Job Introduction
Baycroft are offering an inviting opportunity for a range of potential candidates, due to flexibility within our current staffing structure.
This role would be suitable for a specialist teacher early in their career, including an NQT, if looking for growth within role to department team lead. There is a highly experienced specialist subject lead currently in post who is redeploying within the team and whom would therefore be available to support and enable.
For a more established specialist teacher looking for a middle leadership role, there is potential for a TLR payment and a Faculty Lead/whole school development aspect to the role.
You will be a secondary trained, subject specialist, or a qualified teacher with a demonstrably successful track record of teaching DT including resistant materials at secondary level.
We have a well-appointed specialist rooms for; textiles; cooking; resistant materials and a strong curriculum and culture in place across the 3 aspects of the subject. There is scope for further development of facilities and equipment under direction of a new lead.
Baycroft is a particularly large, secondary school for students with moderate learning difficulties, with nearly 200 students and a team of around 100 adults supporting them. We have a rich CPD and leadership development pathway as well as a range of wellbeing and mental wealth measures. This includes a clinical wellbeing service for all staff and their households, comprising free services such as specialist counselling, 24/7 GP access, physiotherapy, weight loss. Teaching is a demanding profession but we expect to invest in the care of our staff in order to get the very best from them for our students.
To this end, we have both weekly non-contact time (PPA plus role-based allowance) and bookable non-contact days off site for all teaching staff. This provides continuity and headspace for development activities such as planning a new curriculum or refining assessment tools. All teaching staff are form tutors and both time and a wider support structure are provided for this front line pastoral role, working with a group of around 12 students and a team of 2-3 attached support staff.
We are in the fortunate position of having time to wait for the right candidate. Therefore, we can be flexible about a start date.
For further information please email: Kerry Elliott k.ellliott@baycroft.hants.sch.uk
Closing date: Monday 25th November Interviews: w/c 2nd December
Safer Recruitment
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
