Job Description

Employer
Orchard Mead Academy
Location
Leicester, Leicestershire
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Salary
L4-L7
Posted
15th May 2025
Start Date
25th August 2025
Expires
21st May 2025 09:00 AM
Contract Type
Permanent
Start Date
25th August 2025
Job ID
1485490
Job Reference
OMA/MATHS/052025

Hours: Full Time

Contract: Permanent

Start Date: August 2025

Salary: L4-L7

The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) exists to improve the life chances of children and young people. At the heart of all we do is a commitment to provide our academies access to a world-class education, excellent school-to-school support and to provide our staff with an employer keen to provide high quality professional development.

Orchard Mead Academy is proud to serve a uniquely diverse community in the North Eastern outskirts of the City of Leicester, in it's larger than average 11-16 mixed comprehensive school which benefited from a 19m rebuild as part of the national Building Schools for the Future programme.

Orchard Mead Academy shares the ethos, vision and values of TMET which is for each and every member of the school community to Make a Positive Difference. The Academy is proud to have a broad, rich and ambitious curriculum, enabling each student to develop their voice, talents and abilities.

The staff, students and families at Orchard Mead Academy work together to support each learner, making sure they have every opportunity to achieve. Its hope is that by the time students graduate Year 11 they will be successful, confident and equipped with the skills to Make A Positive Difference to themselves, their families and the wider world.

This is a school where:

Maths is a subject that is valued by students and families.

The team is highly experienced and very cohesive.

The curriculum is rich, ambitious and well planned

Resources are centrally produced, saving on workload.

Smart workload efficient ways of feedback to students are in place.

Behaviour management is centralised and teachers are enabled to flourish.

The successful candidate will teach Maths through the age range 11-16.

Please see the attached and Person Specification for more information.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure check.

How to apply

If you are interested in this post, please complete the application form online.

A letter detailing why you are a suitable candidate for the position should accompany your completed application form.

Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:

Job description

Application and Recruitment Process document

Closing date: Wednesday 21st May 2025, 9am

Orchard Mead Academy is committed to:

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, and prevention of discrimination in its many forms.

NO AGENCIES OR CVs PLEASE

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Safeguarding Statement:

This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.