Teacher of Catering
Meopham School
Informaon
CONTENTS
Welcome
Job Descripon
Person Specicaon
Working at Meopham Schoo
How to Find Us
Applicaon Process
Overview of Swale Academies Trust
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Dear Applicant,
Thank you for expressing an interest in joining Meopham School. I hope you will take a look at our website at hps://
www.meophamschool.org.uk/ and take me to consider the informaon enclosed with this leer.
Meopham School is a vibrant and ambious 11-18 school with a strong community ethos. This helps create a supporve
and inspiring climate for success. Students at Meopham School are valued and nurtured as individuals. In April 2023
Ofsted awarded the school with a ‘Good’ grading in all areas, drawing aenon to the fact that “pupils are proud to
aend this inclusive and posive school. They value the supporve and nurturing relaonships they have with sta.”
We have exceponally high standards where we value the hard work which makes it possible for every student and sta
member to full their potenal. We are proud that visitors to our school oen comment on the mature and courteous
manner in which our students present themselves.
We are proud that Meopham students are also curious in their learning, resilient in overcoming diculty, and are
condent in evaluang their own progress. As a consequence they are ambious to achieve academic and personal
success, both in school and the world beyond.
To achieve our vision, we place the recruitment, retenon and professional development of teachers as a top priority.
We therefore seek well-qualied, highly skilled, and enthusiasc teachers, who have the highest expectaons of both
themselves and the pupils in their classes. We want teachers who enjoy working with young people of all abilies and
diering needs.
Meopham School joined the Swale Academies Trust as an academy on 1st February 2013. This is made up of a group of
schools, both primary and secondary, located in Kent and East Sussex.
We are unique in that we have all the benets of a school in a rural seng, with the advantages of working as part of a
larger Trust. We are involved in extensive outreach work across schools in Kent, both within the Trust and beyond. This
means that we can oer you an invigorang professional environment in which to grow. We invite you to be part of our
future success.
If you become part of our team we believe we could oer you a number of benets. You would become part of
something successful. We can oer an exceponal package of professional development, ranging from an acclaimed ECT
inducon programme, training through the naonally recognised Outstanding Teacher Programme, a Masters’ Degree,
and support for aspiring leaders and headteachers through the suite of Naonal Professional Qualicaons.
Meopham School is commied to safeguarding and promong the welfare of children and young people, and expects
all sta and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check. As a school dedicated
to the principle of equal opportunies, we aim to ensure that sta recruitment is fair and open to all regardless of age,
social class, disability, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientaon within the context of the detailed person specicaon.
If you wish to apply please visit Kent Teach to submit your applicaon as soon as possible. We look forward to receiving
your applicaon.
Mr Glenn Prebble Simon Cox
Head of School Execuve Headteacher
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Welcome
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Job Title: Classteacher
Salary: MPS/UPS
Responsible to: Headteacher
Purpose of the job
The current School Teachers’ Pay and Condions Document describes the general professional dues which teachers
are expected to undertake in the course of their employment.
Teachers are also expected to perform parcular dues as may reasonably be assigned to them by the
Headteacher.
For the purpose of this general job descripon these parcular dues are:
Curriculum
• To plan and prepare courses.
• To connuously review teaching methods, schemes of work and resources as necessary.
• To advise and co-operate with the line-manager, other teachers and the Senior Leadership Team on the
preparaon and development of courses of study, teaching materials and resources, teaching programmes,
methods of teaching, assessment and pastoral arrangements.
• To parcipate in meengs of the school which relate to the curriculum for the school or the administraon or
organisaon of the school, including pastoral arrangements.
• To take part as required in the review, development and management of acvies relang to the curriculum,
organisaon and pastoral funcons of the school.
Professional Development etc.
• To parcipate in any arrangement within an agreed naonal framework for the performance management of
performance and that of other teachers.
• To parcipate in arrangements for further training and professional development as a teacher.
• To contribute as appropriate to the selecon for appointment and professional development of other teachers
and support sta, including the inducon and assessment of new and newly qualied teachers.
• To co-ordinate or manage the work of other teachers as appropriate.
