Head of Business Studies
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Closing date
8 November 2019 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 October 2019
Job details
Job role
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Working pattern
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £24,859 to £40,520 per year (full-time equivalent)
Additional allowances
In addition to the annual salary, this role attracts a Teaching and Learning Allowance of £5,585, plus a potential recruitment and retention bonus of up to £5,000.
Head of Business Studies job summary
• To ensure that all students make maximum progress. This particularly applies to pupil premium students and the successful candidate will work closely with the Assistant Headteacher – pupil premium lead, in this regard.
• To ensure students of all ages are supported and challenged as necessary and achieve optimum levels of engagement with school life.
• To support and challenge members of the department as necessary thus ensuring that the student experience and progress is maximised.
• To help maximise student attendance by the department delivering creative, innovative and rewarding lessons.
• To role model excellent practices, actively encouraging other members of the department to do the same, going ‘above and beyond’, intervening with students outside the curriculum so they ‘catch up’ as quickly as possible.
• To support and challenge Heads of Year so that underachieving students have barriers removed from their learning and regularly show good learning behaviours including being properly equipped for lessons.
• To effectively lead the department so protocols are consistently followed e.g. deadlines are met, registers are taken, iPads are dropped off at the front of the class at the start of each lesson, students’ have challenging starter activities, the main parts of lessons involve students applying their newly acquired skills or knowledge regularly and expediently etc.
• To ensure lessons are well planned and follow schemes of work with regular and consistent assessments providing students with high quality feedback which they are accountable for acting upon via DIRT marking.
• To encourage a culture of shared practice in the department where resources are shared, practices are discussed and peer lesson observations take place on a regular basis; typically half termly.
• To communicate with parents on a range of issues, particularly where students are underachieving.
• To communicate appropriate information to teaching and support staff.
• To contribute to a confidential record of issues affecting the educational progress of students.
• To be highly visible and a point of contact for students.
Commitment to safeguarding
Blenheim High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our Child Protection and Safeguarding policy along with our Equality policy can be found below. All successful candidates will be subject to DBS checks along with other relevant employment checks.
About Blenheim High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1329 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Blenheim High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@blenheim.surrey.sch.uk
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