Teacher – MPS

Post Title

Teacher – Qualified and Unqualified positions

Teachers Pay Scales plus Secure Unit Allowance and Community Homes Addition

Children and Young People’s Service

Early Help Inc & Vnble Children, Secure Services

Head Teacher

Your normal place of work will be Aycliffe Secure Services. However, you may be required to work at any council workplace within County Durham.

This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure.

This post is not eligible for flexitime.

This post is not designated as a politically restricted post in accordance with the requirements of Section 1(5) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and by regulations made from time to time by the Secretary of State.

To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for young people and to lead a designated curriculum area as appropriate.

The post holder will work as a member of a team of teaching staff and teaching assistants providing a broad and balanced education to young people who attend Secure Education.

• To monitor and support the overall progress and development of young people as a teacher.
• To plan, facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides young people with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
• To contribute to raising standards of student attainment.
• To share and support the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.

• To teach students according to their educational needs, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the student in school and elsewhere.
• To assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of students and to keep such records as are required.
• To provide or contribute to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students and groups of students.
• To ensure that ICT, Literacy, Numeracy and the schools Special Needs strategy is reflected in the teaching/learning experience of students.
• To undertake a designated programme of teaching.
• To ensure a high-quality learning experience for students which meets internal and external quality standards.
• To prepare and update subject materials.
• To use a variety of delivery methods which will stimulate learning appropriate to young people’s needs and demands of the syllabus.
• To maintain discipline in accordance with the school’s procedures, and to encourage good practice with regard to punctuality, behaviour, standards of work and homework.
• To undertake assessment of young people as requested by external examination bodies, departmental and school procedures.
• To mark, grade and give written/verbal and diagnostic feedback as required.

• To development appropriate syllabuses, resources, schemes of work, marking policies and teaching strategies within an identified Curriculum Area.
• To contribute to the Curriculum Area’s development plan and it’s implementation.
• To plan and prepare courses and lessons.
• To contribute to the whole school’s planning, recording and monitoring systems.
• To contribute to the systems which inform the SEF and SIP.

• To assist the Head Teacher, to ensure that the curriculum area provides a range of teaching which complements the school’s strategic objectives.
• To assist in the process of curriculum development and change so as to ensure the continued relevance to the needs of young people.

• To take part in the school’s staff development programme by participating in arrangements for further training and professional development.
• To continue personal development in the relevant areas including subject knowledge and teaching methods.
• To engage actively in the Performance Management Appraisal process as described the ‘Centrally Employed Teachers pay Policy’.
• To ensure the effective and efficient deployment of classroom support.
• To work as a member of a designated team and to contribute positively to effective working relations within Secure Services.

• To help…