• To manage or supervise support sta as necessary.
Pupils:
• To plan and prepare lessons.
• To teach pupils assigned, including seng and prompt marking of work carried out by pupils in school or
elsewhere.
• To set relevant and sucient homework, according to the homework metable, and to ensure prompt marking of
the homework or coursework.
• To assess, record and report on the development, progress and aainment of pupils, according to departmental
and whole-school policies.
• To parcipate in the arrangements for preparing pupils for public examinaons. To assess pupils for the
examinaons and record and report these assessments.
• To promote the general progress and wellbeing of individual pupils and of any class or group
assigned.
• To provide guidance and advice to pupils on educaonal and social maers and on their future educaon and
careers, including informaon about the sources of more expert advice on specic quesons.
• To make records of, and reports on, the personal and social needs of pupils.
• To provide or contribute to oral and wrien assessments, reports and references relang to individual pupils and/
or groups of pupils.
• To maintain good order and discipline among pupils and to safeguard their health and safety both when
they are authorised to be on the school premises and when they are engaged in authorised school acvies
elsewhere.
Job Descripon
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• To aend assemblies and to supervise tutor groups while in assembly, unless the teacher wishes to opt out of any
religious aspect of assembly where this is against their beliefs.
• To accurately register pupils at a.m. and p.m. registraon and during lessons and at any other me necessary
before, during or aer school.
• To provide, as a Tutor, the individual contact, knowledge and support for pupils within the allocated tutor group
and to liaise with parents and other sta accordingly, as appropriate.
• To contribute to the personal and social educaon of pupils generally and specically through the teaching of the
PSE programme to the tutor group.
• To support all colleagues in ensuring that high standards of uniform and behaviour are maintained within the
school.
• To work with other colleagues to ensure that there is a consistent approach in ensuring pupils abide by the
school’s code of conduct and the same consistency in dealing with pupils who do not conform to school
rules.
• To make relevant records and reports as necessary.
Parents and the wider community:
• To communicate and consult with the parents of pupils when required.
• To communicate and co-operate with other persons and outside agencies as required.
• To parcipate in meengs arranged for any of the purposes described above.
• To foster good relaonships with parents.
Resources and Accommodaon
• To take responsibility for the care of resources, accommodaon and fabric of the school, parcularly when pupils
are present.
• To allocate, as appropriate, equipment and materials in connecon with his/her teaching.
Policies and Sta Handbook
• To ensure that all departmental and school policies are understood and complied with.
• To ensure that they have read and understands the contents of the Sta handbook and complies with all the
requirements detailed in the handbook.
Administraon
• To parcipate in administrave and organisaonal tasks related to the above dues.
Health and Safety
• To accept responsibility for own safety – as well as that of the pupils and colleagues with whom you
work.
• To undertake Health and Safety training oered.
• To be aware of Health and Safety issues and the hazards associated with manual handling tasks, including the
cumulave eect of repeated manual handling operaons.
• To follow any control measures and care plans required by the generic or individual risk
assessments.
• To be familiar with and use available equipment safely.
• To be aware of your own limitaons and inform your employer of any circumstances that may alter ability to
perform manual handling tasks.
• To report accidents and hazards.
• To report deciencies in the employer’s Health and Safety protecon arrangements.
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Working Time
The following is extracted from the School Teachers’ Pay and Condions Document.
• A teacher employed full-me shall be available for work for 195 days in any school year, of which 190 days shall be
days which they may be required to teach pupils in addion to carrying out other dues; and those 195 days will
be specied by the head teacher
• Such a teacher shall be available to perform dues at such mes and such places as may be specied by the head
teacher for 1265 hours in any school year, those hours to be allocated reasonably throughout those days in the
school year on which they are required to be available for work.
• Such a teacher shall work such addional hours as may be needed to enable them to discharge eecvely their
professional dues, including, in parcular, the marking of pupils’ work, the wring of reports on pupils and
the preparaon of lessons, teaching materials and teaching programmes. The amount of me required for this
purpose beyond the 1265 hours and the me outside the 1265 specied hours at which dues shall be performed
shall not be dened by the governors but shall depend upon the work needed to discharge the teacher’s
dues.
