Start date: As soon as possible
End date: April 2025
Location: South Gloucestershire
Hours: Full time (potentially flexible)
Salary/rate: Daily rate to be determined
School details:
QT Education seek an English specialist for a secondary academy converter school in South Gloucestershire. This school has gone through much change over the years and is now proud to be rated ‘good’ by Ofsted. A mixed 11 to 16 school with approximate 1000 students on roll.
Role:
- Responsible for teaching KS3 English
- To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher
- To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential
- To contribute to raising standards of student attainment
- To share and support the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth
- Create a positive learning environment
- Use a wide range of teaching and learning strategies that will stimulate learning
- Prepare lessons which meet the learning needs of students
- Actively contribute to events
- Contribute and respond to departmental plans
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of lessons, schemes of learning
Experience, Qualifications and Training:
- We seek a qualified and enthusiastic teacher of English
- Must be appropriately qualified – QTS, QTLS, PGCE or equivalent
- Up to date Safeguarding training issued in the last year (desirable however not essential). Training will be provided.
- Suitable role for experienced teachers and early career teachers (ECT)
Skills, Abilities and Attributes:
- A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Good teaching skills
- A passion for English
- A commitment to pastoral care
- An ability to develop good working relationships with students and staff
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Enthusiastic about working with young people
- Good organisational and personal management skills
- High expectations of all students
- Self-reliant
- Good ICT skills
- Good time management
Eligibility to work in a teaching role:
- Holds Right to Work in the UK
- Provide two professional child related references that cover the last two years
- Enhanced DBS with Barred List check certificate which is either on the online ‘Update Service’ or be willing to apply for a new DBS certificate
QT Education is dedicated to the safeguarding and promotion of children’s welfare. The suitability to work with children and young people is integral to the selection process. Applicants are required to undergo comprehensive child protection screening, which includes checks with previous employers, online searches, enhanced DBS and barred list checks.
All appointments are contingent upon thorough vetting. Applying for a role is an offence if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activities involving children. This teaching post is exempt from Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
How to apply:
- If you would like to find out further information regarding this role or similar positions within the South West, please forward your CV to QT Education today.
Why work with QT Education:
- We are a family-owned business, we ensure both schools and teachers are treated as we would want to be treated ourselves!
- We specialise and work exclusively with Secondary Qualified Teachers in the South West. As highly experienced Education Recruiters in the South West, we use our expertise to secure you local work, specific to your individual requirements
- We offer a local and personalised service; we place you at the heart of the recruitment process
- Our rates of pay compare favourably to other agencies in the South West and we pay our teachers via PAYE (not via umbrella companies)
- All processes of the business are managed internally, as a result, we are highly efficient
What do Teachers that have worked with us before have to say?
“QT Education is the best agency I have ever engaged with. They always respond to text messages/calls quickly and keep me updated. The staff at QT Education are always so friendly, accommodating and honest”
“It is a pleasure to work with such a successful, friendly and efficient agency”
“I have worked for other agencies and QT is the best agency that I have worked for, some of the other agencies I would prefer not to work for again”
“I have been working with QT for around 6 months and it has been a refreshing change, I have enjoyed an honest and transparent approach. Please keep it up”