Curriculum Manager (with Teaching Duties)
Bishopton PRU, Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, TS23 3HB17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L1 – L3, £47,185 - £49,574 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you a skilled Teacher looking to step up into leadership?
We are looking to appoint a highly motivated Curriculum Manager, to support the Head of Centre in the effective management and smooth operational running of Bishopton PRU.
You will support curriculum teams, providing clear vision and leadership to ensure the highest standards of teaching and learning for all our students, as well as leading on specific areas of whole school responsibility as directed by the Head of Centre.
In this role, you'll take the lead in a subject area, teaching up to ten lessons weekly. It's perfect for those looking to step into management while staying engaged in teaching and working closely with pupils.
If you are interested in this unique opportunity to lead a continually evolving school, are committed to making a difference and have the passion and integrity we are looking for, then we would welcome your application.
You will have:
- A proven track record of driving improvement in teaching and learning and delivering outstanding outcomes as a teacher or manager in an educational setting.
- Experience of taking a lead role for a department or theme during an Ofsted Inspection.
- Knowledge, understanding and experience of aspects of alternative and high needs provision, including SEMH.
- Extensive experience of managing and motivating staff.
- Experience of effective leadership in education.
- Experience of developing and maintaining strong relationships with external stakeholders such as partner schools, employers and parents
This is a challenging but rewarding role, and the successful candidate must be committed to creating a positive learning environment no matter what barriers they may face. You will need a high level of resilience and a commitment to working as part of an emotionally intelligent team to support vulnerable children.
What the school offers its staff
Career Development & Staff Welfare
We recruit and retain staff by investing in their professional development through training and progression opportunities. Our schools and colleges will offer a friendly, caring environment with high expectations, aspirations and supporting the highest levels of achievement.
Our Trust will work through partnership with employers, community groups and other agencies to make the Tees Valley a great place to live, learn and work.
We are passionate about staff wellbeing as we value and care about our workforce and believe wellbeing is at the heart of championing better working lives.
We have recently trained a number of staff to be staff-focussed Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA). This is an internationally recognised approach that teaches us to spot the first signs and symptoms of common mental health problems and to guide individuals to appropriate help and support.
We commit to placing wellbeing and mental health at the heart of our decision making. We will support staff to make positive choices for their own wellbeing and encourage a collegiate culture across and between all roles in the school or college.
Employee Benefits:
- Membership of the Teacher’s Pension Scheme for all our teaching staff
- Opportunities for training and professional development
- Childcare Vouchers
- Cycle Scheme
- Free on-site parking
Further details about the role
When applying please take into account the following:
Supporting Information
The supporting information section of your application should clearly evidence your ability to meet the requirements we have outlined in the job description & person specification. This will be used to shortlist applicants for this role and therefore it is imperative that you provide evidence as requested.
References
When completing your application, please provide two employment referees. Generally, this is your current and most recent employer. Please note your referee should ideally be a previous line manager or someone in a position of authority.
As this post involves direct contact with, or unsupervised responsibility for, children or vulnerable adults the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check before taking up the position. Additional checks will include; identity checks, qualification checks and employment checks, including the investigation of any gaps between jobs and two satisfactory references.
Tees Valley Collaborative Enterprises Ltd is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We have a robust child protection policy and all staff will receive training relevant to their role at induction and throughout employment at the school. We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity.
Please note this post is in regulated activity and exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS criminal records and barred list check for work with children. An online search may be undertaken as part of the recruitment process on information available in the public domain. Candidates should disclose anything that may be relevant in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) advertise vacancies and process applications on behalf of schools and external organisations (third parties) in North Yorkshire. NYC are not responsible for the recruitment/employment practices of third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment/employment processes. Further information on how we process your data can be foundhere.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to NYES.Resourcing@northyorks.gov.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bishopton PRU
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 16
- School size
- 62 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Bishopton PRU website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- NYES.Resourcing@northyorks.gov.uk
Bishopton PRU provides provision for KS3 and KS4 pupils not attending mainstream schools and those accessing alternative education provision.
We have high aspirations and ambitions for our children and we believe that no child should be left behind. We strongly believe that it is not about where you come from but your passion and thirst for knowledge, and your dedication and commitment to learning that make the difference between success and failure, and we are determined to ensure that our children are given every chance to realise their full potential.
We are now on an exciting journey to be an outstanding school, with a clear strategic vision for moving forward.
C.A.S.T.L.E – Creativity, Aspiration, Self-belief, Tolerance, Love, Enjoyment
At Bishopton we love, value and respect the uniqueness of all of our pupils. We continually strive to fill their lives with awe and wonder and inspire them to transform their lives and achieve success. Our work places their best interests and rights at the heart of everything we do without discrimination, so that they will live, flourish and fly. Our pupils are our future and we want that future to be extraordinary.
We are proud to be part of the Tees Valley Collaborative Trust, based in the North East of England, is a well established organisation with social inclusion, educational excellence and widening participation at the heart of its values.
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