About the Role
General Responsibilities
- To support and apply the aims and ethos of the College.
- To follow agreed policies for communication within the College
- To comply with the College’s Health and Safety policy.
- To promote equal opportunities within the College and to seek to ensure the implementation of the College’s Equal Opportunities policy.
- To promote the Every Child Matters agenda
- To maintain up to date information that may be used for management purposes (including the College Self-Evaluation Form and Faculty Self-Evaluation Form and Improvement Plan).
- To comply with other College, faculty and departmental documentation and procedures as appropriate.
- To attend College public events, including Open Evening, Mass for the Feast of St Edward and Founders’ Day.
- To attend relevant parent/subject teacher review meetings.
- To complete cover for absent colleagues in accordance with national guidelines.
- To complete appropriate supervisory duties, as per the Rota, during break time, lunchtime, before school and after school.
Academic / Curriculum Responsibilities
a) Pupils To adopt a range of methods to teach, according to their educational needs, pupils assigned to allocated classes, including the setting and marking of work in accordance with College policy. To make appropriate use of the College rewards system to recognise and encourage good effort by pupils. To maintain discipline in accordance with the College’s Behaviour and Discipline Policy and apply appropriate and effective measures in cases of misbehaviour. To promote good pupil practice with regard to punctuality, standards of work and uniform regulations. To monitor the progress of pupils and maintain up to date records. To contribute towards the process of target setting within the department. To ensure pupils are regularly assessed in accordance with College policy. To report pupil progress to parents using the College reporting system. To prepare pupils for external examinations. To take attendance registers for all lessons. To raise, where appropriate, concerns over pupil progress (group or individual).
b) Curriculum To maintain up to date subject knowledge. To plan lessons and prepare appropriate resources, matched to learning objectives. To make appropriate and effective use of ICT to deliver the curriculum and promote the use of ICT amongst pupils.
c) Resources To assist the Head of Faculty / Department in identifying resource needs and contribute to the effective and efficient use of physical resources. To cooperate with other staff in ensuring a sharing and effective usage of resources to the benefit of the College, the department and pupils. To take responsibility for teaching resources used during lessons.
d) Staff Where appropriate, to support the work of trainee teachers and newly qualified teachers. Where relevant, to provide appropriate direction to Learning Support Assistants. To attend departmental and faculty meetings and contribute towards departmental development.
e) Development To undergo Performance Management, as laid down in the College Performance Management Policy. To participate in regular in-service training (INSET) as part of continuing professional development.
Pastoral Responsibilities
Classroom teachers are expected to undertake the role of form tutor and as such will have responsibility for the following:
- To mark an attendance register and monitor pupils’ attendance and punctuality.
- To pursue parental authorisation for absences and amend registers as appropriate.
- To commence each morning with a daily act of worship, which is recognisably Catholic in character.
- To deliver the Personal Development programmes in keeping with published schemes of work.
- To prepare and deliver year group assemblies as per the published Rota.
- To write pastoral and Citizenship reports.
- To keep a record of rewards and sanctions received by members of the form group.
- To liaise with subject staff and Head of Year to improve achievement and help resolve academic difficulties, as appropriate.
- To provide pastoral support and guidance to ensure the pastoral welfare of members of the form group.
- To liaise with parents as appropriate.
- To attend relevant pastoral meetings.
- To attend Parent / Form Teacher Review meetings as appropriate.
- To write personal references for pupils (for example, UCAS references in Year 13).
Personal Qualities
We are seeking to appoint an energetic, innovative and hardworking Teacher of Food Technology to join the department and inspire pupils and students.
The successful candidate will be:
- An experienced teacher of Food and Design Technology across the age and ability range, with a track record of high achievement (both raw and value added scores) at GCSE and A Level.
- Well qualified, enthusiastic, innovative and passionate about the study of Food and Design Technology.
- Willing to develop the particularly valuable extra-curricular side of Food and Design Technology.
- Willing to teach KS3 Design.
How to Apply
Applications should be made to the Principal, Lee Fabia, using the College application form (a CV may be submitted as well, but no application can be accepted without the College application form completed in full), accompanied by a hand written letter no longer than three sides of A4. Apply by post to: Lee Fabia Principal St Edward’s College Sandfield Park Liverpool, L12 1LF Or apply by email to: recruitment@st-edwards.co.uk