Teacher of Science in Long Eaton

We warmly welcome and encourage potential applicants to visit LFCD. Should you wish to discuss the role further or visit LFCD please contact Dan Bloomfield (Assistant Principal) by email [email protected] who will be happy to assist.

• Meets the needs of all learners, taking into account the individual requirements of each student.
• Ensures effective and consistent implementation of the curriculum
• Fulfils the demands of the relevant specifications, tutor guides and college ethos.
• Makes a positive impact on student attainment and achievement.

Work with other staff in contributing to student learning including:

• Supporting students outside their timetabled learning sessions through support clinics and tutorials.
• Enhancing students' experience of Science through involvement in enrichment activities.
• Attend Science team meetings.
• Working with other staff to enhance the curriculum, innovate new ideas to improve student outcomes and provide wider enriching experiences for students.

Assessment and Reporting:

• Provide students with regular, incisive feedback in response to their written work, in line with college policies.
• Ensure regular formative assessment takes place to address knowledge gaps.
• Ensure that marking, recording and reporting are in line with school policies.
• Be able to accurately assess each learning groups' levels of attainment against student targets and national benchmarks.

Fulfil wider professional responsibilities including:

• Set and maintain high standards, expectations and aspirations for both staff and students, ensuring they are treated with dignity and respect and that they receive appropriate guidance, support and recognition.
• Maintain a safe and well-ordered learning environment, safeguarding students' health and safety, managing behaviour effectively and rewarding success appropriately.
• Actively seek opportunities for professional development to further enhance pedagogy and practice, and keep up to date with curriculum and qualification changes.
• Be creative and hardworking.
• Have excellent personal organisational and leadership skills.
• Be adaptable with a good sense of humour and able to take the initiative.
• Be a very good team worker with the capacity to build relationships at all levels across the organisation.
• Be prepared to contribute to broad aspects of Science.
• Be proactive; a forward thinker with an effective grasp of developments within Science.
• Be able to work successfully as part of a highly effective and successful team.

Qualifications and experience:

• A graduate with qualified teacher status.
• A strong teacher of Science- this post is also suitable for ECTs.
• Relevant qualifications (both formal and through appropriate experience) to meet the challenge of the appointment.
• Excellent in-depth knowledge of the place of the Science curriculum in the development of young people and of the place of within the wider curriculum.
• An understanding of the importance of a rigorous reading strategy to ensure students' confidence and reading fluency.

We are seeking an enthusiastic teacher of Science who is committed to a practical approach to the teaching of Science across the Key Stages. The successful candidate must be able (or have the potential) to teach to GCSE and A level standard.

Science is extremely well taught across all Key Stages including sixth form education with students reaching high levels of achievement.

Duties of role will include:

• To be able to secure high standards of learning and achievement across the full ability range at Key Stage 3, 4 and 5
• To be able to demonstrate excellent subject knowledge
• To be able to demonstrate a good working knowledge and understanding the curriculum and of a range of teaching, learning and assessment strategies and know how to use them to provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential
• To have high expectations of young people
• To be prepared to contribute to broad aspects of Science within the school.
• To be able to work effectively as part of a team, to identify opportunities for sharing good practice

Landau Forte Charitable Trust is a family of six Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form Academies across the Midlands. Established in 1989, our roots as a charity lie in the global finance and hospitality industries, with our founders Martin Landau and Rocco Forte. Their values combine in how our schools look after their children and young people; they aspire to a world-leading standard of innovation, entrepreneurship, service and care.

We believe a brilliant education should be central to the development of every child and young person. Their learning, wellbeing and happiness is at the centre of every decision we take and every pound we spend.

Landau Forte College Derby

Landau Forte College Derby is a highly successful and heavily oversubscribed 11 - 19 school with a strong record of success across all aspects of its work. We are an inclusive and diverse school and we hold outstanding teaching and learning at the centre of everything we do. We aim to inspire, engage and challenge all our young people, regardless of background, to be the best that they can be. We have the highest expectations of all in a supportive, happy and welcoming environment. Our students are active, responsible citizens, ready to make a difference in the local, national and global community.

• A supportive, cohesive and exciting working environment - Landau Forte College Derby is a great school!
• The chance to work with genuinely enthusiastic and happy students
• Career prospects within an innovative and ambitious Multi Academy Trust
• A meal allowance, commensurate with your working hours
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS)
• Healthcare Cash Plan, from Westfield Health

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