Teacher of History

If you are a dynamic, supportive, and inspiring teacher who has experience in curriculum planning and delivery of history across Key Stages 3 -5, we want to hear from you. You are an incredible teacher who is passionate about your subject and able to inspire and motivate students to learn. Your passion for history is demonstrated in your daily work and you are willing to contribute to wider curriculum opportunity for students to further engage and support them in the subject. We welcome visits from potential candidates at any time. The Academy is looking for someone who has:

• Ambition for all students to achieve incredible things, particularly inspiring their interest and supporting development of skills and knowledge in history;
• Resilience to adapt and support all students in achieving in history;
• Ambition for your own development and learning. All teaching staff are provided with additional non-contact time specifically for personal-development;
• Incredible subject knowledge;
• The ability to understand and work with assessment data to monitor and intervene as appropriate with students.
We can offer you:
• Students who are kind, ambitious, resilient and respectful, working in and with well established systems which allow you to focus on teaching;
• A motivated and supportive staff-body who prioritise students' achievement;
• Additional non-contact time beyond 10% PPA to support your own self-development and workload;
• Prioritisation of the reduction of workload in teaching;
• Regular celebration of achievement for both students and staff;
• A supportive environment which focuses on all members of our community achieving their best;
• Access to Health Care schemes through the Mercian Academy Trust;
• A "birthday day" paid leave of absence to celebrate your special day or use for something else (subject to attendance measures);
• Opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from a wide range of settings including grammar schools and a-typical settings.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• + Teaching history across Key Stages 3-5; + Responsibility for adding value to every learner in each teaching group benchmarked against national criteria and data; + Delivering, planning, and preparing lessons in accordance with the planned curriculum; + Contribution to curriculum design within history; + Working as part of an incredible team that ensures creative and innovative learning and teaching occurs in every lesson; + Being a Form Tutor. Pay range: MPS/UPS - £32,916 - £51,048
  
  
• Qualified teacher status
• A commitment to high standards for all
• Continuing good record for professional development
• Achievement of high standards
• Awareness of the value of assessment data in raising standards
  
  At Q3 Academy Tipton, we aim to:
Support and develop young people who:
• are enthusiastic learners and achieve incredible things;
• live life to the full in pursuit of what is good, right and true;
• lead happy, confident and safe lives;
• are unstoppable in the world of work and within their families and communities.
At Q3 Academy Tipton we aim to achieve this through ensuring students know more, do more and achieve more. Our students uphold our values of kindness, ambition, resilience and respect Our school as a community challenges, checks and cheers achievements and standards for all staff and students to work towards. We believe all students, staff, families and the community matter, that we care about one another unreservedly.

For full details of the post please see attached Job Description and Person Specification To find out more about our School: Q3 Academy Tipton - Home Why The Mercian Trust? As one Trust we share a common purpose. We call it our social mobility and social justice mission to change our communities through the very best equitable education. When we get this right, it enables our children and young people to fulfil their potential, thrive in the world of work, and make a positive contribution to the local, national and international community. Our recent achievements include: Sustainable Growth - becoming one of the largest and most diverse trusts in the region Social Mobility & Social Justice - National recognition for the Trust's two selective grammar schools who the most successful on the number of local disadvantaged students passing the entrance and joining the schools Increasing Opportunities - Opening brand-new purpose-built campus in Walsall Town Centre including an alternative provision for students at risk at permanent exclusion from mainstream schools alongside a Digital Skills Hub to provide professionals and employers Pioneering Spirit - National recognition for pioneering work around youth mental health, including establishing an in-house multi-disciplinary team of clinicians and allied health professionals delivering interventions and providing support to vulnerable students Outward Looking - Organising and hosting the region's first Youth Suicide Conference (2023) and Youth Violence Conference (2024) at Villa Park Innovation and Improvement - A multi-million-pound investment in the digital infrastructure of Trust schools and our Digital Skills Hub underpinning the ongoing transformation of how staff teach, students learn, leaders lead and the whole Trust operates in readiness for the AI-supercharged careers and workplaces of the future. Want to be a part of something extraordinary? Find out more: The Mercian Trust - Home Benefits: Financial, Health and Lifestyle
• discounts on everyday purchases (Eden Red)
• a comprehensive free of charge health plan (UK Health Care)
• a cycle to work scheme via Halfords
For further benefits including education sector leading CPD: The Mercian Trust - What we can offer you The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.