Assistant Head of English Department
Calthorpe Park School, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 5JAThis job expired on 14 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Closing date
14 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
28 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR
Additional allowances
TLR2 b of £5,650 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
- A teacher must set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge students
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Promote good progress and outcomes by students
- Demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to establish good and productive working relationships, and work well in a team
- Teach to the Top and provide appropriate scaffolding and support to enable all students to achieve their potential
- Make accurate and productive use of assessment and its analysis
- Manage behaviour and support the management of behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment
- Fulfil wider professional responsibilities
- Teachers uphold public trust in the profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school
- Teachers must have proper and professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school in which they teach and maintain high standards in their own attendance and punctuality.
- Teachers must have an understanding of, and always act within, the statutory frameworks which set out their professional duties and responsibilities.
- Honours degree
- A postgraduate teaching qualification including QTS
- Knowledge and understanding of the curriculum subject
- A proven track record of delivering on academic performance
- Ability to teach English at KS3 and GCSE level
- Experience of using a range of teaching and learning strategies for whole classes, individuals and groups which stimulate, challenge, engage and motivate students
What the school offers its staff
The English Department at Calthorpe Park School is committed to promoting and motivating progression in all areas of English. We have a record of excellent organisation and learning initiatives which have resulted in outstanding examination success. We work cohesively and ensure consistency across all teaching groups and have high expectations of all students. Our students enjoy the learning and teaching of the subject.
Some of our benefits include;
- Top grades in English across Hampshire
- Free parking on-site
- Discounted Everyone Active membership
- Modern Facilities and on-site barista cafe
- Focus on Staff Wellbeing and mental health
- Extensive learning and training opportunities
- Excellent Teachers' Pension Scheme
- Access to Hampshire benefits
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Calthorpe Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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About Calthorpe Park School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1644 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Calthorpe Park School website
- Email address
- school.recruitment@cps.hants.sch.uk
Calthorpe Park School is a highly successful place to learn and grow. The school’s recent growth has created many ongoing opportunities for staff to develop, enhance and advance their careers within the same institution.
We pride ourselves on the excellence of our exam results but our ethos is to support all students to have the opportunity to succeed and the experience of success in a culture of respect, integrity, kindness, aspiration and resilience. These four are the tenets of ‘The Calthorpe Way’. We aim to educate the whole child for the whole of their life by inspiring minds, shaping characters and nurturing futures.
Our centralised disruption free learning behaviour policy insures calm and purposeful lessons for all our students and teachers
Arranging a visit to Calthorpe Park School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email school.recruitment@cps.hants.sch.uk.
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