Head of Computing, IT and Creative Media
Jesmond Park Academy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE7 7DP7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
29 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650 - £49,084pa + TLR1a £9,782pa
Head of Computing, IT and Creative Media job summary
ABOUT THE ACADEMY
Jesmond Park Academy is a thriving and fully subscribed comprehensive school servicing around 2,100 students from Year 7 to Sixth Form. Our academy has a real sense of community, occupying an iconic site and building equipped with exceptional resources. Our staff have a real passion for education in its broadest sense and we are committed to achieving the best for all of the students in our care, enabling them to make excellent progress and achieve their goals and dreams. Part of Gosforth Group, our academy has undergone a rapid period of change and improvement and continues striving to become one of Newcastle’s leading academies. We offer a positive working experience with an enthusiastic staff team focused on delivering our goals. If you genuinely desire to do the best for our students, want to be part of an already successful team and support us on our journey to becoming an outstanding academy - we want to hear from you.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking to appoint a Head of Computing, IT and Creative Media. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a strong, experienced department who fulfil an important part of our curriculum. The department teaches all students in school, running courses at KS3, KS4 and KS5, including A Level, GCSE and vocational level. The ability to teach Computing A Level is essential, as is excellent subject knowledge and understanding of the changing demands of vocational qualifications.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
As the Head of Computing, IT, and Creative Media, you will be a confident and inspirational leader who is passionate about enhancing the departments capability, offering and reputation, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
You will have sound working experience of overseeing curriculum development, in particular experience of aligning the prospectus with industry standards and emerging technologies, as well as experience of developing and delivering cutting-edge programs which meet the highest standards of quality and relevance.
To find out more about the essential requirements to be successful in the role of Head of Computing, IT, and Creative Media, please review the person specification and ensure you evidence the essential requirements within your application.
This role is not suitable for ECT’s.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
- A competitive salary
- Generous annual leave
- Benefits including; excellent pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, free on-site parking
- An opportunity to work with highly-skilled professionals
- Enthusiastic and motivated students
- An exciting and extensive commitment to professional development
- A school with its community at heart
- An exciting programme of staff well-being activities
- Wider career development opportunities to be involved across the Gosforth Group
If you would like to discuss this vacancy further or would like an informal visit of the school, please contact Andy Costello, Deputy Principal email acostello@jesmondparkacademy.org.uk or telephone 0191 2818486.
Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received, and so early application is encouraged. We reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.
Following the shortlisting process, where applicable, candidates who attend interview will be reimbursed reasonable expenses for travel and accommodation.
Commitment to safeguarding
Gosforth Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. References will normally be requested prior to interview for those candidates shortlisted. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, along with other relevant pre-employment checks, including an online check.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Jesmond Park Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2037 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Jesmond Park Academy website (opens in new tab)
About the Trust
Gosforth Group are a dynamic and diverse Multi Academy Trust – this means we have a clear energy and purpose and all students are valued equally, regardless of their background or ability. We are a growing multi-academy trust currently comprising of 6 academies, two of which opened in September 2021. The Trust currently has approx. 6000 students and 650 staff. ‘Create your future’ encapsulates our purpose as a Multi Academy Trust: to educate, support and nurture all of our students so they can achieve their potential and fulfil their ambitious aspirations.
About the Academy
Jesmond Park Academy is a large, thriving and fully subscribed comprehensive school, which is rapidly making progress towards our vision of being outstanding. As a member of the Gosforth Group we are working in partnership to lay the foundations for what promises to be an exciting and rapid period of change and development in the school’s history. Our academy offers a positive working experience, with an enthusiastic staff firmly focused on us becoming a leading academy in the city. If you want to be part of realising our vision, play your part in helping us to build on our already significant progress and development, and have a genuine desire to do the best for our students, then come and join us on our journey to being outstanding.
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