Faculty Team Leader
Ashby School, Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 1DT19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
August 2025
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale 6 - 9
What skills and experience we're looking for
All members of Ashby School extended leadership team uphold public trust in school leadership and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour. This is demonstrated through the following aims:
- To love and live pedagogy driving towards Ashby Great Teaching day in day out for every child
- To relentlessly model high standards and expectations for and of all within the organisation
- To sustain the school’s ethos and strategic direction
- To create a culture where students experience a positive and enriching school life
- To uphold ambitious educational standards which prepare students from all backgrounds for their next phase of education and life
- To promote positive and respectful relationships across the school community and a safe, orderly and inclusive environment
- To work to establish a culture that promotes excellence, equality and high expectations of all students.
- To Contribute to the school aims
- To establish, monitor & evaluate policies to promote high standards as pertain to their area of responsibility.
- To carry out other relevant duties appropriate to the level of leadership
- To monitor and intervene to actively promote staff well-being and work-life balance.
In addition,
Delegation
- To actively support the wider leadership team in the event of absence
Teaching & Learning
- To monitor, evaluate and review the Quality of Education, pedagogy and assessment to achieve the very best outcomes for students.
- To ensure Schemes of Learning and Faculty Improvement Plans lead to high quality teaching and learning outcomes.
- To ensure a range of effective learning opportunities that foster enjoyment and progress leading to positive outcomes.
Curriculum & Assessment
- To create an explicit Faculty vision for learning and teaching in line with whole school priorities and ethos, National Curriculum Programmes of Study and KS4 & 5 Specifications.
- To establish, communicate and continually review the curriculum intent for the faculty and subjects contained within it
- To lead the development of long, medium and short term planning.
- Driving learning and therefore achievement through effective use of formative and summative assessment for students to cohorts
Behaviour
- To support our whole school culture of behaviour for learning
- To lead and be accountable for behaviour for learning within the faculty
- To actively support teachers to promote positive classroom behaviour management.
Inclusion
- To strategically seek out and listen to stakeholder feedback to support our inclusion ethos.
- To safeguard and promote the welfare of all students.
- To ensure the school fulfils its statutory duties with regard to the SEND code of practice
- To assure the curriculum offer to our students learning beyond mainstream
Professional Development
- To contribute to CPL both across the whole school and through links with other Faculty and Subject leaders.
- To develop and lead strategies to enable teachers to raise teaching standards and levels of student achievement at all levels.
- To professionally develop faculty staff through induction, coaching, PIP and professional mentoring in order that high levels of performance are secured.
- To coach colleagues to meet their personal and professional targets where appropriate.
- To actively engage in CPL within the broader Trust and world of education
Organisational Management
- Whole school middle leadership accountability and development, including maintaining effective professional communication with the SLT leadership link, carrying out duties and actively supporting school policies and ethos.
- To ensure distributed leadership within the team by establishing clear roles and responsibilities, monitor effectiveness and hold staff to account so that teachers, teaching assistants and students enjoy enhanced practice in the classroom.
- To identify, plan and monitor resource allocation to ensure an equally high quality of experience for every student.
Continuous School Improvement
- To seek out developments in the subject(s) in order to become an advocate and leader in the development of cutting-edge pedagogy and practice.
- To lead Self-Evaluation in the faculty including data analysis and action planning leading to improved achievement.
- To identify future priorities and developments for the subject(s) in the faculty.
- To support and monitor new & training staff (as appropriate).
Standards
- To set appropriate targets, monitor progress and ensure appropriate action plans are in place where issues are identified.
- To proactively participate in whole-school initiatives to increase achievement.
- To ensure all students make appropriate progress, holding to account where progress is not appropriate.
- To utilise assessment data in order to strategically monitor student and class progress and use appropriate intervention strategies.
- To ensure the driving of standards by Upper Pay Scale teachers where cohorts do not have specific subject leadership
Working in Partnership
- To work successfully with other schools and organisations in a climate of mutual challenge and support
- To communicate effectively with stakeholders to promote curriculum.
- Contribute to the development of effective subject links with external agencies and feeder schools and disseminate findings as appropriate.
- To take part in marketing and liaison activities such as Open Evenings, Parents’ Evenings.
Governance & Accountability
- To ensure examination and other protocols are followed correctly including with respect to NEA where appropriate.
- To ensure deadlines are met by the Faculty.
What the school offers its staff
The post offers an exceptional opportunity for an experienced teacher looking for their next challenge, or an individual seeking to begin their leadership journey in a student and staff centred Academy. We offer an excellent Continued Professional Development programme for all our staff and are committed to continuous improvement in both teaching and learning within a supportive environment. We also extend this to support the development of leadership skills for colleagues at all points on their journey embracing the full range of NPQs as appropriate within this progression.
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 Ashby School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1527 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ashby School website
- Email address
- g-lees@ashbyschool.org.uk
Ashby School is a thriving, successful and over-subscribed 11-19 Academy with over 1,600 students on roll including 500 in Ashby Sixth form. Conveniently located close to the M42 and M1, within easy reach of several areas of outstanding natural beauty and with the national forest on the doorstep, the school is set in its own attractive grounds in the expanding market town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
At Ashby School prides itself on putting students at its heart. We want all our students to have a happy and successful learning experience and are committed to ensuring that all students fulfil their academic potential.
Everyone in the Ashby School community is committed to achieving this, because, at Ashby, ‘Anything is Possible’.
Arranging a visit to Ashby School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email g-lees@ashbyschool.org.uk.
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