overview
Teacher of English
MPS / UPR
February 2025
Full Time or Flexible Working Options available
Maternity Cover
We are seeking to appoint a committed and dynamic teacher of English to join our team for a maternity cover.
We are a successful 11-19 stand-alone academy where our school community benefits from excellent facilities in our modern and purpose-built school. We are looking for candidates who share our commitment and determination to providing a learning environment that enables all young people to thrive.
Our most recent OFSTED inspection (February 2024) saw the academy judged as ‘Good’.
We offer extensive professional development opportunities with a structured path to enable progression at every stage of your career. This includes leadership training, secondments at other schools, coaching and mentoring. We also support our staff undertaking NPQ’s. We are proud to be a “Brilliant School” and have recently been awarded the Wellbeing Award for Schools. Our succession planning strategy seeks to provide a variety of leadership opportunities from temporary projects to secondments.
The successful candidate will join a hardworking, forward thinking and supportive department.
Our ideal candidate will:
- embrace our ethos and passion for our 3 R’s of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience.
- be excited about teaching English and committed to achieving excellent results for their students.
- demonstrate high levels of ambition and optimism regarding what the academy and every single student can achieve.
- have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of pupils, be that as Form Tutor, through extra-curricular activities or leading an enrichment session on a more unique topic which ignites your passion.
An ability to teach KS4/5 Media would be an advantage but is not essential.
We are seeking a candidate who will be able to start the position from February half term, however for the right candidate a Christmas start may be a possibility if they are prepared to undertake general cover work.
The Academy is committed to equality of experience for all staff and students. We operate safer recruitment, robust child protection procedures and require evidence of DBS clearance for all employees. Checks will also be made with previous employers. Please read our Information for Candidates for additional information.
Please apply by sending your completed application and cover letter to HR Manager, Helen Upson by post or email at upsonh@elizabethan.notts.sch.uk You can contact Helen with any queries or for application assistance by email or on the telephone - 01777 713705
Visits to our Academy are warmly welcomed by appointment.
Closing date for applications 9am on Friday 11th October 2024
Interviews taking place as soon as possible thereafter
Attached documents
About The Elizabethan Academy
The Elizabethan Academy is a very successful 11-18 school located in Retford in North Nottinghamshire. This area is a most attractive rural location with a good range of housing. Retford is a chartered market town with a population of some 25,000 inhabitants in an attractive rural setting. The town is close to the A1 and the M1. Sheffield, Lincoln, Doncaster and the Peak District can all be reached within the hour. Leeds, Nottingham and the Yorkshire Dales take just over an hour.
The Academy is very popular within the local community and has currently 1,200 students. It draws students from 9 “family” feeder schools in the town and surrounding villages but through parental choice we take in from over 30 primary schools. In 2024 the school was graded “Good” by OFSTED. We converted to a stand-alone Academy on 1 April 2012.
In April 2007, we moved into brand new purpose-built accommodation as part of a PFI project for 6 schools in Bassetlaw. Year 7 to 13 are housed together in purpose-built accommodation, organised into Faculty areas. Facilities for Science, Technology, the Expressive Arts and Sport are excellent. We were excited to have officially opened our 9-metre-high climbing wall in 2021! Thanks to funding from Sport England, the wall is available for use of all students as well being available to hire, offering an exciting new sport to local Bassetlaw people.
We offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities to enrich the curriculum for our students. We have excellent links with the business community and are well supported by local companies and community groups.
Our core values of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience (3R’S) reflect our ethos. Respect is one of the cornerstones of the Elizabethan: respect for others’ beliefs and respect for others’ differences. Just as critical, however, is self-respect and self-discipline. Students are expected and taught to take responsibility for their actions and their learning.
Our students must also be effective team players and independent learners.
Building student resilience is vital to support student mental health and well-being. They need confidence, courage, and self-belief to show strength of character when things aren’t successful, preparing them for society.
The Academy’s ethos is evident at every level of the organisation : staff, students, parents and governors are committed to valuing each person as a unique individual. We believe that every child can be successful and that the role of adults is to give them the confidence that anything is possible.
As a learning community, we value the contribution that everyone makes to maintaining high quality in teaching and learning. Therefore, all staff who join our Academy can expect a thorough and supportive induction programme when they join us, and will be expected to develop both professionally and personally.
“The Elizabethan Academy is an inclusive school. The school has high expectations of how pupils should behave and what they can achieve” (Ofsted 2024)
Web:
http://www.elizabethan.notts.sch.uk
General Enquiries:
office@elizabethan.notts.sch.uk
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/elizabethanac
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TheElizabethanAcademy
The Elizabethan Academy Trust is an exempt charity and a company limited by guarantee, registered in England with Company Number 7964360 and has a registered office at Hallcroft Road, Retford, Notts. DN22 7PY.
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