Textiles & Health & Social Care Teacher (maternity cover)

Prudhoe Community High School seeks to appoint a creative, well-qualified and experienced textiles teacher with effect from December 2024 to cover a period of maternity leave. We have a highly successful Art/Textiles department. Applications are welcomed from experienced teachers who possess enthusiasm for the subject and the ability to teach at both GCSE and A-Level. Early Career Teachers are welcome to apply. Prudhoe Community High School is a 13-19 High School with approximately 770 students on roll including 200 Sixth Form. Examination results are excellent at both GCSE and Sixth Form.

In 2016, our new school building opened. We have an environment set up to support learning for all students with new Fitness Suite, 3G pitches, Engineering, Learning Resource Centre and many more outstanding facilities across the school. In September 2023 Tyne Community Learning Trust merged with the 3 Rivers Learning Trust to become the Cheviot Learning Trust consisting of 2 high schools, 5 middle schools and 11 first schools.

The school was recently inspected and continues to be good. The positive report included: ‘The school has high expectations for what pupils can achieve. It values all subjects and has developed an ambitious curriculum that reflects this. The school offers key stage 4 and 5 courses that meet pupils’ needs and interests. Pupils have positive attitudes to their learning. They achieve well. This is a calm and orderly school. Pupils behave well. They socialise happily with each other at break times and lunchtimes. In lessons, they are attentive and follow teachers’ Instructions.’ Ofsted December 2023.

We are strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. If you are invited for interview, you will be required to disclose convictions that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. Certain spent convictions and cautions will be ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed. Full details on protected convictions and information about which convictions must be declared during job applications can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. You will be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.

This role will include Regulated Activities and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure is required for this post. This policy outlines the Trust’s approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders. Informal discussions or visits to the school prior to interview are encouraged.

Please contact Cherry Collings to arrange a visit. Tel: 01661 832486 Application forms and further information regarding the post are available on the school website: www.pchs.cheviotlt.co.uk or the Trust’s website www.cheviotlearningtrust.co.uk. Completed applications should be returned directly to the school either by post to Mrs Cherry Collings, Prudhoe Community High School, Moor Road, Prudhoe, Northumberland. NE42 5LJ or by email to c.collings@pchs.cheviotlt.co.uk

Closing date: 12 noon on Wednesday 16 October 2024. Applications received after that date will not be considered.