Teacher of English

MPS/UPS £30,000—£46,525 (Recruitment &  Retention allowance will be offered for right candidate)

Start date: September or Easter

Closing date: midday, Monday 25th March 2024

The Duston School is looking to appoint a Teacher for English. This is an exciting time to join our successful English faculty teaching all key stages including post 16. We aim to ensure that our pupils become responsible, competent, confident and build skills relevant to today’s society.

We welcome applications from qualified teachers, who can demonstrate the highest standards of delivery in order to raise attainment and are committed to motivating young people.  We welcome applications from ECT’s as well as  experienced applicants.

Do you want to work in a hugely successful and dramatically transformed school? Do you want to work in a school that operates on common sense and places people at the centre of all that is does?

In joining the Duston School you will be joining a school that is:

· Built upon strong values and principles

· Places people at the heart of all that it does

· Heavily over-subscribed

· Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded

· A Behaviour Hub Lead School

 The 27^th most improved school nationally, with GCSE outcomes in 2019 placing the school in the top 20% of all schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools

 GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2022 were the best in the school’s history

· A school of Character

· An Investors in People Gold School

· An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School

· A Global Equality Collective School

· The home of ResearchED Northampton

· A PKC Curriculum Hub

· An Ofsted ‘Good’ school

 

The school offers competitive working conditions and packages, including:

· Future progression resides at the heart of the school’s ethos

· Personalised and bespoke CPD is offered to all staff

· Opportunities to attend external CPD courses and visiting other schools are positively encouraged

· An enhanced induction programme to support all new staff to the school, with a bespoke package of support for ECT’s.

· Westfield Health - Private Health Plan for permanent, salaried employees

· On-site car parking

· A laptop

· A detailed Workload Charters, which sets out the school’s commitment to support all staff with their workload

· No emails are sent at weekends nor holidays, we respect as a school the need to rest

· Co-planning is a guiding principle upon which our curriculum is built, with the use of workbooks and knowledge organisers across the school

· On-site restaurant for staff to use on a daily basis

· The lion share of directed meeting time is handed to staff to work on the curriculum

· Two faculty away days

· 4 traded days (which includes one day off to thank staff for the extra miles that they go)

· A priority place for staff children at the school

· Face-to-face meetings for all staff with the Principal to discuss your wellbeing, professional development and career aspirations

· Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme for teaching staff

· Membership of the LGPS Pension Scheme for non-teaching staff

For support staff 

· Generous Holiday entitlement, including bank holidays (or pro-rata of) which increases with service

Candidates are welcome to visit the school prior to application