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Director of Learning - English

Starbank School, Birmingham, B10 9BT

This job expired on 13 October 2024

• Job start date

  1 January 2025

• Closing date

  13 October 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 September 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: 32.5 hours per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,000 to £46,525 per annum
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 1 Max (£15,690 per annum)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Director of Learning for English with a proven track record of success in improving standards and raising pupil outcomes. We want to hear from talented middle leaders looking to extend their experience, and outstanding, ambitious teachers seeking their first middle leadership post.

As an experienced teacher, you will develop an exciting curriculum that suits every type of learner and have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of our young people. The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and motivational skills.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to lead a successful faculty drawing on your extensive teaching and leadership experience. As a Star middle leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

You will have:

• A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
• The ability to teach to GCSE standard.
• The ability to coach and motivate colleagues to achieve individual and collective targets.
• Experience of sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement.
• Experience of innovation and creativity to engage, enthuse and progress learners.

What the school offers its staff

About Starbank

Starbank school in Birmingham is a large all through school for pupils aged 3 to 16 years old. We have over 2,000 pupils and are based across three sites in close proximity to each other. We joined Star Academies in 2020 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Starbank School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 16
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 2223 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• Email address: info@starbank.staracademies.org
• Phone number: 0121 464 0751
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/starbank-school-birmingham (opens in new tab)

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