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Assistant Director of Learning - Maths

Heath Lane Academy, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE9 7PD

This job expired on 21 April 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  21 August 2025

• Closing date

  21 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  7 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Other leadership roles
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Mathematics
• Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share): 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: ULT Teacher Scale (£35,000 – £51,000 pa)
• Additional allowances:

  £5,085 TLR

What skills and experience we're looking for

Job Purpose

• Assist the Director of Learning in ensuring high quality teaching and learning, achievement and progress of pupils in the faculty
• Be a lead practitioner; working strategically to improve the quality of teaching and learning across the faculty
• Assist the Director of Learning in delivering a clear shared vision for the development of outstanding teaching and learning and a culture of high expectations within the faculty
• Raising standards across the faculty and Academy. Monitoring and evaluating the performance of the faculty and ensuring consistency
• To lead on aspects of the faculty as delegated by the Director of Learning, to deliver high quality academic provision and support to pupils. This may include:

- Ensuring high quality curriculum

- Planning, monitoring and evaluation

- Behaviour for learning

- Resources

- The learning environment

- Performance management

- Data and intervention

Safeguarding

• To uphold the academy’s policies in respect of Safeguarding and Child Protection and ensure the safety and well-being of all learners.

Responsibilities and Tasks

This list is not meant to provide a narrow definition of specific responsibilities but to serve as guidance and should be seen as enabling rather than restrictive.

Main Core Duties

• Deputise of the Director of Learning, as required
• To work as an active member of the Middle Leadership Team, the engine room of the school, driving school improvement
• To assist the Director of Learning in ensuring that all staff within the faculty are effective operationally in order that the Academy meets performance targets, and that individual pupils meet their personal targets
• To ensure that all staff within the faculty deliver according to the Academy’s vision
• To ensure that the faculty and Academy is a safe and secure environment
• To coordinate an aspect of curriculum delivery within the faculty, this may be a subject/key stage as agreed with the Director of Learning
• Assist the Director of Learning in identifying relevant faculty development issues, and support the implementation of an appropriate action plan to ensure improvement. Evaluate the impact of all improvement activities on the quality of teaching and learning.
• To strategically work with faculty staff to improve the quality of teaching and learning through effective mentoring and coaching. Support staff in planning and implementing strategies to achieve pupil progress target levels and objectives. Review impact of strategies and prepare reports on the effectiveness of intervention strategies
• To deliver on the Faculty action plan by guiding Faculty staff on:

- Planning and delivering high quality lessons

- Behaviours for learning

- Effective marking and feedback

- Homework

• Promote high expectations of pupils, identify appropriate attainment targets and ensure that agreed attainment targets are met
• Monitor pupil standards and achievement against annual targets, acting as a champion for most able pupils and those in receipt of Pupil Premium funding.

Service provision

• Assist the Director of Learning in ensuring that faculty staff (and especially those line managed) are in touch with the families as necessary and supporting pupils as required, in order to ensure the success of all pupils
• Assist the Director of Learning in ensuring that faculty staff (and especially those line managed) have the necessary resources and direction to deliver according to the Academy’s vision
• To appreciate and support the role of other professionals
• To be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the Academy
• Provide up to date and relevant data on performance
• Ensure that all staff line managed in the faculty are able to use the performance information necessary for them to deliver service improvement in their own roles
• Work with the other Directors and Assistant Directors of Learning within the Cluster to maximise opportunities for collaboration.

Service Development

• Ensuring value for money and performance improvement in Academy’s provision. Use financial and resource management innovatively and effectively, ensuring an optimum quality of learning environment in the subject
• To develop the faculty and curriculum provision being mindful of national developments
• To keep the work of the faculty constantly under review against key performance indicators:

- Academic performance

- Parental complaints

- Pupil behaviour indicators

• To be responsible for personal CPD and participate fully in training and development opportunities identified by United Learning or as an outcome of performance management.

Staff Development

• Act as a role model of good classroom practice for other staff, modelling effective strategies for them. Monitor and evaluate the quality of planning and provide constructive feedback. Hold colleagues to account, and effectively manage conflict and relationships
• Support the Director in identifying CPD needs for the faculty. Lead and contribute to internal CPD which delivers a continuously improving service as measured by performance targets
• Act as performance manager for a number of faculty staff, ensuring challenging and appropriate targets are set and reviewed. Plan and implement strategies to improve teaching where needed
• Support the induction of new staff.

