What skills and experience we're looking for
Teaching:
• To meet the required and appropriate level of performance as detailed in the ‘Professional Standards for Teachers’.
• Provide stimulating teaching and learning opportunities both in the classroom and in terms of eLearning.
• Provide a strong environment and culture for learning.
• Ensure own practice is of a high standard and continue to develop your professional skills and knowledge.
• Develop and deliver innovative schemes of learning and assessment in line with new specifications, curriculum requirements and related pedagogy.
• Promote and inspire learning through planning which takes into account the needs and progress of all students.
• Facilitate peer observation and professional dialogue.
• Actively seek student voice / feedback to raise standards.
• Involve Teaching Assistants (TAs) in planning to provide high quality individual support with targeted intervention.
Achievement and Standards:
• Continually assess student progress.
• Provide students with high quality feedback in order to drive attainment.
• Provide parents with high quality feedback about their child’s progress.
• Use available data to plan, review and monitor progress of all students in order to promote rigorous improvement of attainment.
• Promote equality of performance and achievement of all students and student groups.
• Maintain an understanding of developments within teaching practice and methodology and initiatives at a local, national and global level.
• To be aware of general developments in Computing and to maintain a detailed knowledge of the Computing curriculum.
Personal Development and Wellbeing:
• Inspire and support students to develop leadership skills and qualities.
• Establish a positive ethos in the school by promoting and demonstrating high standards.
Job Description continued
• Actively encourage and develop the well-being and success of students through tutoring. Act as the ‘first port of call’ for tutees and their parents.
• Take responsibility for own Professional Development.
• Promote, reinforce and mode the school’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment.
• Adopt coaching and restorative approaches where relevant.
Other specific duties:
• To play a full part in the life of the school community in implementing its vision, mission and ethos and support staff and students to do likewise.
• To carry out other responsibilities as determined by the Headteacher, following consultation.
A review of the post and its responsibilities will be undertaken periodically and may result in modification to the tasks of the post-holder.
Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.
Employees are required to be courteous to colleagues and students and provide a welcoming environment to visitors and telephone callers.
The school will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.
This job description is current at the date shown, but, in consultation with the postholder, may be changed by the Headteacher to reflect or anticipate changes in the job commensurate with the grade and job title.
What the school offers its staff
Teacher of Computing
MPS/UPS
Full time permanent contract from September 2025
This is a fantastic opportunity to join us as a Teacher of Computing in a collaborative, supportive and happy school. Are you driven by sharing your passion for Computing and ensuring students reach their potential? If so then we would love to hear from you.
Please read on to find out more information about Crispin and how to apply for the role. In addition, for a more comprehensive insight into Crispin and the role itself, including Job Description, Personal Specification, Letter from the Headteacher and an overview of Computing at the school, please download the Applicant Information Pack below.
Crispin is a friendly, inclusive and highly successful school of over a thousand students. Students at Crispin achieve excellent examination results and the school has a strong reputation. We are committed to educating the whole child to ensure they enter adulthood as happy, supported young people with a love for learning. We are looking for a committed and inspirational Teacher of Computing to join our highly successful team. Computing is a popular subject at Crispin and there is a history of strong exam performance. We would be delighted for you to visit Crispin or to have the opportunity to discuss the post prior to an application. If you wish to do either, please contact the Headteacher’s PA by email at HeadsPA@crispinschool.co.uk.
Closing date for this post: 10:00 Monday 18 November 2024.
Supported by the Partnership Board, our staff work hard to deliver a rich and challenging curriculum to prepare young people for the next stages of their education and careers.
It is an exciting time to join the Wessex family as we grow, we can offer:
• Professional induction, training and continued professional development opportunities.
• Extended Leadership and other opportunities to develop your career.
• Excellent collaboration across Trust Schools, extensive learning communities and specialist subject leads, to enhance the learning of our young people and enhance your development.
• Staff benefits including reduced leisure centre membership and cycle to work scheme.
• A staff assistance programme with a specialist provider, CareFirst who provide a 24/7 free phone helpline, or face-to-face counselling for every employee in the Wessex family.
The Wessex Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding young people and promoting the welfare of children, and all staff appointed will undergo online checks and be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement of the role.
Further details about the role
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Crispin. We believe that Crispin is a great school to be a part of whether as a student or colleague. We are a friendly, inclusive, highly successful school of over a thousand students who make strong progress academically, but who also receive a great many wider opportunities to learn in the fullest sense of the word.
Crispin is a popular school with a strong reputation. We unashamedly have high expectations of all members of our community and we believe in challenging and supporting students to achieve their very best. Visitors regularly refer to our students and colleagues very positively. Relationships between staff and students are a strength of the school and colleagues are committed to providing every opportunity for students to have a broad experience and to be successful. We are committed to educating the whole child to ensure they enter adulthood as happy, supported young people with a love for learning. There is a sharp focus on learning and students receive excellent support. At all times we seek to be a compassionate institution.
It is important to state that Crispin has a very strong safeguarding culture which we would expect potential colleagues to wholeheartedly support.
We have a wide-ranging curriculum and have recently expanded the opportunities for students. We offer two Languages, a range of Arts and Technology options as well as courses in areas such as Business, Engineering, Health and Social Care and Sport. Students have the opportunity to study Philosophy and our popular course, Curriculum for Life. There are also a wide range of enrichment activities for students ranging from residential visits to school productions; sports to music; an enrichment week to work experience. We have a successful ‘Employability’ programme which provides important opportunities for students.
We are proud of our House system which is comprised of four Houses (Corvus, Falco, Sturnus and Tyto). This system allows for a wide range of opportunities for students from collaboration to competition, student leadership to support. All colleagues are members of one of the Houses.
We are fortunate to have a well-equipped site which includes extensive grounds, a range of curriculum area blocks and an astroturf pitch. We are also extremely fortunate to have opened a purpose-built Innovation Hub in November 2020. This has been the most substantial development of the site since the opening of Crispin.
This post is a really exciting one and would be a great opportunity for the right candidate. Other than the basic details in the person specification, we do not have a pre-existing idea of what the successful candidate’s career to date will have been. We realise that prospective colleagues will have a range of skills and experience and we will fully support the successful candidate to develop professionally. We have a strong Creativity and Innovation Faculty with a range of experience and expertise which works in a collaborative and supportive manner. We are passionate about providing a wide range of opportunities for all colleagues and this is often referred to favourably by colleagues. Every year colleagues are seconded as Associate Assistant Headteachers, have the opportunity to join the Extended Leadership Team as well as a wide range of other opportunities to develop their careers.
Crispin joined the Wessex Learning Trust on 1 March 2023. We have been working closely with the Trust since 2022 and our membership offers a range of opportunities for the successful candidate.
The most important thing is that you are passionate about teaching Computing. Above all else you should be:
• A reflective and caring colleague.
• Always seeking to maximise the success and happiness of students.
• A colleague with the highest expectations of what all members of the school community are capable of.
Should you require any further information, would like to discuss the post with me or would like to visit Crispin before an application, do not hesitate to contact us by email:
HeadsPA@crispinschool.co.uk
To apply for this role simply click on the quick apply button on TES.com and complete the online application form. Your supporting statement / letter (of no more than two sides) should outline your skills and experience and how you meet the person specification.
After reading through the application information pack I hope you decide to apply for the post and I look forward to reading your application.
Commitment to safeguarding
Crispin is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post requires a criminal background check via the disclosure procedure. The successful applicant will therefore be subject to an Enhanced DBS. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement of the role.