Teacher of Psychology / Social Sciences (One Year Maternity Cover) - Full-time

The successful candidate will be ambitious for young people and for themselves; creative in using new technologies or teaching approaches to help students to learn and progress; keen to continually develop their practice, sharing what works best with their team, and an enthusiastic teacher who can motivate and challenge students.

Wrotham School forms part of the Character Education Trust, a 2 Academy Trust that aims to provide students with high quality academic and 'Character Education'. Our vision is to support and encourage the students within our Trust to develop good character; to be confident and kind; to have integrity; to respect difference and to make a positive contribution to the community around them. A link to our website for more information can be found here https://www.charactereducationtrust.org/ The school has been recognised for its excellent work on Character Education by being awarded the prestigious School of Character Kitemark - a formal acknowledgement of the work the school has done to promote and develop good character in the school community. We are a progressive and innovative school that provides a positive and productive place to work for teachers of all experience levels. Why Work at Wrotham School? -A trusting and caring workplace that looks after its staff. -A school that respects and values its staff team. -A high performing school that rewards good teaching. -Great students and families that give back in support and appreciation for good teaching. An incredible provision of staff benefits from day one including:

• Flexible working arrangements that ensure every member of staff has an "offsite" flexible working period of 75 minutes+ at the start or end of at least 1 day per week. Strict and well established out of hours communication restrictions that protect evenings, weekends and holiday periods. Free lunch for all staff - every day. No directed or preferred teaching style or method other than sharing and learning from good practice. Access to short term/ emergency staff counselling by qualified psychotherapists - on site. Free breakfast cereal for all staff and students - everyday. Excellent transport links via motorway/ nearby train station. Regular staff welfare surveys with clear outcomes and actions. Bespoke and personalised CPD programme An innovative "target free" teacher appraisal system that is exclusively based on continuous development of teaching and learning. An excellent ECT and trainee programme of support
and development.
• Aspirant leadership courses (in house) and access to NPQ qualification at all levels. A supportive behaviour and sanction system that relieves burden on teaching staff.
• A culture of trust of staff to manage working hours with no expectation to work on site when not required. A regular and supportive check in and on boarding system.
  
  At an exciting time for our school and department, we look forward to welcoming a dedicated and passionate teacher to our successful team. Although the post is initially a 1 year maternity cover, due to the increasing popularity of the subjects there could be scope for a permanent position at the end of the Maternity Cover.
Wrotham School is a highly successful school that is proud of the good character and behavior of its students and our supportive parents. Visitors to our school always comment on the calm and purposeful atmosphere they observe in our classrooms and communal areas. Our outstanding results are testament to the strength of our staff team and the hard work of our students. We are a comprehensive school and students make outstanding progress at all levels Please visit our website for more information on results and achievements. In our last Ofsted inspections we were judged as good overall with outstanding elements. We offer our staff competitive pay, with the opportunity to receive additional pay progression for outstanding performance, in a school that has found success outside of the large academy chains. We are a progressive and innovative school that provides a positive and productive place to work for teachers of all experience levels. We offer a flexible action based CPD programme that offers a personalised approach to professional development. We are committed to achieving a healthy work- life balance for all of our staff and impact assess all initiatives and actively remove unnecessary paperwork/ meetings. As a result we have a very low annual staff turnover. We take wellbeing and welfare of staff very seriously and as well as opportunities throughout the year to have your voice heard, we also provide free lunches and breakfast cereal to all members of staff at the school as well as a coffee morning each Friday. This post is suitable for ECT's and we welcome their application. Equally, we also welcome applications from all ranges of experience.