Teacher of Humanities (to work across our secondary schools)

Join our team to drive student excellence and foster a culture where every learner thrives.

About this role: Newham Community Learning Trust is seeking a dedicated Class Teacher to work across our secondary schools. You will be responsible for planning and delivering high-quality lessons that spark curiosity and a love of learning. We are looking for an educator who will foster a safe, inclusive, and stimulating classroom environment, ensuring that every student’s academic progress and personal development are at the heart of what they do. As part of a forward-thinking Trust, you will enjoy the opportunity to work collaboratively across our family of schools, engaging with colleagues, parents, and the wider Newham community to ensure every child has the opportunity to excel.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Attainment and Progress: Ensure all students, including those with SEND, make at least good progress across all of the key stages as defined by external and internal data. Use data effectively to track and monitor student progress. Ensure variations between the progress made by different groups of students, or any areas of under-achievement including the variation of groups of students, are addressed and the achievement gap is diminished. Ensure attainment of students is at least good when compared to national averages. Ensure all learners acquire knowledge of the curriculum quickly and in depth. Ensure all learners develop literacy, communication and numeracy skills.
• Teaching, Learning & Assessment: Meet all the professional standards for teachers. Teach and plan high-quality lessons in which students make at least good progress. Teach all students and key stages across the curriculum as required by the timetable. Deliver consistently strong lessons. Promote consistently high expectations of all students and apply whole-school policies. Acquire and maintain excellent and up-to-date subject knowledge. Assess students’ prior knowledge, skills and understanding accurately and use data to inform interventions. Systematically and effectively check students’ understanding throughout lessons, homework and over time through summative and formative assessment (in line with school assessment, marking and feedback policies). Use well-judged and imaginative teaching strategies to provide support and intervention to meet the needs of individual learners in order that they make at least good progress relative to their starting point. Promote and generate high levels of enthusiasm for, participation in and commitment to learning amongst all students. Promote students' confidence and independence so that they are able to tackle challenging activities and can display high levels of resilience.
• Personal Development, Behaviour and Welfare: Develop and promote effective partnerships with parents, carers, other staff and students so they are highly positive about the subject area in terms of achievement, teaching and learning, behaviour and safety. Take a lead role in establishing a positive learning environment within your own classroom in which students are able to make a positive contribution, learn and thrive in an atmosphere of dignity and respect. Ensure all students within the classroom show high levels of engagement, courtesy, collaboration and cooperation. Ensure all students taught within the classroom arrive punctually to lessons and learning time is maximised. To role model the highest standards of attendance and punctuality, and support and promote these high standards with students. Ensure student behaviour is managed through a systematic, consistent approach to behaviour management, in line with whole-school policy, within all lessons. Take active steps to eradicate all forms of bullying. Be aware of what constitutes an unsafe situation and know how to keep oneself and others safe.
• Leadership and Management: Demonstrate an uncompromising and highly effective drive to improve achievement, or sustain the highest level of achievement, for all students, over a sustained period of time. Lead by example and demonstrate passion and ambition for the school, subject and its students. Support the Curriculum Leader in self-evaluation activities. Support the Curriculum Leader with the production, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a subject development plan in line with the school priorities and the whole-school development plan. Focus relentlessly on improving the quality of teaching and learning and assessment within the classroom and ensure that it impacts on learners. Provide highly positive, memorable and rich experiences for high quality learning which contributes to student achievement within the subject area and their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Employ highly successful strategies for engaging with parents and carers. Employ highly effective strategies to improve achievement and progress by: seeking out and modelling best practice, reflecting on the quality of teaching, learning, behaviour and progress, being open to coaching, dialogue, mentoring and support. Seek regular feedback through line management and be positive and active in team meetings to allow for effective communication and dissemination. Take part in staff appraisal. Use appropriate strategies to tackle student underperformance and celebrate student achievements. Play an active role in quality assurance processes such as collaborative planning, work sampling, learning walks, student voice activities and lesson observations which allow for greater consistency in teaching and learning. Work effectively and positively with the curriculum team and other staff in the school. Meet the statutory requirements for safeguarding.
• General responsibilities: As a leader and manager in the classroom contribute to the overall leadership and management of the school and be proactive in supporting an ethos that recognises and celebrates success and promotes high expectations and aspirations. Tutoring an assigned tutor group and carrying out the duties in accordance with school policy. Contribute to the effective management of the school through the implementation of school policies and the code of conduct. To be a visible presence around the school. Attend meetings and parents’ meetings relevant to the post. Other duties as the Head may reasonably require.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY We are committed to and champion equality and diversity in all aspects of employment within the London Borough of Newham. All employees are expected to understand and promote equality and diversity in the course of their work.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and uphold all relevant procedures. Reference should be made to the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document and the National Standards for Teachers. It is a requirement that teachers meet these standards.