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Director of Learning: Humanities (Geography Specialist)

Highfield Leadership Academy, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY4 3JZ

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• Job start date

  1 September 2020

• Closing date

  24 May 2020 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  18 May 2020

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Geography
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS Plus TLR1

Director of Learning: Humanities (Geography Specialist) job summary

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Director of Learning - Humanities 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 GCSEs

•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.

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 Highfield Leadership Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 563 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Highfield Leadership Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: dawn.livesey@highfield.staracademies.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/highfield-leadership-academy (opens in new tab)

Highfield Leadership Academy in Blackpool, Lancashire is a 1200 place, 11-16 secondary school and is part of Star Academies. We joined Star on 1 April 2016 and like all Star schools, “Leadership” is our specialism.

As a designated Leadership Academy, we are keen to ensure our pupils are offered encouragement and a wealth of opportunities to develop their natural skills, abilities and potential. We actively provide learning opportunities to teach performance leadership skills through project-based learning and community work. We ensure our pupils develop essential academic skills in line with our Trust mission to promote educational excellence, character development and service to communities.

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