Faculty Leader English
Aldridge School - A Science College, Walsall, West Midlands, WS9 0BG16 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
29 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
11 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
- English
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 Hours, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR2B
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Purpose
- Raise and be accountable for standards of attainment and achievement within the faculty.
- Develop and enhance teaching practices.
- Ensure a broad, balanced, and differentiated curriculum.
- Lead, manage, and develop the faculty.
- Manage teaching/associate staff, financial, and physical resources.
What the school offers its staff
Principal Responsibilities
Teaching and Learning:
- Monitor and develop teaching standards and student achievement.
- Use performance data for target setting and progress monitoring.
- Provide educational enrichment activities.
Operational/Strategic Planning and Quality Assurance:
- Manage course provision, staff, and resources.
- Develop and resource short, medium, and long-term plans.
- Monitor student progress and implement school policies.
- Ensure quality assurance and produce examination analysis reports.
- Contribute to the school SEF and SIP.
Curriculum Provision and Development:
- Accountable for subject delivery and development.
- Ensure cost-effective curriculum programs.
- Monitor and respond to curriculum developments.
- Develop cross-curricular links.
Staff Development, Recruitment, and Wellbeing:
- Promote teamwork and effective communication.
- Support, guide, and motivate team members.
- Identify and support staff development needs.
- Conduct performance reviews and assist in faculty appointments.
Communications:
- Ensure faculty members are familiar with aims and objectives.
- Communicate effectively with students, parents, and external bodies.
- Represent faculty views and interests.
Care, Guidance, and Support:
- Monitor and support student progress and development.
- Ensure adherence to the Code of Conduct and Behaviour Policy.
- Participate in after-school detentions.
- Undertake teaching duties.
General Duties:
- Perform professional duties as outlined in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document.
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Pre-employment checks include an enhanced disclosure and barring service check as a requirement of this post. Our Safeguarding Policy is available on our website, and we encourage applicants to review it before applying.
This position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check (formerly CRB) under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Further details regarding this check are available from the school or by visitingwww.crb.gov.uk.
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Aldridge School - A Science College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1593 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Aldridge School - A Science College website
- Email address
- jasmine.gill@merciantrust.org.uk
We are a comprehensive school of over 1500 students situated near the centre of Aldridge village. We believe that it is our responsibility to work to meet the needs of every individual student, challenging them to achieve their best, supporting them to become responsible young adults and preparing them for their next steps into the world of work or further education.
Aldridge School is a good school (Ofsted 2022). It is a school which is proud of its traditions and successes which have been achieved through hard work and high expectations. In particular, we encourage our students to be Respectful, Responsible, Resilient and Ready to learn in order that they will be happy and successful at school and in the wider world beyond.
Aldridge School has a dedicated, talented and conscientious team of staff who work together to provide a high standard of teaching, excellent pastoral care and professional support services. Our broad curriculum is designed to meet national expectations, be relevant and interesting, support our students in achieving the best possible standards in external examinations and to equip them with the skills they need to be successful in adult life.
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