Head of Computer Science
Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PXThis job expired on 11 November 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
11 November 2024 at 8am
Date listed
17 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- ICT & Computing
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,756.00 - £49,661.00 Annually (Actual) AST 1-6 plus Head of Department Allowance £31,756-£49,661
Head of Computer Science job summary
Head of Computer Science
We are seeking to appoint a Head of Computer Science to deliver high quality subject leadership and teaching for our growing secondary school, located in Kingsland campus in Houghton Regis.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a committed, friendly and professional team of middle leaders and teachers providing a transformational quality of education to the pupils in our thriving school. At Houstone, our values of aspiration, endeavour, and respect, underpinned by very high expectations and drive in everything that we do. We have a powerful culture which is warm but strict, based on clear routines, systems, and structures. As a result, our teachers enjoy their teaching with impeccable behaviour in lessons and hardworking, highly motivated pupils.
Joining Houstone School as a Head of Department is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our story – providing transformational experiences for thousands of pupils, developing our staff to be the very best they can be, and influencing the wider system by demonstrating first-hand what is achievable
JOB SPECIFICS
Start date: January 2025
Salary: AST 1-6 plus Head of Department Allowance. £31,756-£49,661
Job role: Full time, Permanent
MAIN DUTIES
To inspire, lead, manage and develop the teaching staff within the department
To refine and deliver a world-class curriculum in Computer Science.
To ensure that teaching and learning is supported by the most robust research and evidence
To prepare pupils for academic success and inspire a love of learning that goes beyond examinations
To be accountable for raising standards of pupil achievement within the department and to monitor and support pupil progress
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of developments within your specialism
To be a member of the middle leaders’ group and support the wider development and leadership within the school
To be a designated form tutor and the key home-school link for pupils.
WHY HOUSTONE SCHOOL?
Houstone School is a brand new secondary school, which opened in September 2022, we opened with pupils in Year 7-10, and from September 2023 we have pupils in all year groups.
At Houstone, our values of aspiration, endeavour, and respect, underpinned by very high expectations and drive in everything that we do. We have a powerful culture which is warm but strict, based on clear routines, systems, and structures. As a result, our teachers enjoy their teaching with impeccable behaviour in lessons and hardworking, highly motivated pupils.
The successful candidate will be intrinsic in further developing a school that will offer families a genuine choice of an excellent education for their child, including:
A disciplined “can do” culture that allows every student to be known, feel safe, and be cared for
An intensive focus on the basics of reading, writing and maths
An academic, knowledge-rich curriculum that values the distinctiveness of subject disciplines
Excellent quality, evidence-based classroom practice
High quality PSHE provision
Plentiful, high quality enrichment opportunities, including trips, visits, after-school clubs and sporting fixtures
HOW TO APPLY
We welcome applications from ambitious and inspirational teachers who share our traditional approach and values of Respect, Honesty and High Expectations. To apply please fill in the application form and supporting statement illustrating how you meet the person specification for this role.
We welcome visits to the school at any time and would encourage you to apply. For a confidential discussion about the position please contact Nafisa Khan, Business Support Officer on 01582 377771 or email nkhan@houstoneschool.co.uk to arrange an appointment.
SAFEGUARDING
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
About Houstone School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 657 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Houstone School website
Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.
There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.
Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.
Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.
We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.
Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.
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