Teacher of English KS3/4

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Part time
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Job offered by: Gosforthacademy
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Category:
Closing Date:

22/01/2025 23:59

Interview Date:

TBC

Start Date:

February 2025

Establishment:

Jesmond Park Academy

Location:

Jesmond Park Academy

Salary:

£31,650 - £43,607

Department:

English

Job Type:

Part Time

Key Stage:

Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4

Contract Type:

Fixed Term (31/01/2026)

Contract Term:

TTO - Term time only

Hours per Week:

19.44

Weeks per Year:

52.000

Pay Grade:

Main Pay Scale | M1 - M6

ABOUT THE ACADEMY

Jesmond Park Academy is a thriving and fully subscribed comprehensive school servicing around 2,100 students from Year 7 to Sixth Form. Our academy has a real sense of community, occupying an iconic site and building equipped with exceptional resources. Our staff have a real passion for education in its broadest sense and we are committed to achieving the best for all of the students in our care, enabling them to make excellent progress and achieve their goals and dreams. Part of Gosforth Group, our academy has undergone a rapid period of change and improvement and continues striving to become one of Newcastle’s leading academies. We offer a positive working experience with an enthusiastic staff team focused on delivering our goals. If you genuinely desire to do the best for our students, want to be part of an already successful team and support us on our journey to becoming an outstanding academy - we want to hear from you.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will be accountable for the educational progress of learners in a designated class by effective teaching and learning and contribute to the monitoring and development of a curriculum area.

The candidate appointed will join a successful and supportive team of staff who regularly share good practice and provide a knowledge-based approach to learning. This is a fixed term post to cover maternity leave for up to one year.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking to appoint a well-qualified, enthusiastic and innovative Teacher of English on a part time basis, to teach KS3/4 from February 2025. There will also be a requirement to teach the reading programme. The post is suitable for ECTs. To find out more about the essential requirements to be successful in the role of Teacher of English, please review the person specification and ensure you evidence the essential requirements within your application.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

Generous annual leave

Benefits including; excellent pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, free on-site parking

An opportunity to work with highly-skilled professionals

Enthusiastic and motivated students

An exciting and extensive commitment to professional development

A school with its community at heart

An exciting programme of staff well-being activities

Wider career development opportunities to be involved across the Gosforth Group

If you would like to discuss this vacancy further or would like an informal visit of the school, please contact Jennifer Allsopp email jallsopp@jesmondparkacademy.org.uk or telephone 0191 2818486.

Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received, and so early application is encouraged. We reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.

Following the shortlisting process, where applicable, candidates who attend interview will be reimbursed reasonable expenses for travel and accommodation.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the

DBS filtering guide

and you can view our

Policy on the Employment of Ex-offenders here .

Gosforth Group are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. References will be requested prior to interview for those candidates shortlisted. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, along with other relevant pre-employment checks.

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