Head of Business Studies
Warlingham School, Warlingham, Surrey, CR6 9YBThis job expired on 20 September 2024 – see similar jobs
Earliest start date
1 October 2024
Latest start date
5 October 2024
Closing date
20 September 2024 at 8am
Date listed
6 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Business studies
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 Hours Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - Maternity Cover - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- Main Scale / Upper Pay Scale
Additional allowances
TLR 2C
What skills and experience we're looking for
Personal Specification
- Qualified Teacher Status/Relevant Degree
- Secondary Trained
- At least 5 years teaching experience at KS3, KS4 and preferably KS5
- Have worked closely with parents and willing to respond promptly to parental concerns or questions
- Previous experience of leading or guiding others within a team
- Experience of teaching at a variety of key stages
- Experience of intervention to identify underachievement and raise attainment
- Comprehensive school experience
- Safer Recruitment
- Excellent teaching subject knowledge
- Use of assessment to promote students learning
- Teaching methodology
- Current curriculum developments and best practice in subject area
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Principles of comprehensive education
- An awareness of the forthcoming changes to the curriculum across all key stages
- Understanding of exam board requirements at KS4 and KS5 if applicable
- Outstanding Classroom practitioner
- Able to use ICT to support learning and as a communication and management tool
- Excellent administration skills
- Excellent communicator with effective interpersonal skills and organisation skills
- Ability to enthuse students and colleagues
- Ability to analyse and present information
- Willingness to undertake any training to improve own performance and skills
- Confident use of IT
- Able to implement curriculum change
- Excellent and inspirational leader
- Approachable, warm and open
- Effective team player
- Genuine passion and a belief in the subject
- Vision, energy and enthusiasm
- Pursuit of high standards - both academic and behavioural
- Integrity with the ability to exercise sound judgement
- Able to analyse situations to achieve win-win outcomes
- Willing to contribute to all aspects of school life
- Assertive but approachable
- Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people in line with the School/Trust Child Protection and Safeguarding policy and the Staff Code of Conduct/ Behaviour Policy
What the school offers its staff
- Competitive salary and generous holiday and pension entitlement
- Well established and supportive training and development opportunities
- Family friendly policies
- Competitive Staff Benefits offering
- Wellbeing focused and Employee Assistance Programme
- Lifestyle and retail discounts
- Staff sports and social events
You will join a strong and successful team within a well-established department. Our key strength is the experience and knowledge within the team which provides our students with an exciting curriculum supported by extra-curricular activities, visits and opportunities.
Commitment to safeguarding
Tandridge Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to safer recruitment checks, including an enhanced DBS check.
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About Warlingham School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1426 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Warlingham School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@tandridgelearningtrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01883 776677
Warlingham School is a thriving 11-18, mixed, comprehensive school situated on the fringe of Surrey and Greater London. The school converted to academy status in November 2012, as a ‘stand-alone’ school and then joined with four Primary Schools in May 2017 to form a cross-phase MAT - Tandridge Learning Trust. It was built in 1954 and occupies a large, attractive site on a campus which includes Hamsey Green Primary School.
“There is an open culture where everyone works together to improve progress for all students” – Ofsted 2017
Arranging a visit to Warlingham School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@tandridgelearningtrust.co.uk.
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