Teacher Primary

Job Description

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Teaching and learning/pastoral care:

- Delivering lessons for the given subject(s) with excellent knowledge and understanding of the subject/year group.

- Outstanding knowledge of how to best equip students with the skills to achieve their potential.

- Being able to create and na ture a warm, caring, but academically driven classroom environment.

- Be a class teacher to a given class, where they know and care for the well-being, academic and extracurricular success of each of their students.

- Offering impeccable safeguarding and child protection to every student in the school.

- Create and add to the team's lesson resources, ensure the resources are tailored to the classes that you teach.

- Track students' progress and apply internal and external to their planning for each of their lessons.

- To report on student’s progress throughout the year, via physical reports and parents evenings.

- Offering personalised challenge and tailoring planning in order to best meet the needs and data of their class.

- Taking responsibility for one’s own professional development journey.

- Engaging in the school-wide professional development programme .

- Sharing in the pastoral responsibility for all pupils in the school and especially for those in the teacher’s tutor group.

- Conducting break time/lunch time duties and covering for absent colleagues.

- Maintaining a positive physical learning environment, including classroom displays.

- Attending school events and taking part in the wider school life.

- Offering an extracurricular club for at least two school terms that are of high quality.

- To play their part in continually improving the school by aiding the relevant improvement plans and school improvement plans .

Other duties and responsibilities:

- To promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people that you are responsible for or come into contact with .

- Any other duties as assigned by the Principal/Senior leaders /Line managers.

Qualifications and related Experience

- Have a good honours degree.

- Hold a QTS or PGCE teaching qualification, preferably from the UK.

- Have a minimum of two years’ experience of teaching.

- Be talented and highly motivated.

- Have experience teaching relevant UK curriculums.

- Be willing to contribute to the development of departmental resources.

- Contribute to whole school enrichment activities before or after school.

- Be able to provide an ICPC and a UK enhanced DBS or equivalent police check.

- Be professional in appearance and conduct.

- Be willing to contribute to the wider curriculum and support the vision of the school.

ISP Principles

Begin with our children and students . Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore, we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding

and Health & Safety issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.

Treat everyone with care and respect . We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well-being of self and others.

Operate effectively. We focus relentlessly on the things that are most important and will make the most difference. We apply school policies and procedures and embody the shared ideas of our community.

Are financially responsible. We make financial choices carefully based on the needs of the children, students and our schools.

Learn continuously. Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.

ISP Commitment to Safeguarding Principles

ISP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures, including an online due diligence search, references and satisfactory Criminal Background Checks or equivalent covering the previous 10 years’ employment history.

ISP Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

ISP is committed to strengthening our inclusive culture by identifying, hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing teammates regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender expression, age, disability status, neurodivergence, socio-economic background or other demographic characteristics. Candidates who share our vision and principles and are interested in contributing to the success of ISP through this role are strongly encouraged to apply.