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  • Job start date

    1 January 2025

  • Closing date

    20 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    2 October 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Head of year or phase
  • Head of department or curriculum

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Subject

Computing

Working pattern

Full time: Full Time Monday to Friday 32.5 Hours

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

L1 to L5

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Experience of managing and leading a new initiative across a department or whole school;
  • Evidence of involvement in transformational change within a department;
  • Successful experience at teaching at all key stages;
  • An outstanding classroom practitioner with a clear direction and vision for teaching;
  • Good understanding of secondary curriculum;
  • Knowledge of issues facing subject departments;
  • Record of appropriate and continuing CPD;
  • Good understanding of school improvement and Ofsted inspection programmes;
  • Knowledge of departmental monitoring and tracking systems and their role in securing improvement;
  • Ability to use data to analyse and evaluate performance.

What the school offers its staff

  • Your starting salary plus annual inflation linked increases. The starting salary will be dependent on experience.
  • We follow the principles of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document
  • You will be automatically enrolled into the generous Teachers’ Pension Scheme
  • Pay progression happens automatically on the anniversary of the target period appropriate to your role
  • Flexible family friendly policies from day one
  • We have our own Workload Charter and are committed to ensuring that Teachers’ workloads are manageable
  • All teachers receive an allotted minimum of two hours CPD each week
  • Access to centralised resources to support with lesson planning and reducing workload
  • Comprehensive induction and training process

You will also be automatically enrolled into our Employee Assistance Programme.

We are also a wellbeing employer with a dedicated wellbeing policy and menopause policy, along with menopause champions based in our academies. Other benefits include:

  • Free flu vaccinations;
  • Free onsite parking;
  • Employee discounts such as competitively priced Synergy Car Leasing;
  • Access to various discount sites.

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.

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About Outwood Academy City Fields

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
855 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16

Secondary Academy

Arranging a visit to Outwood Academy City Fields

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email a.jarrett@cityfields.outwood.com.

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