Teacher of Economics & Business

Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea
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Job Ref No. ECC8825428-337S Position Type: Teacher Pay Range: M1 - UPS3
Position Start Date: 01/01/2025 Contract Type: Part-time Contract Term: Permanent
Application Close: 08/10/2024 Midnight Date of Interviews: Tuesday 15th October 2024  

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Teacher of Economics and Business

FTE 0.50

Required for January 2025

Closing date: Tuesday 8th October 2024

Interviews to be held on Tuesday 15th October 2024

Application forms are available at www.shsg.org/vacancies/#how-to-apply

Please submit your application and covering letter to recruitment@shsg.org

You will be joining a thriving economics and business department working within a successful social sciences faculty which includes psychology, sociology, politics, economics, and business. We value collaboration to ensure there is a vibrant learning and teaching experience for all with opportunities to get involved with visiting speakers, trips, external lectures, presentations, and EPQ.

We offer A Level Economics and A Level Business in the Sixth Form with GCSE Business as an option at Key Stage 4. Economics and Business courses at A Level and GCSE are usually oversubscribed. Results are testament to our diligent and hardworking students and staff, and in 2024, 93% achieved grades A*-B in A Level Economics, 83% achieved grades A*-B in A Level Business, and 73% achieved grades 9 - 7 in GCSE Business.

A good number of students go on to study economics or business-related courses at university. In recent years the department has prepared students for courses at Oxford and Cambridge, LSE, Nottingham, and Bath Universities as well as Degree Apprenticeships with institutions such as KPMG, NatWest, Barclays, J P Morgan, and PWC.

The successful candidate should:

  • Be an inspirational classroom practitioner with an irresistible enthusiasm for their subject. As a reflective practitioner you will be constantly looking to develop your practice through collaboration, experimentation, and hard work.
  • Be a team player working closely with the Head of Department to develop the learning experiences for all our students.
  • Be creative and innovative constantly looking for new ways to challenge our high ability students.
  • Contribute to secure the highest standards of pupil achievement, monitoring, tracking, supporting, and evaluating pupil achievement. Set targets for improvement and implement effective strategies for underperforming students.

We can offer you:

  • Highly motivated, curious, and industrious students.
  • A strong, highly qualified staff team and an ethos of tolerance and respect with a family community spirit.
  • A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing.
  • An environment which promotes innovation.

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls' grammar school rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey

For all enquiries, please contact Karen Lacey HR & Payroll Manager by e-mail at recruitment@shsg.org

We reserve the right to call applicants to interview, and appoint, prior to the closing date.

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. This is a customer facing role needing fluent spoken English.

Information about the School

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status, steeped in history, and built on strong traditions and values, combining tradition with innovative approaches to teaching and learning and curriculum delivery. We are an outward facing school, ambitious and proactive in researching and learning about the best practices. Our friendly, ‘family-orientated’ ethos is at the heart of all that we do; our core principles are to ensure that everyone is ‘safe, happy and successful.’

Southend High School for Girls has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful. Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations, and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.

Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief, and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges. Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.

Our academic ethos is underpinned by a culture of teaching which centres on Trivium 21C approaches where the tradition of grammar and knowledge form the foundations for questioning, reasoning, communicating, and learning. An SHSG student is encouraged to develop a swashbuckling approach to their learning and personal development journey from Year 7 to Year 13, confident to take risks and engaging in learning adventures with gusto and flamboyance.

We believe in the importance of creating a strong sense of pride, shared identity, teamwork and belonging in our school for every member of the SHSG family. Once a member of the SHSG family, you are always a member of the SHSG family and have a lifelong connection to the school, its people, values and traditions.

We truly believe that Southend High School for Girls is a special place to work. Our students are highly motivated, curious, and hard-working, and our staff are ambitious for them. It is a privilege to learn and to work at Southend High School for Girls.

Local Area

Southend High School for Girls is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-On-Sea, Essex. The schools location is easily accessible with links by road to the A13, the A127 and the M25 can be reached in under 30 minutes. London is 35 miles away with direct and regular rail services to Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street from several local stations. The closest train station to the school is Southend.

Southend and the locality offer Department stores, exclusive shops and popular street markets, and a modern library within close distance of the town centre. The local districts and towns such as Leigh-on-Sea, Westcliff, Thorpe Bay and Southchurch are full of shopping and cultural facilities including museums and art galleries. The town's parks and gardens are well-known features and Belfairs Park and Nature Reserve is popular with bird-watchers and nature lovers. Within a short distance of Southchurch is the open countryside with many places of interest to visit.

Southend offers many recreational opportunities. There are lots of different sport activities available through both public and private facilities for swimming, tennis and golf and with seven miles of seafront, windsurfing, angling, sailing and paddle boarding are popular. Southend Pier is a major landmark in the City of Southend-on-Sea. Extending 2.16 kilometres into the Thames Estuary, it is the longest pleasure pier in the world. It is serviced by its own trains and is one of the town's oldest landmarks.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

Information about the school

Contact Information

Karen Lacey
Southchurch Boulevard, Southend-on-Sea
Essex, SS2 4UZ
Telephone: 01702 588852
Email: recruitment@shsg.org

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