Teacher of Humanities

We are looking for a Teacher of Humanities. This is an exciting opportunity to join Blaise High School and become an integral member of the Humanities team.

The Humanities team embodies our values and ethos, they ensure that teaching and learning practices are research led, they provide engaging content through explicit instruction, and ensure that students make progress through a coherent curriculum that is increasingly delivered through booklets.

The school teaches History, Geography and Religious Studies to students throughout KS3 and KS4, and the successful candidate will have specific expertise in at least one of these areas, with the willingness to be able to teach across multiple of them.

The successful candidate will join a team who are passionate about ensuring that Blaise High School regularly attains outcomes that put the school in the top 1% of schools in the country. We are looking to recruit a colleague with both the commitment and relevant skills to drive our raising standards agenda for every child in the school.

Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character.

We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are 'Always Learning'.

• To teach consistently high-quality lessons
• To intellectually prepare for their delivery of shared lesson resources
• To be a role model for students, inspiring them to be actively interested in your subject
• To maintain up to date expert subject knowledge
• To ensure the effective/efficient deployment of classroom support
• To manage behaviour in line with the school's behaviour policy
• To lead, monitor and evaluate the assessment and feedback to students in line with whole school and department policy
• To follow department monitoring and tracking systems relating to students' attainment, progress and achievement
• To mark, grade and give written/verbal and diagnostic feedback as required
• To undertake assessment of students as requested by external examination bodies, curriculum areas and school procedures
• To assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of students and to keep such records as are required
• To update professional knowledge and expertise as appropriate to keep up to date with developments in teaching practice and methodology
• To engage with the school's rank order assessment process
• To prioritise and manage time effectively, ensuring continued professional development in line with the role

• Relevant Degree
• Postgraduate Qualification
• Qualified Teacher Status
• Professional development and career progression

• Generous pension scheme
• Access to Blue Light Card scheme
• Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym Discounts
• Free eye tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Being part of a great team and expanding organisation