Assistant Head of Faculty
Countesthorpe Academy, Countesthorpe, LE8 5PRThis job expired on 10 May 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Autumn Term 2024
Closing date
10 May 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
1 May 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TRL2c
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential
Qualified Teacher
At least 3 years teaching experience
Understanding of current curriculum issues
Understanding of the importance of the inter-relationship between all areas of the curriculum in a secondary school
Understanding of the importance of ICT to aid monitoring of student progress across the curriculum
Understanding of the range of teaching strategies appropriate to the curriculum area
Understanding of the importance of team leadership in a Faculty
Knowledge of effective team and budget management
Ability to be a part of the Academy’s extended leadership team
Understanding of collective responsibility and accountability
Ability to communicate effectively with staff, students, parents and governors
Ability to work with colleagues in the MAT
Understanding of the importance of supportive student/teacher relationships
Understanding of the range of factors which affect students’ progress
Ability to communicate effectively with young people
Ability to deal with student behaviour issues
Ability to analyse data on student progress and work with staff and students on the use of data for target setting
Understanding the importance of the partnership between Parents and Countesthorpe and the LiFE Multi Academy Trust
Understanding of the Philosophy of Countesthorpe Academy and its wider community
Ability to develop good relationships
Good communication skills
High level of commitment to the Academy
Ability to promote Countesthorpe Academy in our local and national community
Ability to work in a team, be self-organising and to meet deadlines
Ability to work under pressure
Record of good attendance
Desirable
Degree in a relevant area
Evidence of post-qualification development
Experience of working in a Specialist School
Experience of working with young people in the 11 to 19 age range.
Evidence of clear ideas about how the curriculum could develop to meet the need of all abilities
Evidence of ability to advise staff on curricular issues and student progress
Evidence of the use of technology skills in monitoring student progress
Evidence of effective team leadership and management
Evidence of being an effective member of a team
Evidence of successfully leading a curriculum initiative
Evidence of contributing to a significant curriculum change
Evidence of leading staff development opportunities
Evidence of effective collaboration with colleagues in other phases
Evidence of effective relationships with young people
Examples of a variety of strategies used with students to promote achievement and positive behaviour
Evidence of the use of data analysis to promote achievement
Evidence of supportive/developmental work with staff to improve behaviour management skills
Evidence of involvement with Community groups and/or Parents
Evidence of good working relations with a range of people
Evidence of a willingness to work hard
Be able to demonstrate that she/he has successfully worked as part of a team and be able to meet deadlines and achieve targets
What the school offers its staff
Professional Capital:
‘We believe in getting the right people, getting them to work together and getting them to stay’
Strategy
Description
Putting your trust in our Trust
We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young people. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.
Coaching
Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching; enabling deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a bold, creative and aspirational culture, where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.
Personal Improvement Plan
versus Performance Management
Instead of the usual Performance Management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement not pass or fail numerical targets.
Health and Wellbeing Strategies
Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The Trust is committed to:
- providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work
- recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important
- providing a supportive workplace culture where individuals healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged
We are committed to supporting colleagues to overcome the stigma and discrimination of mental health issues within the work place. To show our commitment to this we have publicly signed up to ‘Mindful Employer’ and the ‘Charter for Employers who are Positive about Mental Health’.
We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance, offering support to staff on managing stress and workload, as well as a physical activity programme.Access to coaching, counselling and supervision is also available to all staff.
Equality and Equal Opportunities
Our Trust and its schools are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in line with the Equality Act 2010. The Trust seeks to reduce disadvantages, discrimination and inequalities of opportunity, and promote diversity in terms of its students, workforce and our wider communities we serve.
Our Offer to staff in the LiFE Multi Academy Trust and our schools continued..
Presumed Professionalism
We have a ‘Presumed Professionalism’ ethos across the Trust. Our staff are professional educators and we recognise the need to support staff to enable a healthy work life balance to allow maximum impact whilst working with our young people and each other. We achieve this by allowing staff to sign out during their free periods, as long as professional duties are not affected. See our policy for further details.
Development of Professional Capital andExcellence
As a Trust we always look to invest in our staff and pride ourselves on our ‘home grown talent’. We are proud of this and believe this has the biggest impact on how our staff understand their communities and make a difference to the lives of our young people.
Quite simply, our aim is to employ people who match our ethos and values and enable them to truly collaborate with colleagues across the Trust so that they are satisfied professionally. We provide outstanding training pathways which draw on excellence both within and outside of our Trust to enable you to build your professional capital.
Examples of the many opportunities we encourage staff to take up externally include:
- The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL)
- The National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
- The National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML)
- The Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP)
- Initial Teacher Training (ITT)
Pathways are available at apprenticeship level, ECT (Early career teachers), aspiring middle leader, Lead Practitioner and aspiring senior leader level. Some of these courses are led by staff within the Trust and others are externally accredited. In addition, the Trust provides the opportunity of becoming an associate SLT member, enabling middle leaders to gain insight and experience of leadership at the highest level within a school.
Support staff have their own Personal Improvement Plan that they use as a tool to create a bespoke professional development plan. All support staff also receive Coaching and training opportunities, in order to help them feel empowered and in charge of their own development.
Across the Trust we pride ourselves on equal opportunities for all staff, irrespective of background, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.
Great access to progression and leadership responsibility
Further evidence of our investment in ‘home grown talent’ is that 86% of our TLR holders have been internal appointments. We have clear professional progression pathways within the CPD offered throughout the year at all levels within the Trust.
Collaboration across all schools
We are continually developing relationships across our Trust to enable collaboration to support learning and teaching outcomes. In addition, we are able to offer a joint CPD programme to draw upon expertise across the Trust. Staff work and meet regularly in teams across schools in the Trust and we hold an annual Strategic Planning Day, where each member of the Trust work together.
Sabbatical and flexible working policies
We have developed a unique sabbatical policy to support staff to develop their interests. For some, this has been to develop professionally, whilst others have taken this time to experience travel with their family. See our policy for further details.
Flexible working arrangements are also promoted across the Trust where possible, to enable our staff to manage their work life and family commitments.
Strong Induction Process
It is important to us that every member of staff has the right start to working in our Trust. The importance of a good induction is invaluable for new starters irrespective of previous experience. To support this, we have a New Staff Induction Day before the start of term, which enables colleagues to get a real understanding of what the school is about and what it means to be part of the Trust. This day also prepares new staff for our training (conference) days at the beginning of the Autumn term. In addition to this ALL staff are invited to visit a series of lessons across the school year.
ECT Programme
We offer early career teachers a robust, supportive and bespoke training programme which will enable you to develop into an outstanding teacher.
Continued ECT support
Where possible we try to ensure that ECTs and second year teachers have reduced teaching loads to allow them more opportunities for CPD throughout the school week. This also allows for peer to peer observations and additional coaching to take place to develop their practice.
3D Networks
3D Networks are an opportunity for faculties to share good practice and new ideas with colleagues across the school, based on our unique 3D Learning and Teaching model.
Attendance of staff
Our staff are committed to their roles and ensure that students are supported to maximise their outcomes. Levels of attendance are exceptionally high across all staff and well above national averages in the education sector and beyond.
We are always looking for highly quality teachers and support staff who buy into our values across the LiFE Multi Academy Trust and our schools
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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About Countesthorpe Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1232 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Countesthorpe Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@clcc.college
- Phone number
- 0116 2771555
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