Our opportunity for you
This is an exciting time to join Landau Forte Academy, Amington. We are an oversubscribed forward thinking 11-16 academy on a mission to provide high quality education for our local community and in May 2022 we were judged GOOD in all areas by Ofsted. We have high expectations for our students and our academy is built upon our shared values: ambitious, brave and kind.
As with all posts at Amington, we are looking for dedicated, committed and inspirational individuals to provide high quality teaching to our wonderful students.
If successful, you will become part of our community. You will be supported in your career with opportunities to achieve nationally recognised qualifications and we invest in our staff by offering protected time, within the Academy day, for continual professional development. We have dedicated time to create a feedback and assessment policy that prioritises student progress but utilises live marking in the classroom, and whole‑class feedback to enable staff to use their PPA time to focus on delivering exceptional learning. Collaboration flourishes within our faculties and shared planning empowers our staff to offer an exciting and unreservedly ambitious, challenging and engaging curriculum.
This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious individual with a proven track record of high impact teaching who is excited by the opportunity to develop faculty and whole school teaching and learning.
We care about our staff and staff wellbeing is integral to our decision making. We are committed to prioritising the wellbeing of our staff through a wellbeing committee and by committing to the DfE Staff Wellbeing Charter.
Those individuals who are excited by being part of a journey to outstanding are encouraged to visit the academy and meet with our Principal, Mr Andrew Deen.
Key information
Hours: Full Time
Contract: Permanent
Start date: January 2027
Salary: Competitive/LP scale
Closing Date: 3rd July 3pm
What we can offer you
- A supportive, cohesive and exciting working environment
- The chance to work with genuinely enthusiastic and happy students
- Career prospects within an innovative and ambitious Multi Academy Trust
- A meal allowance, commensurate with your working hours
- Membership of the Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS)
- Healthcare Cash Plan, from Westfield Health
Person specification
- PGCE or QTS in Science (essential)
- A well‑qualified teacher with a strong teaching record including relevant qualifications (both formal and through appropriate experience) to meet the challenge of the appointment
- A genuine passion for teaching Science and developing the curriculum to enable all pupils to achieve their potential in each of the disciplines
- Experience of teaching a range of abilities at KS3 and KS4 is essential, with a track record of good or better results at GCSE.
- A commitment to our school improvement process and a growth mindset in the journey to improve outcomes
- Experience in leading others
- Has a friendly and respectful approach yet is professional and who demonstrates supporting others
- Is committed to the continuous development of self and others by keeping up to date with new educational concepts and sharing knowledge - encouraging new ideas, seeking new opportunities and challenges, open to ideas and developing new skills
- An interest in the latest developments in science teaching and research
- Excellent relationships with students, parents and colleagues
- A willingness to explore innovative and dynamic methods for teaching and learning
- High levels of professionalism, enthusiasm, ambition, energy, resilience and determination
- Competent in the use of ICT both as an administrative tool and in teaching, learning and assessment practices
Job description
- To plan, resource and deliver lessons and sequences of lessons to the highest standard, thereby ensuring meaningful learning takes place and students make rapid and sustained progress
- To coach and mentor developing teachers within the department and potentially across the academy
- To fully implement all academy routines and techniques for creating a culture of high expectations
- To contribute to the enrichment, extra‑curricular and raising aspirations programmes
- To provide daily pastoral tutoring to a form group
- To contribute to the effective daily working of the academy
- To be well‑informed on current teaching research and pedagogy
- To be able to deliver CPD to staff, using relevant research to inform content
- To support the Faculty Lead, in ensuring teaching and learning is of a consistently high standard, across the Faculty
- To support the Assistant Principal for teaching and learning, in ensuring lesson delivery is of a consistently high standard, across the Academy
- To lead by an example, including being a reflective and pro‑active practitioner
- To support with teaching and learning strategy implementation and quality assurance
