Teacher of Business Studies
Southgate School
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- £36,413 - £53,994 per year
- Salary:
- Plus a £3000 recruitment incentive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter, July or September 2025
- Apply by:
- 11 December 2024
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding practitioner with excellent subject knowledge and communication skills to join our successful Business Studies department.
Southgate School wishes to attract a high-quality applicant who can support the Head of Department through the next phase of its development.
Therefore, a £3000 recruitment incentive payment will be available for a successful candidate applying directly to Southgate School. This is payable after a qualifying period of two full terms in post and includes a 2-year retention period.
The department teaches a wide range of Business courses, including GCSE, A Level and Vocational OCR at Level 2 and 3. Business Studies is a popular subject at both key stages in the school and achieves some of the best student outcomes. We want a reflective practitioner and somebody who is able to build on their strengths in teaching Business Studies as the department strives to act as a beacon of excellence in the Trust. The successful candidate will play a key role and support the Head of department in implementing the Department’s Improvement plans, while exhibiting Quality First Teaching and adhering to the School's stated vision and values. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate an ability to inspire a love of learning and teach creatively. You will be supported by outstanding colleagues who know and understand the school and will ensure that the journey to Outstanding is a collaborative one. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and forward-looking individual and we welcome your application.
Why work at Southgate School
- You will be joining a highly successful school with a national profile of excellence in teaching and learning, teacher training and student outcomes
- We will provide you with exceptional support and provide excellent opportunities such as access to the Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP), National Professional Qualifications in Behaviour and Culture and Leading Teaching Development
- All teachers can access professional development opportunities tailored for their level of career development. As part of this, we offer fully funded teaching CPD opportunities, such as, The Outstanding Teacher Programme and all the National Professional Qualifications on site
Staff Development and Talent Management
Staff at Southgate School have access to a wide range of CPD as part of our Staff Development and Talent Management Programmes through Middlesex Learning Trust. Over the last academic year, this has included:
- Access to NPQs in Behaviour and Culture, Leading Teaching, Teacher Development and Senior Leadership
- Regular Show and Share sessions for all teaching staff, providing opportunities for staff to come together to share teaching and learning strategies.
- Weekly CPD sessions for Early Career Teachers
- Access to the MLT Teaching and Learning Handbook, which sets out our shared principles for curriculum planning and implementation across the Trust as well as to termly publications of the MLT Teacher magazine, which staff from across the trust contribute to, looking at a wide range of topics. Recent topics have included ‘How Students Learn’ with a focus on cognitive science, ‘Closing the gap’ between all student groups as well as ‘Challenge, High-Expectations and Inclusion’ to ensure Excellence for All
- Development of subject specific pedagogical expertise through cross-school sharing of best practice and structured opportunities for developing subject knowledge with departments, for example through the development of a process for subject-specific reviews
- Peer review activities, including a Challenge Partners Quality Assurance Review
- Opportunities for observing and shadowing practice across Trust academies
- Where applicable, scheduling joint moderation is used across the trust as an opportunity to share practice and enable dialogue between departments
- Launched in 2021, the new MLT Talent Management has been implemented to support retention of our staff and provide clear career pathways within the Trust. Through this talent management framework, MLT is able to identify and utilise the best practitioners and leaders to coach and/or mentor across the MAT. There are 3 tiers, each of which are linked to the corresponding NPQs.
Location and Benefits
Southgate School is situated in the London Borough of Enfield (Outer London). It has excellent transport links. We are five minutes away from Oakwood Tube Station (Piccadilly Line). Central London is only 20 minutes away. We have parking on site and are also very well-connected by local bus routes.
There is a wide variety of property within easy reach. Additionally, there are plenty of shopping facilities, entertainment and recreational facilities nearby.
We offer:
- A great school with committed staff and motivated students
- Training and development including the Trusts Talent Management Framework
- Free on-site parking
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Free health suite
- Two week October half term break
About Southgate School
Southgate School is an extremely popular and oversubscribed school with an excellent reputation in Cockfosters, North London. Our school is on the border of Barnet and Enfield, a relatively prosperous area that falls within the Outer London weighting for teachers. Every year our examination results demonstrate high performance at all levels and significantly above national outcomes. Our students either go to their first choice of university or to high quality apprenticeships. We support all aspects of the curriculum and are particularly proud of our high-profile performing arts: our regular music concerts, drama performances and art exhibitions from our talented students.
We have an established reputation for academic excellence and the quality of our pastoral care, with visitors always commenting on the happy atmosphere. Ofsted noted in 2019 that all students they met agreed: “There is never a day that I don’t want to come to school.”
We are part of Middlesex Learning Trust (MLT) – a Multi-Academy Trust consisting of three large secondary schools. The key purpose of MLT is to deliver the best possible education for our students, to enable them to maximise their progress, academically, socially and emotionally, ready to take their place in society as positive and successful adults. The Trust and its schools have a long history of maximising the potential of every child. Within the Trust, there is a profound commitment to fostering high aspirations in all students in order to secure the very best outcomes for them regardless of their background. We are committed to this moral purpose and support each other to secure the very best educational outcomes. Collaboration lies at the heart of Teaching and Learning within the Trust, with opportunities for shared professional development, planning, research and moderation that strengthens the Teaching and Learning in individual schools. An MLT Teacher magazine is published four times a year showcasing best practice within Trust schools, and an evidence-informed Trust Teaching and Learning Handbook is used across the schools to support excellent and up-to-date classroom practice. A Talent Management Framework is also in place to support staff development which includes residency opportunities within and across Trust schools. http://www.middlesexlearningtrust.org.uk/
Teaching and Learning at Southgate School is focused on our ‘Non-negotiables’, the five pillars of quality first teaching at Southgate School. These include high quality questioning, challenge for all, high impact feedback, metacognition and clear objectives and outcomes. We encourage students to be independent and to aim high; we make sure students feel consistently challenged as we know that they learn well and make most progress when they are thinking hard. Our Teaching and Learning Team are dedicated to supporting teachers to improve their practice with regular inspiring training and strategies based on current research in the education community. We encourage teachers to develop and show off their ideas and expertise with our regular Show and Share sessions, sharing good practice with all staff. We also offer the suite of NPQs to our staff including the NPQSL, NPQLT and NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture, working with a lead provider Ambition. The MLT Talent Management Framework supports teachers at all stages of their careers and offers them a wide range of opportunities to develop.
Our induction for new staff is supportive and ambitious: all new staff receive training on our ‘Non-negotiables’, our school vision of Excellence For All, as well as what it means to be a member of staff at our school. We then offer a programme of training sessions for our new teachers as well as teachers from the thirteen schools that are part of the Southgate Learning Alliance. We work with Ambition and the North West London Teaching School Hub to support ECTs in their first years of teaching to make sure teachers new to the profession make the most of the fantastic training resources provided as well as offering high quality coaching and mentoring from our experienced and dedicated team.
We are a welcoming school community where colleagues are valued and supported. Our recent staff survey showed that overwhelmingly staff are pleased with the work environment and the leadership of their school; our aim is that our staff enjoy their work. However, it is the students themselves who really make the school a pleasure to work in. Time and again they are our best ambassadors: young people who want to get on in life and who take their learning seriously. They are at the heart of all that we strive to do.
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