Head of Computer Science, ICT and Business MPS/UPS + TLR2A
Manor Community Academy, Hartlepool, Teesside, TS25 3PSThis job expired on 22 March 2019 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2019
Closing date
22 March 2019 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
19 March 2019
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- View all ICTjobs
Working pattern
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £23,720 to £39,406
Additional allowances
STP&CD + TLR2A
Head of Computer Science, ICT and Business MPS/UPS + TLR2A job summary
JOB PURPOSE
The Head of Department is accountable for:
Carrying out the professional duties of a teacher in accordance with Academy policies and under the direction of the Principal.
The quality of teaching and learning in the department
Overall student outcomes in the department in partnership with the teachers concerned
Evaluation of relevant assessment information for individuals, groups and cohorts
Induction and support of new staff
Ensuring good pastoral care and personal development for students
Ensuring good behaviour and encouraging good attendance and punctuality
Presenting information and evaluation reports to the senior leadership team, parents and Academy Council members, as requested
Arranging and promoting activities across the department to foster personal development, commitment and enthusiasm in students
Liaison with external agencies as required for pupils in the department
Performance management of teachers in the department as required
Ensuring that departmental budgets are deployed effectively and achieve value for money
To ensure that the curriculum fully meets the needs of all students and effectively delivered in all respects
To actively promote the development across the Academy
To further investigate vocational qualifications that can be delivered by the department
Some of these specific accountabilities may be assigned to other TLR post holders in the department but the head of department remains accountable for their overall achievement.
JOB SUMMARY
1. Maintaining a focus on teaching and learning
2. Exercising appropriate professional skills and judgement
3. Accountability for leading, managing and developing a subject or curriculum area or student development in the Department
4. Working with other relevant teachers in the department:
• Identify relevant department improvement issues
• Define and agree appropriate improvement targets
• Co-ordinate CPD needs and opportunities for department staff
• Evaluate the impact of all improvement activities on the quality of teaching and learning
• Provide the Senior Leadership Team with relevant subject, curriculum area or student performance information
5. Having impact on educational progress beyond personally assigned students in the Department
6. Working with other relevant teachers and staff in the department:
• Identify appropriate attainment and/or achievement targets
• Monitor pupil standards and achievement against annual targets
• Monitor planning, curriculum coverage and learning outcomes
• Monitor standards of pupil behaviour and application
• Lead evaluation strategies to contribute to overall Academy self-evaluation
• Plan and implement strategies where improvement needs are identified
• Ensure that relevant attainment / achievement targets are met
7. Leading, developing and enhancing the teaching practice of others
8. Working with other relevant teachers and staff in the department:
• Maintain personal expertise and share this with other teachers
• Act as a role model of good classroom practice for other teachers, modelling effective strategies with them
• Monitor and evaluate standards of teaching, identifying areas for improvement
• Plan and implement strategies to improve teaching where needs are identified
• Induct, support and monitor new staff
• Act as a performance management team leader for identified teachers
9. Line management responsibility for a significant number of people:
• Ensure that performance management arrangements are effectively discharged by other team leaders in the department
• Monitor the effectiveness and impact of performance management arrangements within the department (subject to the performance management policy)
• Monitor and evaluate the contribution and impact of other staff in the Department to Academy improvement
• Provide quality assurance monitoring and intervention with staff as agreed with the senior leadership team
• Identify staff development needs and co-ordinate these with those responsible for CPD in the Academy
• Plan the deployment of staff expertise to achieve departmental improvement objectives
• Take initial responsibility for the pastoral care and welfare of all department staff
GENERAL
1. To participate in wider Academy meetings and working groups as required.
2. All staff of the Northern Education Trust will abide by the one academy rule: ‘All students and adults are expected to behave in a responsible manner both to themselves and others, showing consideration, courtesy and respect for other people at all times’.
NET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including an enhanced DBS check. Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified and the post holder may reasonably be expected to undertake other duties commensurate with the level of responsibility that may be allocated from time to time.
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.
About Manor Community Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1029 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Manor Community Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- s.smart@northerneducationtrust.org
Northern Education Trust is a not-for-profit education charity, operating within the North East and North West of England, and works with schools by invitation only. It was formed in 2012 and currently sponsors 22 Academies – 10 primary and 12 secondary – making it one of the largest Multi Academy Trusts in the North of England. All of the Trust’s primary schools are rated either Good or Outstanding by Ofsted, as are all the Trust’s secondary schools which have been inspected whilst sponsored by NET.
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