Assistant Headteacher - Teaching and Learning
David Nieper Academy, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 7JA6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
7 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- L9-L13
Assistant Headteacher - Teaching and Learning job summary
Assistant Headteacher - Teaching and Learning
As a member of the David Nieper Academy leadership team, you will:
Think strategically while being able to deal with immediate challenges
Provide opportunities for staff to grow and develop
Set a high standard through personal example
Contribute in a variety of ways to the day to day running of the academy
General role responsibilities
To strategically lead all aspects of teaching and learning across the academy
To have an oversight, lead and organise the Continuous Professional Development programme across the academy
To lead, monitor and review the teaching and learning quality assurance policies and procedures
To continually evaluate the effectiveness of our teaching and learning and provide the vision to drive its development
To monitor and evaluate learner experience within the classroom
To ensure that work related opportunities and employability skills are embedded within the curriculum and delivered to a high standard across all year groups
To contribute to the academy development plan and academy self-evaluation, providing regular reports to governors
To make a full contribution to the wider leadership and management of the academy
To have a teaching commitment of approximately 30% - any subject area will be considered
Specific responsibilities
Teaching and Learning academy strategy
Work with the Headteacher, Senior Leadership Team, Governors and Employer Partners to
Review and evaluate the current quality of teaching and learning across the academy
Review and evaluate the current teaching and learning academy strategy
Produce a clear action plan to enhance rapidly the quality of teaching and learning to in each year group and faculty, providing sustainable strategies that will allow future improvements
Ensure that the academy teaching and learning strategy supports the Christopher Nieper Education Trust (CNET) vision and supports the development of high-quality employability skills making sustainable links with our employer partners
Be responsible for the academy teaching and learning policy
Continuous Professional Development
To create, lead, monitor and evaluate the teaching and learning continuous professional development programme across the academy
To identify the key priorities in relation to continuous professional development needs
To design and lead high quality bespoke professional development
To oversee and build upon the existing programme of instructional coaching for teaching staff
To lead on and coordinate any teacher support plans to ensure rapid and sustained improvement in practice
To coordinate all aspects of the Academy’s Early Career Teacher induction and Initial Teacher Education programmes.
Effectively manage the continuous professional development budget
Quality assurance of teaching and learning
To lead and oversee the quality assurance of teaching and learning in a transparent manner to ensure that good practice is shared with all, and any areas of development identified are addressed promptly
To create a quality assurance calendar of activities to effectively evaluate the impact of CPD and assess the impact of teaching across the Academy
To lead teaching and learning reviews producing and implementing an appropriative action plan
To lead training of SLT and Heads of Faculty to ensure consistency of approach when quality assuring teaching and learning
To lead staff training to ensure that all are provided with adequate support, guidance, and advice regarding high quality teaching and learning
Teaching and learning development
To keep abreast of national and international developments in teaching and learning and share best practice with the SLT, Heads of Faculty, teaching staff and governors
To work in conjunction with Assistant Head Inclusion and other senior leaders to ensure that high quality teaching and learning supports the wider aims of the academy
Learner experience
To evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning from all stakeholder perspectives
To continuously seek learner feedback on the impact of teaching and learning
To work closely with parents to engage them fully in their children’s progress
Employability skills
To work with the Assistant Headteacher for Personal Development and Employability:
o To ensure that work related opportunities and employability skills are embedded within the curriculum and delivered to a high standard across all year groups
o To work in partnership with employer partners and teachers to ensure that the academy teaching and learning has a clear focus on developing employability skills
Accountability
Be responsible for producing a teaching and learning development plan and relevant sections of the SEF
Lead and co-ordinate the SLT/ link governor teaching and learning meetings
Prepare and present reports on teaching and learning and performance management for governors and CEO as required.
Personal characteristics:
1. Excellent classroom practitioner
2. Hardworking
3. Enthusiastic
4. High levels of emotional intelligence
5. Resilient
6. Ability to inspire and lead others
7. A strong team player
Solution focused, looking for positive outcomes
Commitment to safeguarding
The Governing Body is committed to the safeguarding of children and young people, so all staff appointments are subject to employment checks and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
Candidates should indicate an acceptance of, and a commitment to, the Academy’s policies in relation to equality and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
It is an offence to apply for this role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Please follow the below link to view the Christopher Nieper Education Trust Safeguarding/Child Protection Policy https://davidnieper.academy/about-us/academy-policies/
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About David Nieper Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 775 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- David Nieper Academy website
Our Academy is sponsored by the Christopher Nieper Education Trust (previously David Nieper Education Trust), together with local employer partners, who are highly committed in supporting the development and achievements of our students. With a clearly defined approach to teaching, applied learning and brand-new purpose-built facilities, which opened in February 2017, we believe that this is a truly exciting time to join the academy. We are a growing academy now of 780 students 11-18 and will soon be at our full capacity of 850 students 11-18. This role is a new post due to our growing pupil numbers. Our September 2022 Ofsted Inspection graded the academy as ‘Good in all areas’, a fantastic improvement from the ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating when we took over the academy - and we endeavour to build on this as we grow and develop further. We are currently the only academy within the Trust however the Trust is likely to grow in the very near future with a number of other schools actively looking to join.
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