Teacher of Media Studies

The purpose of your role will be:

• To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.


• To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher/form tutor


• To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential


• To contribute to raising standards of student attainment


• To share and support the academy's responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth

Your main areas of responsibility will fall under the areas of:

• Operational and strategic planning (including lesson planning, developing resources and syllabuses, and contributing to the departmental plan)


• Curriculum planning


• Staff development (including continuing professional development and engaging fully in the Performance Management Review process)


• Quality assurance (including contributing to the process of monitoring and evaluating the subject area)


• Management of information (including maintaining appropriate records and tracking student progress)


• Communications with students, parents and other stakeholders


• Pastoral system (including being a form tutor to a selected group of students)


• Teaching, ensuring a high quality learning experience for students

For further details, please download the job pack.

The successful candidate will:

• Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree


• Have successful teaching experience at secondary level (can be teaching practice), ideally including experience in multi-ethnic urban schools and of working in an 11-18 school


• Understand the theory and practice of effective teaching and learning


• Understand the importance of high expectations and equality of access for all students, and of being a tutor


• Have knowledge of National Curriculum requirements at KS3 and KS4, and of writing lesson plans, developing resources and assessing students' work


• Be able to work as part of a team and to develop and maintain positive relationships with all staff


• Have a good level of ICT skills, ideally including innovative use of interactive white boards


• Be able to create a motivating and safe learning environment for all students


• Be able to communicate positively with parents, carers and other external agencies where necessary


• Have good written and spoken communication skills


• Be able to lead and manage their own work effectively


• Have excellent time management skills


• Be able to motivate students and raise their aspirations through a range of strategies

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.

At Harris Clapham Sixth Form we want our students to be hugely ambitious, to dream bigger and to realise their aspirations, with the help of great teaching, a rigorous curriculum and a fantastic extra-curricular offer that broadens horizons and sparks curiosity.

We are a community who work together for the greater good of our academy; there is a culture of mutual respect and kindness between staff and students.

Our academy is brand new and benefits from being a state-of-the-art building. It has been especially designed to deliver a Sixth Form education.