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POSITION: Teacher of Geography to GCSE with Science KS3
DURATION: Full-Time Temporary for 2 years
DESCRIPTION: Duties include:
• Teaching, according to their educational needs, the students assigned to him/her, including
the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the student in school and elsewhere.
• Contributing to the curricular and extra-curricular needs, of the Geography Department in
the school.
• Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of
students.
• Promoting the general progress and well-being of individual students and of any class or
group of students assigned to him/her.
• Providing guidance and advice to students on education and social matters and on their
further education and future careers including information about sources of more expert
advice on specific questions; making relevant records and reports.
• Making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of students except in
instances where to do so might be regarded as compromising a teacher's own position.
• Communicating and consulting with the parents of students.
• Communicating and co-operating with persons or bodies outside the school as may be
approved by the school authorities
• Participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above.
• Providing or contributing to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating
to individual students and groups of students.
• Participate if required in any scheme of staff development and performance review.2
• Reviewing from time to time his/her methods of teaching and programmes of work.
• Participating in arrangements for his/her further training and professional development as
a teacher.
• Advising and co-operating with the principal and other teachers (or any one or more of
them) on the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials,
teaching programmes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements.
• Maintaining good order and discipline among students in accordance with the policies of
employing authorities and safeguarding their health and safety both when they are
authorised to be on the school premises and when they are engaged in authorised school
activities elsewhere.
• Participating in meetings at the school which relate to the curriculum for the school or the
administration or organisation of the school, including pastoral arrangements.
• Participating in arrangements for preparing students for public examinations and in
assessing students for the purposes of such examinations; recording and reporting such
assessments; and participating in arrangements for students' presentation for and
supervision during such examinations.
• Taking such part as may be required of him/her in the review, development and
management of activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of
the school.
• Participating in administrative and organisational tasks related to such duties as are
described above, including the management or supervision of persons providing support
for the teachers in the school and the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials.
• Attending school assemblies.
• Registering the attendance of students and supervising students, whether these duties are
to be performed before, during or after school.
This job description is not a comprehensive statement of procedures and tasks but sets out the
main expectations of the Board of Governors in relation to the post holder’s professional
responsibilities and duties.
Posts involving work in educational establishments are subject to the provision of the Protection
of Children and Vulnerable Adults (NI) Order 2003.
EMPLOYER: Sacred Heart Grammar School
LOCATION: Newry
CLOSING DATE: The closing date for receipt of applications is 12 Noon on Wednesday 7 May 2025
APPLY: www.shsnewry.com
