Curriculum Leader Mathematics, Business and Computing
Harris Clapham Sixth Form, London, SW4 8DXThis job expired on 11 May 2023
Start date details
September
Closing date
11 May 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 March 2023
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
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- Directed
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS (Inner London) + £2,000 Harris Allowance + TLR 1
Additional allowances
+ Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an inspiring and energetic Curriculum Leader of Mathematics, Business and Computing who is as passionate about developing their students as people as they are about their subject. As a Curriculum Leader at Harris Clapham Sixth Form, you will join a dedicated and dynamic team of teachers and staff in supporting our fantastic students.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- QTS (or equivalent)
- Degree or equivalent – maths specialist
- Minimum of three years teaching experience, including significant sixth form teaching
- Securing excellent outcomes in A level and/or vocational Level 3 courses
- Proven success in raising achievement as a subject leader or classroom practitioner
- Successful experience of processes of monitoring, evaluation and review that provide performance data that can be used to improve the quality of teaching and learning
- Strong level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement, including the use of interactive white boards
- Recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development
- Experience of embedding innovative strategies for improving teaching and learning
- Experience of managing and implementing change successfully
- Experience of using coaching as a model for ensuring on going professional development
What the school offers its staff
We want our students to be hugely ambitious, to dream bigger and to realise their aspirations, with the help of great teaching, a rigorous curriculum and a fantastic extra-curricular offer that broadens horizons and sparks curiosity. As well as our curriculum and enrichment offer, our students undertake a cultural perspective each term which opens up new worlds and ways of thinking. Above all, we really believe our students are capable of anything, and we are relentless in supporting them to pursue their ambitions.
Our opportunities for leadership development ensure that our students can make their mark on the world and to have the confidence and integrity to stand up for what they believe in. Our PRSHE curriculum supports our students to develop resilience and empathy, as well as building fantastic university and career skills for their brilliant futures.
We are a community who work together for the greater good of our academy; there is a culture of mutual respect and kindness between staff and students that I am immensely proud of.
Our academy is brand new and benefits from being a state-of-the-art building. It has been especially designed to deliver a Sixth Form education, including an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related subjects.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includesour Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS,a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan including access to a virtual GP, electric car scheme, and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
You will need to be highly talented and knowledgeable about sixth form teaching. Using your talents and knowledge, the main aspects of this role are:
- To build world-class provision within mathematics, computing and business. This particularly has a focus on the curriculum: its planning, sequencing, implementation and impact. The subject must have a clear progression model in place
- To be accountable for student progress, their high-quality work and a depth of knowledge and skills across the range of subjects. This includes meeting targets for subject areas which are agreed by the Principal and the Governing Body
- To ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the subject areas through a relentless focus on subject pedagogy, relevant research and keeping teachers up to date with the latest developments in the subject
- To ensure that all academy policies and procedures are implemented and applied consistently by all colleagues in the subject
- To effectively and efficiently manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and physical resources across the subject areas, with the support and working alongside senior leaders
- To assist in the pastoral leadership of tutor groups where the teachers are mathematics, computing or business teachers
- To be a role model for everyone in your team and the students in our academy.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
About Harris Clapham Sixth Form
- School type
- Free School, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Sixth form and collegejobs
- School size
- 285 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Clapham Sixth Form website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisclaphamsixthform.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0204 542 4900
We want our students to be hugely ambitious, to dream bigger and to realise their aspirations, with the help of great teaching, a rigorous curriculum and a fantastic extra-curricular offer that broadens horizons and sparks curiosity. As well as our curriculum and enrichment offer, our students undertake a cultural perspective each term which opens up new worlds and ways of thinking. Above all, we really believe our students are capable of anything, and we are relentless in supporting them to pursue their ambitions.
Our opportunities for leadership development ensure that our students can make their mark on the world and to have the confidence and integrity to stand up for what they believe in. Our PRSHE curriculum supports our students to develop resilience and empathy, as well as building fantastic university and career skills for their brilliant futures.
We are a community who work together for the greater good of our academy; there is a culture of mutual respect and kindness between staff and students that I am immensely proud of.
Our academy is brand new and benefits from being a state-of-the-art building. It has been especially designed to deliver a Sixth Form education, including an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related subjects.
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