Teacher of Geography and Humanities

Q3 Academy Tipton works to ensure that all students and staff achieve \’Incredible things\’. Our mission for everybody who works in or with our school is to: Know More, Do More and Achieve More. This is supported by our values of Kindness, Ambition, Resilience and Respect.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for adding value to every learner in each teaching group benchmarked against national criteria and data.
• Delivering, planning, and preparing lessons in accordance with the planned curriculum.
• Contribution to curriculum design within English.
• Working as part of an incredible team that ensures creative and innovative learning and teaching occurs in every lesson.
• Being a Form Tutor.
• Supporting Documents for Teacher of English.
• We are in an exciting position where we look to grow our English department in order to provide more opportunity for reading development across the school. The successful candidate will be joining an established and cohesive team of colleagues, with good links across other schools as part of the Mercian Academy Trust, with excellent opportunities for development.

Qualifications and Experience

If you are a dynamic, supportive, and inspiring teacher who has experience in curriculum planning and delivery of English across Key Stages 3‑5, we want to hear from you. You are an incredible teacher who is passionate about your subject and able to inspire and motivate students to learn. Your passion for English, literacy and reading is demonstrated in your daily work and you are willing to contribute to wider curriculum opportunity for students to further engage and support them in the subject.

• Ambition for all students to achieve incredible things, particularly inspiring their interest and supporting development of skills and knowledge in English.
• Resilience to adapt and support all students in achieving in English.
• Ambition for your own development and learning. All teaching staff are provided with additional non‑contact time specifically for personal‑development.
• Incredible subject knowledge.
• The ability to understand and work with assessment data to monitor and intervene as appropriate with students.

This position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check (formerly CRB). Further details regarding this check are available from the school or by visiting www.crb.gov.uk.

Benefits

• Access to Health Care schemes through the Mercian Academy Trust.
• Birthday day paid leave of absence to celebrate your special day or use for something else (subject to attendance measures).
• Additional non‑contact time beyond 10% PPA to support your own self‑development and workload.
• Prioritisation of workload reduction in teaching.
• A supportive environment that focuses on all members of our community achieving their best.
• Regular celebration of achievement for both students and staff.
• Opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from a wide range of settings including grammar schools and a-typical settings.
• A motivated and supportive staff body who prioritise students\’ achievement.
• Students who are kind, ambitious, resilient and respectful, working within well established systems allowing focus on teaching.