Planning, Teaching and Class Management

• Identifying clear teaching objectives and specifying how pupils will be taught and assessed
• Setting tasks which challenge pupils and ensure high levels of interest
• Setting appropriate and demanding expectations
• Setting clear targets, building on prior attainment
• Be aware of and make provision for pupils who are AEN/SEN, very able, LAC or
• who have other particular individual needs
• Providing clear structures for lessons maintaining pace, motivation and challenge
• Making effective use of assessment and ensure coverage of programmes of study
• Ensuring effective teaching and best use of available time
• Maintaining discipline in accordance with the academy's procedures and encouraging good practice with regard to punctuality, behaviour, standards of work and homework
• Manage learners’ behaviour constructively by establishing and maintaining a clear and positive framework for discipline, in line with the academy’s behaviour policy
• Using a variety of teaching methods to:

- Match approach to content, structure information, present a set of key ideas and use appropriate vocabulary

- Use effective questioning, listen carefully to pupils, give attention to errors and misconceptions

- Select appropriate learning resources and develop study skills through library, I.C.T. and other sources

• Ensuring pupils acquire and consolidate knowledge, skills and understanding appropriate to the subject taught
• Evaluating own teaching critically to improve effectiveness
• Ensuring the effective and efficient deployment of classroom support
• Liaise with the Programme Leader to ensure the implementation of department policy and best practice.
• Assessing how well learning objectives have been achieved and using them to improve specific aspects of teaching
• Marking and monitoring pupils' work and setting targets for progress
• Assessing and recording pupils' progress systematically and keeping records to check work is understood and completed, monitoring strengths and weaknesses, to inform planning and assess the level at which the pupils’ are achieving
• Undertaking assessment of pupils as requested by examination bodies, departmental and academy procedures
• Preparing and presenting informative reports to parents
• Undertaking assessment of pupils and participating in the academy’s system reporting to parents
• If required, be a coach to an assigned group of pupils or a link coach
• Promote the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and of the group as a whole
• Liaise with the pastoral team to ensure the implementation of the academy's pastoral system
• Register pupils, accompany them to assemblies, encourage their full attendance at all lessons and their participation in other aspects of academy life
• Contribute to the preparation of action plans and progress files and other reports
• Alert appropriate staff to problems experienced by pupils.
• Have a working knowledge of teachers' professional duties and legal liabilities
• Operate at all times within the stated policies and practices of the academy
• Know subject(s) or specialism(s) to enable effective teaching
• Take account of wider curriculum developments
• Establish effective working relationships and set a good example through their presentation and personal and professional conduct
• Endeavour to give every child the opportunity to reach their potential and meet high expectations
• Co-operate with other staff to ensure a sharing and effective usage of resources to the benefit of the Academy, department and pupils
• Contribute to the corporate life of the academy through effective participation in meetings and management systems necessary to coordinate the management of the academy
• Take part in marketing and liaison activities such as Open Evenings and Parents Evenings
• Take responsibility for own professional development and duties in relation to academy policies and practices
• Liaise effectively with parents
• Work as a team member and identify opportunities for working with colleagues and sharing the development of effective practice with them
• Lead or help to lead an after-school activity once per week; either curriculum based or an extra curricula club.
• To fully subscribe to the Academy Values of Hardwork, Kindness and Respect in regard to themselves, the academy and our young people
• Work towards and support the academy’s vision and the objectives
• Support and contribute to the academy’s responsibility for safeguarding pupils
• Work within the academy’s Health and Safety policy to ensure a safe working environment for staff, pupils and visitors
• Work within the academy’s Community Cohesion and Equal Opportunities policies to promote equality of opportunity for all pupils and staff, both current and prospective
• Maintain high professional standards of attendance, punctuality, appearance, conduct and positive, courteous relations with pupils, parents and colleagues
• Engage actively in the performance review process
• Adhere to academy policies, procedures and core values as set out in the documentation available to all staff.

What the school offers its staff

More pay, more time, more support

• We pay an average of 5% above national scales – the best rates of pay in the sector
• Cash towards medical treatment
• Generous staff discount scheme
• Three extra INSET days for planning
• One personal day a year
• Great training for your career
• Exceptional curriculum resources
• Expert subject advice
• Support for your wellbeing

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Candidate Application Pack - ADoL - Maths.docx - 867 KB (opens in new tab)

About Heath Lane Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 698 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Heath Lane Academy website
• Email address: melanie.osborne@heathlaneacademy.org.uk
• Phone number: 01455845061
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heath-lane-academy

Arranging a visit to Heath Lane Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email melanie.osborne@heathlaneacademy.org.uk.

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