A summary of the directed me for teachers as allocated by the Headteacher is detailed in the sta
handbook.
The Working Time Regulaons 1998
All teachers are subject to the EU Working Time Regulaons which are described in paragraph 114 of DfEE Circular No.
12/99.
The dues / responsibilies of this post may vary from me to me according to the changing needs of the Trust
services.
Job Descripon
Person Specicaon
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Qualicaons
ESSENTIAL/
DESIRABLE
Qualied Teacher Status or willingness to work towards this. E
A Degree E
Experience
Teaching of specialist subject across all three key stages. E
Skills and Abilies
Ability to communicate posively with children. E
Ability to work supporvely and collaboravely within a team. E
Ability to reect upon and improve your teaching pracce. E
Knowledge
Knowledge of the Naonal Curriculum. E
Understanding of the issues surrounding the safeguarding of children and commitment to child welfare and
safety.
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A good understanding of the importance of literacy and numeracy across the curriculum. E
A good understanding of how to assess pupil progress. E
A good understanding of how to plan and assess work for vulnerable groups, such as SEN pupils, pupil
premium pupils and gied and talented pupils.
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Personal Qualies
Enthusiasm for your specialist subject. E
Ability to manage own workload. E
A commitment to own connuing professional development. E
Benets
• Discounts with local and naonal retailers, cinemas and restaurants
• Teachers Pension Scheme – with a generous employer contribuon
• Employee Referral Recruitment Incenve
• Access to training and development
Well-Being
• Employee Assistance Programme – Wellbeing and advice
• Cycle to Work scheme
• On-site Parking
Working at Meopham School
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Meopham School
Wrotham Rd, Meopham, Gravesend DA13 0AH
01474 814646
mss-recepon@swale.at
Closest Train Staon: Meopham Staon
Approx. 35 minute walk or 9 minute Bus
Closest Bus stop:
Secondary School -
223*, 305*, 306*, 308*, 311, 418R*, 418W*, 695*, VIGO1*
*go to/from Meopham Staon
Finding Us
Meopham Staon
Located in the heart of the village of Meopham, an area of outstanding natural beauty, we are commied to teaching
within tradional classroom spaces. Our £14 million main school building opened in Spring 2018. A second building is
currently under construcon, and is due for compleon in late Spring 2024. Once completed all teaching spaces will oer
state-of-the-art and inspiring modern learning environments.
Meopham School is parcularly proud of its highly consistent approach to teaching and learning. The Meopham ‘House
Style’ is our conrmaon of agreed principles of eecve teaching and learning. It is designed to support teachers at all
stages of their career to ensure that students in their care receive high quality learning opportunies.
It is our view that eecve lessons will have FIRE at their heart:
Include appropriate and eecve assessment and feedback opportunies;
Be fully inclusive and enable progress for all students;
Allow opportunies for retrieval of key idened knowledge and skills;
Smulate and encourage student curiosity, engagement and a love of learning.
“Leaders have high aspiraons for pupils and make sure that all experience eecve teaching overall.” (Ofsted April
2023)
Our curriculum is broad and balanced, and students benet from a wide suite of subjects designed to meet the needs of
tomorrow’s world. Essenal skills of literacy, oracy and numeracy are woven through lessons across the curriculum.
“Across subjects, sta have strong subject knowledge and give clear explanaons of lesson content. This was especially
evident in teaching in the Sixth Form.” (Ofsted April 2023)
At Meopham School we value children of all abilies, and oer a fully inclusive environment. We understand that every
child is unique, and so we tailor our teaching and curriculum to help all students reach their full potenal. Our aim is
to ensure each pupil makes the greatest possible progress from their own individual starng point. To do this we use
targets as oors to help raise aspiraons, not ceilings to limit their ambions.
“Leaders idenfy well the needs of pupils with special educaonal needs and/or disabilies (SEND). These pupils are well
supported through the adaptaons that teachers make for them in lessons.” (Ofsted April 2023)
Meopham School Overview
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The Applicaon Process
Applicaons will only be accepted from candidates compleng the appropriate applicaon form. All secons of the form
which are applicable to you must be completed as clearly and fully as possible.
