Associate Assistant Headteacher & Subject Leader for Maths
Sir James Smith's School, Camelford, Cornwall, PL32 9UJThis job expired on 1 December 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Easter 2025 or September 2025 is possible
Closing date
1 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £57,831.00 - £63,815.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership Scale L7 to L11
Associate Assistant Headteacher & Subject Leader for Maths job summary
Sir James Smith’s is a mixed 11-16 comprehensive, situated on the North Cornish Coast between Bude and Wadebridge, close to stunning beaches and countryside. We are looking to appoint an excellent and highly motivated full time Associate Assistant Headteacher & Subject Leader for Maths to join our well-resourced department. The successful candidate will be passionate about teaching and learning in Maths and will have the ability to motivate students and develop staff to share that enthusiasm.
As Subject Leader, you will be able to inspire effective teaching and learning within the department and foster a climate of collective responsibility for students’ success:
We are looking for a Subject Leader committed to ensuring all students make good progress in their learning. The successful candidate will be able to teach consistently engaging lessons tailored to meet the needs of all students. They will be joining a strong team of teachers and a school committed to developing staff and students to their full potential.
We would like you:
- to inspire effective teaching and learning;
- to be capable of outstanding teaching;
- to have high expectations of yourself and our students;
- to be a team player with an abundance of energy and enthusiasm.
We can offer you the opportunity to work:
- in a Maths Department that is passionate about achievement for all pupils;
- with fantastic students who enjoy a dynamic and engaging curriculum;
- within a diligent team of excellent professionals who have a wealth of expertise and experience;
- with a driven and inspirational department in pursuit of excellence;
- with a strong induction programme tailored to your experience and needs;
- with relevant external organisations to continuously drive standards forward;
- collaboratively within a very supportive environment where professional development is an essential aspect of our daily practice;
- to develop your career;
- to create outstanding student experiences in Maths learning for all.
As Associate Assistant Headteacher, you will provide professional leadership for the school which secures its success and improvement, with a whole school strategic focus on numeracy, data and assessment, ensuring high quality teaching and learning, for all students and improved standards of learning and achievement. In addition to those professional responsibilities which are common to all classroom teachers in the school, and which are outlined in the accompanying job description, the postholder’s key accountability will be:
- lead and co-ordinate approaches across the school to ensure the numeracy, data and assessment needs of all students are met holding staff accountable for the quality of provision;
- to ensure students feel safe and valued and that the Maths team makes a significant and sustained contribution to the wider school provision:
- To design, implement and monitor the delivery of the Maths curriculum:
- To generate and make a significant contribution to the provision of high-quality teaching and learning at whole school level.
If you feel that you have the energy, passion, resilience and drive to be part of making Sir James Smith’s School outstanding, we would love to have you on our team. Visits to the School are welcomed and encouraged.
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Commitment to safeguarding
Sir James Smith's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all pre-employment checks necessary to meet Safer Recruitment requirements, including a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and references.
About Sir James Smith's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 600 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Sir James Smith's School website (opens in new tab)
Sir James Smith’s is part of North Cornwall Learning Trust. Apart from being a ‘Good’ school, Sir Jim’s is also a great place to work. Visitors, including Ofsted, comment on the friendly and supportive atmosphere. Staff and students are happy and enjoy their time at school.
We are a smaller than average co-educational comprehensive school, serving a large rural hinterland in North Cornwall. It’s a fantastic place to live if you like the outdoors. Our extensive rural catchment area of 100 square miles includes 8 partner primary schools though we attract students from many others. The dispersed settlement pattern means approximately 70% of students travel daily by bus. North Cornwall is one of the least sparsely populated areas in England and Wales thanks to the glorious Bodmin Moor.
At present we have 38 teachers, and 40 non-teaching staff including 4 technicians, 1 Librarian, 8 admin assistants and 7 classroom assistants. The Local Governance Committee work closely with staff, as do various support agencies. The small size of the school means that we all know the students very well and staff work together effectively. This is a school on a humane scale where personal relationships matter.
We have a "continental day". This means an earlier start - at 8.10 am for staff and 8.25 am for students. Students have one year assembly per week. There are 5 one-hour lessons and 2 breaks of 20 and 30 minutes. The main part of the day ends at 2.30 pm. On Mondays there are meetings; on Wednesdays Tuesdays and Thursdays, extra-curricular activities and late buses; on Fridays many staff go home a little earlier!
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