Geography Teacher

Role: Teacher of Geography - Temporary role for maternity cover

Academy: Outwood Academy Portland

Start Date: 01/09/2026

Salary (Actual Salary): 32916 - 51048

Working Pattern: 32.5 Hours Per Week Full Time

Are you a dedicated and highly effective educator committed to raising the achievement of all students within your subject area Join us as a Teacher where you will be instrumental in delivering high-quality learning utilising a range of teaching and learning strategies to ensure student success.

This position requires a professional who is aware of strategies for improving learning understands curriculum developments and is creative in finding solutions to enhance student performance.

Welcome from the Principal:

We are a welcoming and supportive academy with a relentless determination to provide the very best education for every child. We place students at the centre of everything we do with a focus on creating a culture of success and a positive climate for learning. We have an exceptional culture and student behaviour which is recognised by being a host school for the Exemplary Leadership Programme.

Overwhelmingly staff are upbeat about the school. They value the positive changes in the schools culture. They appreciate training opportunities. They welcome steps to make their workload more manageable. Staff morale is positive and they are very proud to be part of the school. - Ofsted November 2024.

We have created an educational environment where staff and students constantly strive to improve; where teachers sharpen their skills and expand their repertoires to deliver an outstanding learning experience; and where teachers classroom assistants mentors tutors inclusion support assistants and students operate as a seamless team. This enables everybody staff and students to not only see but also help fulfil the potential in each other.

We believe our success speaks for itself as we are above the national average for the number of students achieving at a Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs. We are also proud to have been awarded Bronze Status by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health Award.

We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first raising standards and transforming lives into practice.

All academies within the Outwood Family have gained the IQM Inclusive Schools Award with 18 having Centre of Excellence status and one holding Flagship status.

If you share our vision join our family.

Outwood Academy Portlands Humanities department is a hugely popular one within the school students often comment on how approachable kind and enthusiastic we are. We consist of 3 geographers 5 historians and 1 RS specialist; all who love working here and are passionate about securing the best outcomes for our students. We share the Scott corridor aptly named after the famous Antarctic explorer and all of the Humanities classrooms are resourced with interactive whiteboards visualisers and ample storage which will enable you to teach in a variety of addition to this we share a small workroom with several computers fridge freezer and nearly always a selection of snacks! And if snacks and a fridge arent what you are looking for we also have a range of teaching and learning books to support professional development as well as a selection of subject books and subscriptions to professional organisations such as the Historical Association.

Wellbeing and management of workload is a priority for the department and we work collaboratively whenever possible and often share resources and planning. We all want the best for our students and by sharing expertise and best practices we believe we can achieve this. The amazing Reprographics department is also always available to help with printing and resource making for lessons and this support is invaluable. We help each other whenever we can which includes support with planning marking and sometimes even teaching. As a team we share the view that whilst our job is often challenging we do it because it is hard and because of the positive impact we have on our amazing students day in day out.