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Deputy Coordinator of English

Harris Invictus Academy Croydon, Croydon, CR0 2TB

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• Job start date

  1 September 2021

• Closing date

  9 July 2021 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 June 2021

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS (Outer London) + £1,500 Harris Allowance + TLR + Recruitment & Retention allowance available
• Additional allowances:

  In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package. Please visit the Harris careers website for more information.

Deputy Coordinator of English job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and engaging qualified experienced Teacher to join our academy as Deputy Coordinator of English. You will need to be an outstanding teacher with a commitment and passion for your subject as well as Leadership and Learning.

Your opportunity

Working with the Coordinator of English, you will:

• establish outstanding provision within the subject area within an allocated key stage
• oversee a coordinated approach to the delivery of the English curriculum
• be accountable for student progress and development for the allocated key stage
• ensure high standards of teaching and learning through continuously developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning
• ensure that the curriculum for the subject is well planned, logically sequenced and that students build up a deliberate body of knowledge and skills over time
• ensure that all school policies and procedures are implemented and applied consistently by the colleagues line managed by you
• effectively and efficiently manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and physical resources across the allocated key stage
• ensure that all students develop excellence in literacy and numeracy within the subject curriculum
• support the Coordinator with pastoral care and allocated tutor groups

We can offer you the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive academy environment. You will be part of a Federation established in developing practitioners and nurturing excellent future leaders, with unrivalled opportunities for progression; whatever your aspirations as a teacher, middle or senior leader, our Teaching School Alliance provides a range of bespoke courses and qualifications, including our Aspiring Leaders NPQML and NPQSL programmes. Your ambitions are ample to the growing success of our academies, maintaining this means putting your ambitions first with a strong career progressive culture. Join us in our mission in cultivating an exceptional learning environment for all our students.  

What we are looking for:

We look for talented individuals who want to be a part of transforming education in London, and helping create exceptional places of learning. The successful candidate will have:

• QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree
• At least two years' teaching experience of English at KS3 and 4
• Understanding of theory and practice of effective teaching and learning
• Thorough knowledge of national curriculum requirements at KS3 and KS4
• Experience of delivering high quality INSET to teaching staff within subject area
• 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 to improve the quality of teaching and learning
• Suitable 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
• Ideas of how Language, Literacy and Numeracy can be used across the curriculum to raise standards
• 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

Please download the job pack for a full job description and person specification. 

Being a part of the Harris Federation

We are recognised as the top performing large multi-academy trust in England for primary and secondary education. Closing the gap between young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers has always been a core mission of Harris. Holding a reputation for bringing transformative approaches to education, we hold a unrivalled track record in achieving success through rapid school improvement.

Our people are at the heart of this success. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of training programmes available at every stage of your career.

We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.

Learn more About Harris and our Vision and Values

Safeguarding Notice

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

Read our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders

Diversity and Equality

 

We are committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.

Read our Diversity and Equality Notice 

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.

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About Harris Invictus Academy Croydon

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 992 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Harris Invictus Academy Croydon website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: info@harrisinvictus.org.uk
• Phone number: 0203 371 3002
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harris-invictus-academy-croydon (opens in new tab)

 Harris Invictus Academy Croydon was opened in September 2014 because of the significant demand in the community for new, high-quality school places. In achieving our aims, we are building on the success of the three other Harris Academies in Croydon. Ofsted calls all three of these schools ‘Outstanding’. They are oversubscribed with around seven applications for every place available.  

Academy EthosWe believe that when a school gives its students the confidence to believe they are capable of excellence, this is exactly what they go on to achieve. 

Our ethos is grounded in the best traditions of hard work, good manners, smart uniform and academic achievement.  We combine these with the best of modern teaching and technology. Class sizes are kept as small as possible and students will find that the atmosphere is disciplined and rigorous but also happy.

At Harris Invictus Academy Croydon, learning does not begin and end at the classroom door.  Students regularly participate in after-school enrichment classes, activity days and educational visits.  In addition to what they learn in the classroom, these activities help to bring learning alive.

We believe passionately in our mission statement: ‘We Know, We Can, We Will’. We never settle for less and are driven by achievement and success. We can do it, and we will succeed no matter the circumstances or difficulties we face. 

Why work at Harris Invictus Academy Croydon? 

• A happy, hard-working and highly ambitious community in which students and staff treat one another with care and respect 



• The combination of traditional values of discipline and good-manners with contemporary best practice in teaching and technology 



• A central Croydon location, close to transport links and other amenities 



• Generous Harris benefits package and excellent opportunities for personal and professional development 

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