Deputy Academic Team Leader of Mathematics

Dowdales School, Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA15 8AH

19 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  25 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  5 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Mathematics
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Teacher Main Scale / UPS
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 2B (£5645)

What skills and experience we're looking for

• A relevant good honours degree
• Qualified Teacher Status
• Leading on a Teaching and Learning initiative
• Substantial experience of teaching students at Key Stage 3 and 4
• A good classroom practitioner
• A good understanding of effective and engaging teaching methods
• The ability to engage, enthuse and motivate students
• Experience of teaching up to Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4
• An understanding of the use of assessment to inform planning
• Evidence of improved student outcomes
• The ability to plan lessons and sequences of lessons with clear objectives to ensure progression for all students.
• The ability to set consistently high expectations for all students through class work and homework.
• Experience of monitoring and marking students’ work by providing constructive oral and written feedback
• Can demonstrate strategic thinking and planning that builds, communicates and carries forward a shared vision.
• Ability to use data effectively to enable improvement.

What the school offers its staff

We are proud to have:

• Extremely high aspirations for all students at Dowdales ensuring that every young person makes excellent progress and performs to the best of their ability
• Students with positive attitudes who enjoy coming to school
• An enthusiastic and dedicated team of staff and governors

Further details about the role

Dowdales School is a proud, thriving and ambitious community. Here, we work together, as one, to ensure that everyone thrives in everything that they do. As a whole school, and as individuals, we aim high by wanting the very best for all. Everyone in Dowdales School leads by example ensuring that we treat each other as we want to be treated ourselves.

We are a community school with 820 students aged 11-16 years on roll. Situated in the historic town of Dalton in Furness, we enjoy being on the fringe of the Lake District National Park. As an Ofsted rated ‘good’ school, we believe in high expectations, excellent teaching and ambition for every young person.

Dowdales Mathematics department is a well-established team of 6 full and part time members. We are seeking an inspirational teacher to support the Academic Team Leader in the leadership and management of the team to ensure outstanding outcomes for the full cohort of students.

Our ethos as a department is that all students can achieve in mathematics and should be provided with adaptive teaching that enables this success.

Students have 4 lessons per week across both key stage 3 and 4. We follow an ambitious, newly developed scheme of work that challenges all students.

Extra curricular activities are a strength at Dowdales, and the maths department contributes to this through educational visits, team and individual challenges and clubs.

We are proud to have:

• Extremely high aspirations for all students at Dowdales ensuring that every young person makes excellent progress and performs to the best of their ability
• Students with positive attitudes who enjoy coming to school
• An enthusiastic and dedicated team of staff and governors

We would welcome applications from someone who has:

• A good understanding of effective and engaging teaching methods
• The ability to plan lessons and sequences of lessons with clear objectives to ensure progression for all students
• The ability to set consistently high expectations for all students through class work and homework

Commitment to safeguarding

Dowdales School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. To achieve our commitment, we will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust Safeguarding processes and procedures that promote a culture of Safeguarding amongst our staff and volunteers.

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About Dowdales School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 792 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dowdales School website
• Email address: ayoung@dowdales.school
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dowdales-school

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