Teacher of English (Maternity cover)
Parkside Community College
Cambridgeshire
- £32,850 - £48,050 per year
- New
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- PT1-6/EPT1-3
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 21 October 2024
Job overview
We are now recruiting for a talented Teacher of English to join our department. This post is for fixed term maternity cover from January until summer 2025.
We are looking for applications from new or experienced practitioners with excellent subject knowledge and who are able to promote their subject throughout the College with passion and commitment.
Candidates will be well supported by a strong department team and the work of the United Learning subject advisory team. Teaching will be underpinned by a robust, academic curriculum, assessment and a whole school approach to Teaching and Learning.
You will have the opportunity to teach students in Years 7 to 11 and will join a highly committed and successful team who support one another to succeed and have a shared interest in professional learning and development of the subject.
About Parkside Community College
‘This is a small school where pupils enrich their understanding of a much wider world’ – Ofsted, 2023
Parkside Community College is a small caring school situated in the very heart of Cambridge, with incredibly high expectations in all aspects of school life.
We are proud of our achievements in helping our students to thrive for excellence. Our GCSE performance in 2023 places us in the top 30 schools in England for progress. We are always looking to improve what we do. Our community helps us to remain a leading school in Cambridge and beyond. We expect all of our staff members, students, and parents to 'play their part' in making Parkside a great place to learn and to grow. We also place a great emphasis on our value of responsibility, on good citizenship and ethical decision-making in all years.
We are very proud to have again been judged 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in April 2023. The inspectors recognised that: ‘teachers are happy’; we provide regular training to equip teachers with strong subject knowledge; we collaborate with them to ensure their workload is manageable; and we have established a highly inclusive ethos where all are welcomed.
United Learning Cambridge Cluster
We are part of a cluster of schools within the United Learning group: The Galfrid School, Coleridge Community College, Trumpington Community College, Parkside Community College, and Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology.
We embrace United Learning aim to offer a life changing education to children and young people, and we work as a team to achieve more than any single school could.
We share knowledge and resource within the cluster and the group to simplify work processes and manage workloads to achieve excellent results while improving work-life balance. As a cluster and as a group, we can look after our staff better.
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