Director of Learning and Standards - PE

Gospel Oak School, Tipton, West Midlands, DY4 0BZ

27 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  1 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: Physical education
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650 - £49,084
• Additional allowances:

  This role attracts a TLR 2A (£8,279)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Education and qualifications - Essential

• Honours degree or equivalent in appropriate subject
• Qualified Teacher Status
• Recent relevant in-service training

Education and qualifications - Desirable

• Post graduate study or qualification
• An NPQ-eg ML or SL

Experience - Essential

• Successful experience of teaching at all levels and ability ranges
• Demonstrated and evidence of leading and developing in the cohort to successful outcomes
• Proven record of raising attainment and progress for all learners
• Excellent subject knowledge
• Effective pedagogical strategies
• Understanding of curriculum and assessment developments
• Experience of managing budgets and resources and deployment of those resources
• Experience of developing successful stakeholder relationships - parents/carers, governors, school improvement partners and community
• Evidence of improving teaching and learning through the development of schemes of work, resources and collaborative planning
• Experience of meeting the needs of all students-eg SEND, disadvantaged & more able students

Experience - Desirable

• Successful and varied teaching experience in the secondary sector up to and including Advanced level
• Experience of teaching at Post 16 level
• Experience of working with parents and the wider community

Skills/Attributes - Essential

• A strong practitioner who can consistently teach good lessons
• Ability to lead and work effectively as part of a team but also to be able to work independently
• Ability to initiate, develop and implement policies
• Ability to motivate, lead and inspire students of all aptitudes
• Ability to learn from experience
• Ability to effectively collect, analyse and evaluate student progress data and formulate intervention strategies in order to raise standards
• Ability to use ICT to support the role
• Ability to plan, deliver and monitor effective intervention
• Ability to implement self-review and evaluation processes and plan strategically
• Evidence of working through sequences of lessons and developing schemes of work
• Ability to motivate and encourage participation both inside and outside the classroom

Knowledge - Essential

• Knowledge of strategies to improve learning and teaching in the subject area
• Knowledge of strategies to raise achievement and engagement
• Awareness of current educational practice, developments and curriculum reforms
• Familiarity with the requirements of GCSE and Post 16 qualifications
• Up to date subject and national curriculum knowledge and skills
• Knowledge of the OFSTED framework
• Knowledge of budget management
• Knowledge of the barriers to achievement for SEND, disadvantaged & more able students

Knowledge - Desirable

• Whole school awareness of current practice, developments and curriculum reforms

Organisational Fit - Essential

• Meeting the Teaching Standards
• Alignment with our values and distinctive culture

Personal Attributes - Essential

• Excellent communicator (orally and written)
• Work independently
• High level of emotional intelligence
• Collaborator
• Influencer (with others and calming influence when required)
• Reflector (ability to identify own learning opportunities)
• Organised and ability to plan, prepare and prioritise
• Empathetic
• Reliability and punctuality
• Resilient
• Integrity
• Commitment to inclusive comprehensive education
• Vision and imagination
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to adapt to changing needs and circumstances
• Role model leadership and best practice

What the school offers its staff

Joining the Central Region Schools Trust (CRST) is your opportunity to develop both personally and professionally. Each school in our trust has its own individual distinctiveness and individuality, while profiting from the know-how, expertise and support that comes from a highly qualified and dedicated support team.

CRST will recognise your individual skills, encourage your creativity and provide opportunities for you to grow, learn and succeed. You can expect as an employee for CRST to invest in your career progression, with bespoke CPD offering the potential for ‘fast tracked’ growth into leadership roles which are offered across all the Trusts schools.

Further details about the role

Job Description

As a Director of Learning and Standards you will play a critical role in the School. As a DLS, you will play a pivotal role in raising achievement at all 3 key stages and supporting colleagues to further improve teaching and learning.

The Director of Learning and Standards must be able to

• To embody the values, vision and ethos of the Central Region Schools Trust and assist the Principal in delivering policy which will ensure high quality and successful outcomes.
• To support the monitoring, evaluation and continuous review of the quality and effectiveness within the school.
• To support the collaborative work with the Trust, the school as well as within the local community.
• To ensure high quality teaching and excellent learning outcomes within the curriculum area and create a climate where students achieve their potential.
• Ensure all students within the subject achieve their full potential and targets.
• To inspire staff and students who study in this Curriculum Area with a love for this subject, leading them to explore it and value it for their whole life.

