Curriculum Director (Head of Department) for Modern Foreign Languages
Q3 Academy Langley, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68 8EDThis job expired on 6 February 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Easter Term 2023
Closing date
6 February 2023 at 10:12am
Date listed
31 January 2023
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- View all Frenchjobs, View all Spanishjobs
Working pattern
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- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- TMS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR1B (£10204)
What skills and experience we're looking for
- The day-to-day leadership and management, control and operation of subject provision within the allocated curriculum area.
- To regularly use national performance data to identify students at risk and to initiate and implement early intervention strategies.
- Lead the development of appropriate syllabuses, resources, schemes for learning, marking policies, assessment and teaching strategies within the designated curriculum area.
- Work with colleagues to formulate aims and objectives for the curriculum area which have coherence and relevance to the needs of students and to the aims and objectives of the Academy.
- Liaise with the Vice Principal or Assistant Vice Principal to ensure the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality and cost-effective curriculum programme which complements the Academy’s strategic objectives.
- Actively monitor and respond to curriculum development and initiatives at national, regional and local levels.
- Liaise with the Vice/Principal or Assistant Vice Principal to maintain accreditation with the relevant examination and validating bodies.
- Work with the Vice Principal or Assistant Vice Principal to ensure that staff development needs are identified and that appropriate programmes are designed to meet such needs.
- Contribute to Performance Management and to act as reviewer for a group of staff within the assigned curriculum area.
- Participate in the monitoring and evaluation of the curriculum in line with agreed Academy procedures including evaluation against quality standards and performance criteria.
- To participate in the Academy’s Learning Walk Programme.
- Contribute to the development of effective curriculum links with partner schools and the community, attendance where necessary at liaison events in partner schools and the effective promotion of subjects at Open Days and other events in the wider community.
- Monitor students’ progress and performance in relation to targets set for each individual; ensuring that follow-up procedures are adhered to and that appropriate action is taken.
What the school offers its staff
Your dedication & commitment is not only recognised, but highly rewarded;
- Opportunities for rapid progression across a growing Academies Trust;
- Complimentary tea and coffee;
- Access to our Employee Assistant Programme;
- Fun & interesting weekly staff incentives (weekly prizes, surprises and rewards following the previous week);
- Free parking;
- Complimentary breakfast and lunch (Family Breakfast and Family Lunch is shared with students, who serve one another);
- Consideration will be given to Flexible working/Part time hours where possible;
- The opportunity to work with a kind, collaborative and fun team of colleagues.
Further details about the role
Q3 Academy Langley opened its doors in September 2016, becoming the first brand-new secondary education provider in Sandwell in a decade. Our exceptional first set of results, which placed us as a beacon of academic excellence nationally, supports the litany of glowing testimony received from visitors (who have come from the length and breadth of the United Kingdom), who have seen the ‘Langley Way’ up close.We are looking to add to our fantastic team of dedicated, hard-working colleagues, who contribute to a supportive, positive, professional culture of work.
Our curriculum model is focused primarily on the EBacc subjects, forming our Core. Additionally, we have a project-based, cross-curricular provision (Horizon, Innov8 and Cloud 9) that develops student learning both academically and holistically. Because of this innovative model, there is a minimal strain in terms of lesson planning. Our facilities are truly astounding, supporting the delivery of a broad, balanced curriculum.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment all offers of employment are subject to an online check, Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
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About Q3 Academy Langley
- School type
- Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1307 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Q3 Academy Langley website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- rbeardsworth@q3langley.org.uk
Q3 Academy Langley opened its doors in September 2016, becoming the first brand new secondary education provider in Sandwell in a decade. Our Academy ethos stems from the Latin ‘Quarere’, meaning ‘to seek’. We stand for three high ideals – to seek that which is good, that which is right, and that which is true. If you share our belief that these ideals are a tremendous foundation on which to build young people’s educational experience, with the hope that our students will feel delighted coming to the Academy, then you share our vision.
Arranging a visit to Q3 Academy Langley
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email rbeardsworth@q3langley.org.uk.
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