Head of Economics
Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQThis job expired on 20 March 2023
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
20 March 2023 at 9am
Date listed
9 March 2023
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 5
Subject
- Economics
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Teachers' Main/Upper Pay Scale
Additional allowances
TLR(2)1 £3,017
What skills and experience we're looking for
Education/Training
Essential:
- Graduate (Economics or related discipline)
- PGCE or appropriate teacher training
Desirable:
- Graduate in Economics
Relevant Experience
Essential:
- Teaching in a secondary school
- Teaching A-Level Economics
- Awareness of equal opportunities issues
Desirable:
- Leadership within an Economics department
- Teaching in a mixed 11-18 comprehensive school
- Experience as a Tutor
- Experience of delivering training and mentoring
- Experience of organising events including off-timetable experiences
- Experience of working collaboratively with a range of organisations and leading multi-agency initiatives and meetings
- Strategic leadership of interventions and data analysis to raise achievement
Relevant Skills/Aptitudes:
Teaching and Learning
Essential:
- Excellent classroom teacher who models good pedagogy
- Ability to teach Economics to the full range of abilities
- Good motivator
- Inspiring role model
- Good behaviour management strategies with the ability to disseminate good practice
- Good rapport with students, parents and professionals
- Ability to get the best out of students, helping all to reach their academic potential
- Ability to address large audiences, students and adults
- Proactive, visible presence around the school, supporting both Duty Staff and Site Teams
- Good people-management skills
Desirable:
- Appropriate ICT skills
- Ability to teach a second subject
- Involvement in activities outside the classroom to motivate students
- Experience of monitoring and evaluating student performance and of strategic thinking
- Broad understanding of what makes a challenging and stimulating curriculum
Leadership
- High expectations of colleagues
- A strong understanding of curriculum and learning issues
- Proactive as a leader of initiatives
- A supportive and guiding influence
- Good team worker, listener and communicator
Safeguarding
- Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people.
- Motivation to work with children and young people
- Emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours and situations with students and staff
Special Requirements
- Team-worker
- Committed to high standards from students
- Passion for Economics
- Understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
What the school offers its staff
- The school offers pay and conditions of service set out in the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document and Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS).
- Lord Williams’s School recognises previous continuous service with any Local Authority.
- Priority for places at Lord Williams's School Nursery.
- Accommodation in our on-site boarding house
- Discounts at local gyms, swimming pools and spas
- Staff social events including parties, quiz nights, pop-up socials and pub trips
- Cycle to work scheme
Staff sports - football, squash, cricket and walking weekends
- Free eye tests and flu vaccinations
- Employee Assistance programme
- Free on-site parking
- On-site catering facilities
- Discounts at local pubs, shops and car garages
- Priority for places with the on-site Nursery
- Staff recognition initiatives
- Long service awards
Commitment to safeguarding
Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Lord Williams's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2276 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lord Williams's School website
- Email address
- h.tait@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01844 210621
Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.
We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.
We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.
The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.
Arranging a visit to Lord Williams's School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email h.tait@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk.
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