Main Duties will include:

• To develop and implement policies and practices which reflect the school’s commitment to high achievement through effective teaching and learning.
• Lead and implement an effective and appropriate curriculum for our students at all key stages that will enable them to achieve their best and meet national requirements.
• To have an enthusiasm for the subject which motivates and supports other subject staff and encourages a shared understanding of the contribution the subject can make to all aspects of students’ lives.
• To display a developing and professional knowledge base together with the ability to identify the key implications for subject development.
• To use relevant school, local and national data to inform targets for development and further improvement for individuals and groups of students.
• To establish clear targets for achievement in the subject and evaluate progress through the use of appropriate assessments and records and regular analysis of this data.
• To involve all departmental colleagues in the creation and execution of the yearly faculty SEF and Improvement Plan
• This will identify clear targets, times-scales and success criteria and contribute to the whole school SEF and School Improvement Plan.

Teaching and Learning Duties will include:

• To produce differentiated lesson plans to support the delivery of stimulating and existing lessons that will motivate and enthuse students.
• To use a variety of teaching and learning strategies to ensure that all learning styles (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic) are catered for.
• To provide students with regular assessment opportunities, use assessment for learning and provide them with quality feedback.
• To provide pastoral care, appropriate to the needs of each student and to maintain high standards in accordance with overall school policies.
• To encourage students to develop positive attitudes to each other, members of staff, their families, the school and their environment.
• To monitor the academic and social development of students and maintain an efficient record system.
• To participate in appropriate meetings with colleagues and parents.
• To participate in Performance Management arrangements.
• To show care and concern for all students, members of staff and the school environment.
• To contribute to the wider aspects of school life, including liaison with parents and external agencies and to provide support for school policy within the community.
• To review annually the preceding year’s work and agree targets, aims and objectives.
• Maintain awareness and knowledge of contemporary trends, developments, theory and methods in the transformation of teaching and provide suitable leadership and interpretation to Governors, Leaders, Managers and staff within the school.
• To carry out any other reasonable duties as directed by the Principal

Director of Learning and Standards Duties will include:

• Plan and monitor Schemes of Learning for the subject.
• Establish a subject development plan, target setting and review, ensuring that all students have appropriate and aspirational target grades for the subject.
• To ensure that all students meet or exceed their target grades.
• Lead and support all teachers within the department, assisting in their professional development and supervising beginner teachers and ECTs.
• Monitor, evaluate and review the performance of staff teaching within the department, addressing under performance and other areas of concern in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Ensure that staff within the department teach engaging and effective lessons that motivate, inspire and improve student attainment.
• To develop expertise within the team in supporting SEN students.
• Establish monitoring and evaluation of student progress with regular, measurable and significant assessments for students.
• To review feedback on academic attainment and attendance of students and ensure effective interventions are put in place and impact monitored.
• To develop, lead and monitor an improvement plan with evidence of all areas to be addressed.
• To maintain and moderate accurate student data that can be used to make teaching and learning more effective and narrow/eliminate gaps for discrete groups.
• To develop, lead and monitor an improvement plan with evidence of all areas to be addressed.
• To maintain and moderate accurate student data that can be used to make teaching and learning more effective and narrow/eliminate gaps for discrete groups.
• To develop strong partnerships and ensure regular and productive communication with organisations, parents and other schools.
• To manage departmental budget and resources effectively and efficiently.

Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified. Staff will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description. This job description will be reviewed annually and the Principal reserves the right to alter the content of this job description, after consultation with the post-holder, to reflect changes to the job or services provided, without altering the general character or level of responsibility.

All staff are responsible for promoting and safeguarding the safety and welfare of children and young adults.

Commitment to safeguarding

Central Region Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All our posts are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, 2 work references and other employment checks.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

DLS - PE Candidate Pack.pdf - 5.53 MB (opens in new tab)

About Gospel Oak School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1217 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Gospel Oak School website
• Email address: GOSHR@gospeloakschool.co.uk
• Phone number: 0121 556 1351
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/gospel-oak-school

Gospel Oak School, formerly the RSA Academy serves the borough of Sandwell, but due to its geographical position students join us from Wolverhampton and Walsall. In 2017 the school joined the Central RSA Academies Trust and has been working closely and collaboratively across the trust to offer greater opportunities for all. Over the last 5 years the trust has grown in size and strength, from September 2021 the trust is now an academy approved sponsor in its own right and the RSA will no longer sponsor the trust, although we will continue to work closely with the RSA. This changing relationship has provided the trust and the school to rebrand ourselves, the trust will now be known as Central Region Schools Trust and the school; Gospel Oak School.

The rebrand for the school has allowed us to reflect on the true heritage of the local community. The school is based in Gospel Oak and as a community we are very proud of our Black Country heritage, it is for this reason our new branding reflects the colours of the Black Country along with symbolic representation of the area, with the narrowboat which reflects the locality of the Gospel Oak canal basin, the oak tree for when the parish was so large the parishioners prayed under it once a month and the Black Country links to industry within the area.

Arranging a visit to Gospel Oak School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email GOSHR@gospeloakschool.co.uk.

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