Head of Computer Science
Avanti House School, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 2EQThis job expired on 18 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
2 September 2024
Closing date
18 April 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 March 2024
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
- Computing
Working pattern
- Full time: Candidates will be required to work 32.5 hours per week.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- USP1 - UPS3
Additional allowances
TLR 2b
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
We seek an enthusiastic and inspirational Head of Computer Science to join our successful, friendly and creative team who enjoy an excellent reputation within and beyond the school. If you are an effective practitioner with the ability to inspire and motivate students, we would like to hear from you.
What will you do?
- Leadership: Collaborate with school leaders to implement the school's vision and strategy, taking strategic leadership in curriculum development, pedagogical standards, and infrastructure management.
- External Engagement: Foster relationships with local, regional, and national stakeholders, contributing to community development and industry connections.
- Standards Management: Ensure outstanding teaching, learning, and assessment practices, prioritising safety, safeguarding, and high academic outcomes aligned with top-performing schools.
- Teaching Responsibilities: Deliver tailored curriculum, assess pupil progress, differentiate teaching methods, and promote literacy while engaging with diverse learner needs.
- Line Management: Provide clear direction and support to faculty members, ensuring performance excellence through effective communication and regular oversight.
For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description
What are we looking for?
- Qualified to bachelor’s degree level in relevant subject or allied subject
- QTS qualified
- Significant teaching experience in one or more good or outstanding schools – demonstrably delivering high standards
- Genuine passion for lifelong learning
- Able to self-start, work independently and collaboratively as part of a team- whether led or leading
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
Avanti House is a secondary school 11-19 school that opened in 2012. Currently there are 1232 students with a Sixth Form of 320. Avanti schools are Hindu-designated faith schools. However, all staff members at Avanti House School will not be required to present themselves from any specific faith background and there will be no preference given in this regard. This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues its journey to outstanding.
Avanti House provides an extensive professional development network through the Avanti Institute including an excellent ECT and ECT plus one programme of development - Avanti Institute – Part of the Avanti Schools Trust
This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:
- Educational Excellence
- Character formation
- Spiritual insight
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment.
- A strong vision of Educational Excellence, Character Formation and Spiritual Insight
- Great opportunities for professional development
- Teachers pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
- O2 discounts
- NUS Card
- Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Access to multiple well-being programmes
- Cycle to work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
Plus many more!
Further details about the role
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
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About Avanti House School
- School type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1231 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Avanti House School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- careers@avanti.org.uk
Avanti House Secondary School is an inclusive Hindu faith school based in Harrow, open to students of all faiths.
What makes Avanti Secondary School distinctive is its values-based approach to education. This encourages students to value self, others and the environment and empowers them to be effective learners as well as good citizens. The school offers a traditional and extensive curriculum, but also offers a focused study of Ethics, Philosophy, Sanskrit, Meditation and Yoga.
In 2022 our Year 11 students gained excellent GCSE examination results with 89% of students gaining at least a Grade 4 in both their Mathematics and English qualifications. Students gained excellent results in a wide range of subjects across the curriculum and many have progressed into our Sixth Form. Our Sixth Form has grown from an initial 36 students in 2018 to over 320 this year. This highlights the quality of the teaching and learning across the school and the vast majority of the pupils studying in our Sixth Form progress onto their first choice universities and apprenticeship schemes.
A wide range of extra-curricular opportunities enable the students to develop their own characters and become outstanding citizens. Our most recent Ofsted highlights that the behaviour and attitudes shown by pupils and adults are exemplary and the provision for pupils, spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is exceptional.
Avanti House Secondary School is based in a large site in Wemborough Road, Stanmore. The multi-million pound complex boasts state of the art science labs, computing rooms, design and technology workshops and classrooms that will enable students to make outstanding progress through exceptional teaching and learning. The fantastic sports and arts facilities also enable the students to excel and further develop their passions in these areas through extra-curricular activities and our successful sports teams.
Arranging a visit to Avanti House School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email careers@avanti.org.uk.
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