Assistant Director of English

Q3 Academy Tipton, Tipton, West Midlands, DY4 7NR

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  3 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  20 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 Hours a week, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS
• Additional allowances:

  TLR2B

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• To be responsible for adding value to every learner in each teaching group benchmarked against national criteria and data.
• To plan and quality assure curriculum planning and delivery to ensure that all students are appropriately challenged and supported to achieve their full potential.
• To support colleagues in the improvement of the quality of teaching and learning, in line with the whole school mission for students to: know more, do more, achieve more.
• Identify opportunities for wider-curriculum contribution in English.
• To work as part of an exceptional area that ensures creative and innovative learning and teaching occurs in every lesson.
• Contribute to school improvement.

Interview's will be held w/c 10th February 2025

If you are incredible, and want to help our students be incredible too, we look forward to hearing from you and joining us on our journey to be the absolute best we can be.

We welcome and encourage visits to our school to see us in action.

What the school offers its staff

Q3 Academy Tipton has high expectations for all students and is one of nine schools in the Mercian Academy Trust. We focus on our goal to be incredible in everything that we do, in order to help students to: Know more, Do more and Achieve more. Our values of Kindness, Ambition, Resilience and Respect run through all that we do, representing our large and diverse community and supporting upholding our high standards for all.

We have a rare opportunity to join our incredible school as Assistant Director of English. You will be an ambitious, resilient, motivated and compassionate leader with a proven track record of outstanding teaching and raising standards of both students and other staff. The school is on a rapid improvement journey and you will need to be fully committed to investing time, effort and expertise with all teams at the school to further contribute to this journey.

English is taught up to and including A Level, where it is increasingly popular. As Assistant Director, you will be part of the school's middle leadership team, supporting the Director of English to deliver an incredible curriculum and enhance life chances for students. You will particularly take a lead on the quality of education in English.

You will be joining a large and collaborative staff team with significant CPD and well-being benefits. As a school, we continue to focus on how we support staff to make sure that they can support the students in the best ways possible. You may be new to leadership, or more experienced, but we are committed to supporting you every step of the way; we are a genuine team.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
All post holders are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service Check (DBS) and satisfactory employment references, as well as identification and qualification checks which will be required before commencing duties.
All appointments are subject to two satisfactory references and online search.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

About Q3 Academy Tipton

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1587 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Q3 Academy Tipton website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: jasmine.gill@merciantrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/q3-academy-tipton (opens in new tab)

Q3 Tipton has high expectations for all students and is one of nine schools in the Mercian Academy Trust. We embed the ethos of the Trust: “To live life to the full in pursuit of that which is good, right and true” and are passionate about social equality within our community. “Pupils understand expectations and appreciate the positive environment. Teachers treat pupils as individuals, and pupils welcome this. Pupils feel confident to ‘be themselves’ in this inclusive community” (Ofsted, 2022).

We are a large inclusive and diverse 11 – 19 school. Our students come from many backgrounds, speak different languages and follow different faiths. Students are encouraged to join our advocate groups: anti-racism, anti-sexism, pro-LGBTQIA+ and inter-faith. We are fully committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all. We are proud that our staff body reflects the diversity of our student community including our middle and senior leaders.

Arranging a visit to Q3 Academy Tipton

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jasmine.gill@merciantrust.org.uk.

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