£30,000 - £46,525 per year
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We’re looking for a Teacher of Science with a specialism in either Chemistry or Physics and excellent subject knowledge to teach classes across Key Stages 3 and 4 from January 2025. At Benfield, our Science department is supportive and committed, and we’re looking for someone who can join our team and make a significant contribution to improving the learning experiences of our young people whilst also raising attainment.
We’re looking for someone who can inspire and influence and who:

• Has a successful track record that demonstrates high-quality teaching and learning with positive learner outcomes.
• Has experience contributing to the design and delivery of the curriculum.
• Can make effective use of resources to design and teach effective lessons and activities.

Benfield School is a fully inclusive 11–16 school with a distinct ethos and a strong sense of support and loyalty. Excellent relationships between students and staff and a purposeful learning environment are evident in lessons and around the modernised site. With this foundation, our students have a strong platform to be confident, happy and able to achieve their aspirations.
Our school is one of seven primary and secondary schools within the NEAT Academy Trust family of schools. At the heart of our trust is the aim to nurture, educate, achieve and transform the lives of all young people within the communities we serve across the North East. We have a national research school, which aims to build and strengthen networks of schools throughout the region and help them access effective education research and implement it in everyday practice.
In return, we offer:

• Great opportunities for continuing professional development and a career pathway across the trust.
• A team of hardworking, dedicated and friendly staff where everyone is valued.
• The benefit of working in a highly collaborative multi-academy trust.
• Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, which the trust also contributes to on your behalf.
• Recognition of previous service with other schools, academies, local government, etc.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) delivered by Health Assured – the UK and Ireland’s leading wellbeing provider
• Good transport links via Tyne and Wear Metro and road links from the A19 and A1058 Coast Road

If you would like to join us and feel you could thrive in a collegiate and positive atmosphere, click to apply.
Closing date: 12pm on Tuesday 22nd October 2024.
Interview date: Thursday 24th October 2024.
NEAT Academy Trust is committed to safer recruitment practice and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required for all posts.

Welcome from the Principal

Benfield is very proud of our distinct ethos with its strong sense of mutual support and loyalty, where excellent relationships are evident between students and staff and a purposeful learning environment is evident in lessons and around our modernised site. With this foundation, our students have a strong platform to be confident, happy and are able to achieve their aspiration.
Benfield has an incredible team of excellent teachers and support staff who genuinely care for the students and a fantastic group of young people who have a great love for the school and who take great pride in what they do here.
We have a very clear vision – all of our students are set challenging academic and personal targets and are given the support and encouragement to succeed to ensure that each of them goes out into the globally competitive world after leaving Year 11 or Year 13 with the skills, attributes and behaviours for 21st century living.
The environment we provide for this to take place in is one which is stimulating and exciting, whilst also recognising that education takes place both inside and outside the classroom and through a range of various learning styles.
Within our learning community, we welcome the parents and carers of our students, placing full value on the vital role they play in the education of their children. We believe that it is essential that an active partnership and effective collaboration between home and school is in place to make sure that individually, our students are provided with the start to their life that they deserve.
I hope you find our website helpful and that it conveys our values and ethos.
Mr A Martin
Headteacher
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Welcome from the NEAT Academy Trust CEO

Benfield School is one of Six schools within NEAT Academy Trust. Set up in 2017 to build on the existing collaboration between the schools, our vision is that:

“We belong to an innovative, sustainable trust working collaboratively with partners to share our vision and values that enables all learners within our influence to be well prepared personally, socially and academically for the next stage of their lives in a changing world.”
The development of our workforce is crucial to the success of our young people and joining NEAT will give you access to a wide range of CPD opportunities as you develop your career with us. Having a research school as an integral part of our trust also provides opportunities to work with other schools to use evidence-based programmes and practices and generate original research.
Debi Bailey
CEO