Please note CVs will not be accepted in place of a completed applicaon form.
Applicaon forms can be found on the Kent-Teach website and applicaons should be made via this route. Alternavely,
completed SAT Applicaon Forms can be sent by email to [email protected]t or by post to the following address:
Mrs Diane Mills
Meopham School,
Wrotham Road,
Meopham,
Gravesend
DA13 0AH
The Shortlisng and Interview Process
Aer the closing date for this post a panel will conduct the shortlisng process. You will be selected for interview based
enrely on the contents of your applicaon form, it is therefore important that you fully read the Job Descripon and
Person Specicaon prior to compleng your form. Meopham School may complete online checks of any candidates as
part of the shortlisng process.
Aer the shortlisng process has been completed candidates who have been selected for interview will be informed,
and provided with full details of the interview programme. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the
closing date for this post, you have, on this occasion, unfortunately been unsuccessful.
All candidates who are invited to interview must bring the following original documents:
• Documentary evidence of right to work in the UK
• Visual idencaon which includes a photograph, usually a passport or driving licence
• Documentary proof of current name and address
• Where appropriate any documentaon evidencing change of name
• Cercates of educaonal or professional qualicaons that are necessary or relevant for the post
Condional Oer
Any oer of employment will be condional upon a number of formalies, including, but not restricted to the following:
• Vericaon of right to work in the UK
• Receipt of two sasfactory references
• Vericaon of identy checks and qualicaons
• Sasfactory enhanced DBS check, as well as addional checks that may be appropriate if you have
worked or been resident overseas in the previous ve years
• Sasfactory pre-employment health clearance
• A check against the Teacher Service Register for any teaching prohibion or restricon orders where
you are applying for a teaching role or if you have previously held a teaching role in past
employment.
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Safeguarding
Our Trust has robust safer recruitment procedures to help prevent unsuitable people from working with children.
All individuals working in any capacity at our Trust will be subjected to safeguarding checks in line with the statutory
guidance Keeping Children Safe in Educaon.
Retenon of informaon
All informaon is stored securely and any informaon supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through the
condenal waste system aer six months from the date of the interview, in accordance with our retenon of records
procedure.
Privacy Noce
Please refer to the Trust’s Privacy Noce for job applicants for informaon about how we use any personal data about
them we hold.
This can be downloaded here: hps://www.swale.at/page/?tle=Privacy+Noce&pid=33
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Overview of Swale Academies Trust
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Since its creaon in September 2010, Swale Academies Trust has developed into one of the South East’s leading Mul-
Academy Trusts.
Our purpose is to develop good and outstanding schools and ensure the rapid improvement of schools with
challenges.
As the Trust has grown and developed, we connue to ensure that eecve school support and leadership is
maintained. The Trust’s approach to school improvement is based on a combinaon of CPD, capacity building
and collaboraon, with a relentless focus on teaching and pupil progress, in order to eect rapid and sustained
improvements in outcomes for young people.q
The Trust is an organisaon which is driven by the belief that all children deserve a good quality educaon where they
are seen as individuals and above all are exceponally well cared for.
Swale Academies Trust - Schools
Primary
• Beaver Green Primary School, Ashford
• Istead Rise Primary School, Istead Rise
• James Dixon Primary School, Bromley
• Langney Primary Academy, Eastbourne
• Parkland Infant School, Eastbourne
• Parkland Junior School, Eastbourne
• Regis Manor Primary School, Singbourne
• Shinewater Primary School, Eastbourne
• South Borough Primary School, Maidstone
• Westlands Primary School, Singbourne
Secondary
• Meopham Secondary School, Meopham
• Peacehaven Community School, Eastbourne
• The Eastbourne Academy, Eastbourne
• The Holmesdale School, Snodland
• The North School, Ashford
• The Singbourne School, Singbourne
• The Turing School, Eastbourne
• The Whitstable School, Whitstable
• Westlands Secondary School, Singbourne
Central Support Services
• Human Resource Team
• Finance Team
• ICT Team
• Estate Management
• Governance and Communicaons
