Teacher Of Mathematics

Hours: 36.5

Contract Type: Permanent

Moseley School

College Road

Springfield

Birmingham

B13 9UU

Start Date: 1 September 2024

We are looking for a dynamic, passionate Teacher of Mathematics to join our maths team to help make a positive impact on the young people at our school. Maths is one of the largest faculties within the school, compromising of 12 teaching staff and a focused specialist intervention coach. We make great progress with our students and would like to expand our team to ensure we continue to develop our students to the best of their ability. We are a welcoming team that strive to provide an inclusive and supportive environment for our students and staff alike.
We have new smart screen boards in every classroom, we have an extensive whole school CPD program including focused specific maths training for all staff to support numeracy across the school.
Our perfect teaching candidate will:

• be a consistently good to outstanding practitioner
• be committed to exceptional standards of teaching and learning
• be able to motivate, challenge and inspire students to achieve their best
• be able to establish and develop outstanding relationships with students and staff
• help us to build on already good Mathematics results
• contribute to our core vision and values

Core Purpose:
To ensure that students make positive progress against prior attainment, by ensuring that teaching is consistently of a high quality, progress is monitored, and appropriate measures are taken to address any areas of underachievement.
Responsibilities for all teachers:

• meet the relevant Teachers’ Standards•
• promote the values and aims of the school
• follow all relevant school policies
• to be aware of, and assume the appropriate level of responsibility for, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and to report any concerns in accordance with the school’s safeguarding policies
• create and maintain effective partnerships with parents and carers
• treat students, parents and colleagues fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect
• to comply with the school’s Health & Safety policy and statutory requirements
• plan lessons and sequences of lessons, ensuring lessons have pace and variety, that learning is personalised to meet individual learning needs and that teaching caters for the full range of learning styles of students
• ensure that teaching reflects the diversity of backgrounds of students and promotes mutual respect
• contribute to regular curriculum review to help maintain a relevant, stimulating and innovative curriculum provision
• take responsibility for personal continuing professional development to ensure that knowledge and skills are kept up to date with respect to subject(s), pedagogy and curriculum developments plus wider school, local and national issues
• assess progress of students in line with policy and records to ensure regular feedback and encouragement is given to students to take responsibility for their own learning
• instigate measures to address the causes of identified underperformance and monitor the effectiveness of those measures
• submit assessments to the school database, and complete students’ reports for parents’ consultation deadlines in school calendar, ensuring they provide an accurate record of the progress of each individual and meeting high quality standards
• complete registers to monitor attendance and punctuality and take action to address any issues
• utilise appropriate behaviour management strategies in lessons in line with school policy
• participate in lesson observation and other measures to monitor delivery of learning outcomes and quality of teaching and implement measures to address any improvement issues identified
• participate in the appraisal process, identifying personal professional development priorities which will impact on students’ learning

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. 

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions.

Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.

Closing Date: 8 April 2024, 9:00am

How to Apply:

To apply for this role please visit our school website recruitment page; https://www.moseley.bham.sch.uk/
If you have any questions regarding this role or the school please contact the Recruitment Team via email on recruitment@moseley.bham.sch.uk