Curriculum Leader of Geography
The Chalk Hills Academy, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU4 0NEThis job expired on 3 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
April or September 2025
Closing date
3 March 2025 at 8am
Date listed
10 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £37,402.00 - £55,190.00 Annually (Actual) AST 1-12 £31,756-£49,544 dependent on experience + Curriculum Lead allowance £5,646
Curriculum Leader of Geography job summary
Curriculum Leader of Geography
The Chalk Hills Academy have a great opportunity for a Curriculum Leader of Geography to join our lovely department. The main purpose of the post is to develop, plan and deliver effective and high quality learning experiences to all students, improving upon GCSE outcomes. In joining the Geography department at The Chalk Hills Academy, where colleagues are collaborative, imaginative and thrive in a team environment, you will help further advance curriculum changes and share excellent practice.
The successful candidate will be an experienced / aspirational professional, who is enthusiastic, influential and committed to working in pursuit of success for the academy and its learners. If you are highly motivated, respond well to a challenge and have excellent communication skills, this could be the job for you!
The Chalk Hills Academy are proud of the unrivalled education experience offered and you will certainly benefit from forward-thinking and supportive leadership, an encouraging and enthusiastic staff body and enterprising students. Our academy has state of the art facilities, fit for all your teaching needs. Our facilities include a brand new gym with new equipment from April 2019 which staff are welcome to use after school hours and a brand new Sixth Form block opened in September 2019. At The Chalk Hills Academy, we offer a school that will genuinely invest, support and develop you to become an outstanding practitioner and enable you to keep climbing the career ladder. If you are ambitious about excelling in your career and taking on additional responsibilities, we will give you the opportunities that you crave.
It is incredibly important to us here at The Chalk Hills Academy that all our staff are valued, listened to, mentored, challenged and given adequate opportunities to develop. As a Teaching Trust, we offer exceptional teacher training and high-quality professional development programmes catered to your needs. Consequently, we have many success stories of staff that have joined us and been given excellent CPD and training that has allowed them to climb the career ladder.
Key Duties
To play an active role in curriculum planning and delivery
Be accountable for the learning and achievement of all students
The successful candidate will
Overview of curriculum at KS3 and KS4.
Teacher of Geography who can teach at both KS3 KS4.
Ability to teach other Humanities subjects at KS3, preferable, but not essential.
To support colleagues to achieve targets set.
To have responsibility for planning, delivery, and assessment of learning activities for identified groups of students at Key Stage 3 and 4.
To ensure student achievement is at least in line with expectations.
To be accountable for progress and achievement of students across Geography.
To have responsibility for the pastoral care of an identified tutor group.
To implement school policies and procedures as appropriate in day-to-day activities.
Job specifics
Start date Easter or September 2025
Salary AST 1-12 (dependent on experience) plus Curriculum Lead allowance
Job Role Full time, Permanent
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Commitment to safeguarding
Advantage Schools is committed to safeguarding and child protection at every stage of the recruitment process.
About The Chalk Hills Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1619 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Chalk Hills Academy website
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