Director of Learning: Design Technology and Art
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Job start date
1 September 2022
Closing date
31 January 2022 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 January 2022
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- L8-L13 (Outer London)
Additional allowances
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.
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.
In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.
Director of Learning: Design Technology and Art job summary
Support and enrich the experiences of our students! We are currently looking to appoint a qualified, experienced teacher to join Harris Academy Sutton as Director of Design Technology and Art to ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the subject area through continuously, developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.
We have a modern and fully equipped Design and Technology suite, together with a state-of -the-art Food and Nutrition teaching space and an amazing Art studio.
Main Areas of Responsibility
The purpose of your role will be:
To be accountable for student progress and development in the subject area across KS3, KS4 and post 16, including meeting student achievement targets for subject areas which are agreed by the Principal and the Governing Body.
To ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the subject area through continuously, developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.
To ensure the provision of an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students in the subject area, in accordance with the academy aims and policies, as determined by the Principal and Governing Body.
To ensure that all school policies and procedures are implemented and applied consistently by all staff in the subject area.
To ensure agreed tutor programme is implemented and that tutors are effective in their role.
To ensure effective behaviour for learning is evident throughout faculty
To effectively and efficiently manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and physical resources across the subject area.
To lead development for literacy, through the WORD strategy, within subject areas, to raise standards of Literacy across the Academy
Your main areas of responsibility will fall under the areas of:
Operational and strategic planning (including rigorous self-evaluation and review of subject area performance, formulating the subject and faculty improvement plans, and leading the development of appropriate syllabuses, resources, schemes of work, marking policies, assessment and teaching strategies)
Ensuring the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality and cost effective curriculum and leading development of the subject and its delivery
Staff development (including recruiting, building and managing an effective team of motivated staff)
Student outcomes (including ensuring the effective operation of target setting, monitoring and evaluation systems and the input and maintenance of accurate student data)
Pastoral system (including being a form tutor to a selected group of students)
Teaching, including acting as an outstanding role model
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will:
Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a good, relevant undergraduate degree.
Be an excellent teacher with a minimum of two years' teaching experience.
Have proven success in raising achievement.
Have experience of leading others, ensuring high quality performance.
Have successful experience in implementation of monitoring, evaluation and review process to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
Demonstrate a high level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement.
Have recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development.
Have experience of presenting to a wide audience including teachers, other managers, students and parents.
Understand creative whole school strategies for improving literacy and numeracy and the importance of this in raising achievement.
Have some successful experience of leading on cross subject initiatives that have contributed to raising achievement.
Have experience of embedding innovative strategies for Assessment for Learning and Learning to Learn.
Have recent and relevant experience of managing and implementing change successfully at subject leader level.
Be willing to use coaching as a model for ensuring on-going professional development.
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. Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.
Equal Opportunities
The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.
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.
About Harris Academy Sutton
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1036 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Harris Academy Sutton website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrissutton.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0203 962 4500
We are a new Academy moving into our first year of GCSE studies situated in the centre of Sutton on the site of the London Cancer Hub. We are settling in to our £40 million state-of-the-art Passivhaus building and are looking for a committed and passionate subject specialist to join our growing community and support our students as they look to progress into an ever-more competitive workplace. As much as the experience that candidates may bring to the role it is the attitude, character and ability to read the context of our growing Academy that will set the best apart.
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