Value proposition

Respect, Resilience and Responsibility

Working at OHA
No matter what your career stage working at Ormiston Horizon Academy provides you with opportunities to shape lives of really amazing young people, for career progression and job satisfaction.

Teaching is at the heart of our academy and we strive to give our students the best education we can in an environment they feel supported and enjoy coming to school.

Workload and Wellbeing
New staff to the academy are all offered a mentor from existing staff to touch base with and ask all those questions you’re not quite sure how to ask on your first day. We provide annual flu vaccinations for all academy staff, have a flexible and generous approach to family appointments and children’s events, are part of the childcare voucher scheme, have a free counselling service available to everyone and scheduled wellbeing weeks and days where we encourage all staff to leave site early to do something that makes them happy.

Workload challenges are understood and we have publicised deadlines and annual calendar consultations. Marking policies are adapted on an individual department basis and we actively encourage collaborative planning within departments.

Professional Development
At OHA we take a bespoke approach to professional development and have made adaptions in our timetable to support our staff giving dedicated CPD time each week. This programme is shared half-termly and a combination of whole school CPD, departmental CPD, career stage CPD or even individualised support where requested or required.

As a school we are part of a large multi-academy trust and the opportunity this provides for professional development for all our staff is extensive.