Post Graduate Teaching Apprenticeship Programme – Class Teacher

at  Unity Schools Partnership

POST GRADUATE TEACHING APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMME – CLASS TEACHER

Various Locations Across East Anglia & Northeast London*
Start Date: 6th January 2024
Salary: UQT1 - £21,731
Contract Type: 15 months, temporary position
Suitable for graduates only
We are looking for excellent, ambitious graduates to join our Trust with guaranteed training on the Post Graduate Teaching Apprenticeship (PGTA) with the University of Buckingham, resulting in Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) . We offer a range of potential locations around East Anglia and North-East London*. If you live near one of these areas, then we have a school close to you.
Duties and responsibilities to be undertaken with the support of a mentor:

You’re Teaching:

• Plan and teach well-structured lessons to assigned classes, following the school’s plans, curriculum and schemes of work
• Assess, monitor, record and report on the learning needs, progress and achievements of assigned pupils, making accurate and productive use of assessment
• Adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of pupils
• Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils
• Promote good progress and outcomes by pupils
• Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge
• Participate in arrangements for preparing pupils for external tests

Your Learning:

• Attend all University of Buckingham professional learning days and seminars
• Complete all reflections
• Complete all directed tasks on time and to a high standard
• Complete all pedagogical reading
• Prepare for weekly observations
• Observe teaching colleagues
• Prepare for weekly mentor meetings
• Complete all self-evaluation reports

We are deeply committed to staff well-being and work-life balance. One way we support this is with our two-week autumn half-term break, allowing our staff to rest and recharge. Additionally, we provide numerous professional development opportunities that foster a positive and supportive work environment. Our goal is to ensure that every member of our team feels valued and equipped to succeed in their roles.

If you seek to be excellent and would like to know more about how we will help you achieve that, please complete the application form.

• Our Secondary Schools are located in Brandon, Bury St Edmunds, Felixstowe, Haverhill, Newmarket, Sudbury and Romford. Please specify on your application which locations you wish to work in.

Unity Schools Partnership is an innovative MAT and an ideal place to begin your teaching career. We have a nationally acclaimed curriculum offer (CUSP) and our schools use our Trust &iLearn digital strategy to deliver curriculum excellence through 1:1 iPads, in our Primary Schools and now developing into our secondary schools. With a Research School at the heart of our practice, we are committed to using evidence to guide our approaches to school improvement. Unity Schools Partnership is a Multi Academy Trust of 39 schools including 8 secondary schools and growing into the 40s over the coming years with other schools to open. We have a track record of providing a variety of different career pathways including movement between different school phases as well as into leadership. We will support you to achieve your career aspirations.
The trust expects its work to be characterised by ethical leadership, an ambition for improvement at pace and the expectation that remarkable change can happen.
For an informal discussion, or to find out more about the role, please contact Rachel O’Halleron, Director of Unity Institute on rohalleron@unitysp.co.uk or Angela Bull, Director of HR on abull@unitysp.co.uk
Closing Date: We encourage applications at the earliest opportunity, closing date is Friday 15th November 9am.
Interviews: Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th November
Application to University of Buckingham completed by 5pm on Wednesday 20th November:
https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/apprenticeship/postgraduate-teacher-apprenticeship-with-qts-and-pgce
Please note: We only accept applications submitted online via our careers website and which are completed before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible and advise you check the job information as per the listing on our careers site.
In line with safer recruitment, we are unable to accept CVs. Failure to complete an application form satisfactorily may result in not being shortlisted for the post.
Unity Schools Partnership is committed to safer recruitment, equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.
Unity Schools Partnership, welcoming diversity.

Please refer the Job description for details