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This job expired on 15 April 2024

  • Start date details

    September 2024

  • Closing date

    15 April 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    14 March 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Head of department or curriculum

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

English

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Leadership Scale 8-12

What skills and experience we're looking for

    • A successful record of teaching with very good exam results at one or more of KS4 or KS5.
    • A detailed knowledge of current developments in education including the use of the Pupil Premium.
    • An ability to set a vision for English at Boston Spa Academy and lead a large team of colleagues in achieving success.

What the school offers its staff

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

  • Membership to a local government pension scheme.
  • A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
  • Specsavers scheme.
  • £2k Cycle to work scheme.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.

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Additional documents

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Application form.docx - 135 KB (opens in new tab)
Director of English.pdf - 335 KB (opens in new tab)

About Boston Spa Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary school
School size
1456 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
School website
Boston Spa Academy website
Email address
rhian.broadbent@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
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Boston Spa Academy in Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, is a mixed, secondary school for children aged 11-18. The school, which opened in 1973, has around 1,430 students of which 190 attend the growing sixth form. In September 2018, Boston Spa Academy officially joined the highly successful and nationally renowned GORSE trust. As a direct impact of working with colleagues at TGAT the academy has moved from being a school with average performance to one which is now well above the national average. Boston Spa Academy is now amongst the highest performing schools in Leeds, the Yorkshire and Humber region and the country.


At Boston Spa Academy, we are proud that, in our recent Ofsted inspection graded “Outstanding”, it was commented that ‘staff feel valued and are proud to be members of the school’. The report also recognises that ‘leaders are highly supportive’ and ‘proactively seek to manage workload and support the well-being of staff’. As well as feeling part of a community with a common purpose, our professional body also benefits from outstanding CPD and support which is personalised to your particular needs and experience.

Our Vision and Values: Shaping Character; Cultivating Ambition


At Boston Spa Academy, we truly value the holistic development of our students as part of our vision to be ‘shaping character; cultivating ambition’. We support students in developing the character traits required to be well-rounded individuals and for them to be prepared with the skills, habits and qualifications required for success in their future careers.


Our community is built on kindness, respect, hard work and aspiration and our enabler to achieving this are the ‘core values’ to which we hold dear and permeate through all that we do at the academy:



  • Purpose

  • Positivity

  • Principled

  • Participation

  • Professionalism

As part of The GORSE Academies Trust, Boston Spa Academy is in the vanguard of educational developments in Leeds, Yorkshire and on a national level.  As a school community, we strive to deliver an exceptional standard of education.


Our Enrichment++ provision is designed to encourage young people to learn beyond the classroom and includes opportunities to take part in sport, art, languages, humanities, science, outdoor pursuits and a range of volunteering and charitable work at local, national and international levels. Our nationally renowned Rowing Programme provides student with the opportunity to compete at a national level against some of the elite young athletes in the UK.


Cultural visits and an expedition programme have seen pupils visit countries from European countries to as far afield as Trinidad and Singapore.


Mr Peter Hollywood


Principal

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