Employment Opportunities

Working at Newton Prep

Newton Prep’s most important resource is its staff and the school aims to recruit, reward and retain the best. Small classes of well motivated and talented pupils, generous pay and conditions, the chance to work in the nation’s capital city are just some of the reasons why teachers come to Newton. But perhaps the main reason we are able to recruit the best is that this is a happy school.


Everyone working at Newton Prep should be:

  • Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
  • Appropriately qualified for his or her particular role
  • Hardworking, honest and conscientious
  • Willing to go on learning
  • Loyal to the School and supportive of its aims and objectives
  • Willing to abide by the School’s terms and conditions of employment

All Teachers should be:

  • Committed to the welfare of the children in their care
  • Prepared to set an example to the young in their language, conduct, attitudes and dress
  • Motivated to work with children and young people
  • Able to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people
  • Emotional resilient in working with challenging behaviours
  • Positive in their attitude to use of authority and maintaining discipline
  • Knowledgeable and interested in their subject
  • Willing to go on learning about their subject
  • Willing to undertake training as part of their CPD
  • Literate
  • ICT literate
  •  Prepared to play a full role in the life of their departments
  • Participate in extra-curricular activities
  • Attend staff meetings and school INSET sessions
  • Cheerful
  • Punctual
  • Enthusiastic
  • Patient 
  • Inspiring
  • Good communicators with pupils, colleagues and parents

Senior Teachers should be:

  • Committed to the welfare of the children in their care
  • Committed to the welfare of their junior colleagues
  •  An inspiration to their colleagues
  • An inspiration to their pupils
  • Thoughtful and considered in their advice
  • Temperate in their opinions
  • Efficient in their use of time
  • Timely with their paperwork
  •  A source of wisdom to those with less experience
  • Calm and resourceful in the face of difficulty
  • Good at encouraging and mentoring more junior colleagues
  • Able to lead their department or section by example in all things
  • Always prepared to act in their department’s or section’s best interests

Please note that Newton Prep is an equal opportunities employer.

Newton Prep is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Please look on the vacancies page for details of posts we are currently seeking to fill.

 

 

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