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Head of English

Birches Head Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 8DD

3 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2024

• Closing date

  7 May 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time: Mon - Fri 8.30am to 3.20pm
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: M1 £30000 - UPS3 £46525
• Additional allowances:

  TLR1B £11416

What skills and experience we're looking for

Monitor and evaluate the planning of other teachers, providing

constructive feedback on a regular basis

• Disseminate examples of effective planning practice

• Ensure that teachers aware of the needs of inclusion of all students

and groups and make provision for this in their planning

• Ensure that feedback from observations, scrutinies and analysis of

data is appropriately reflected in teachers planning

• Ensure teachers are clear about the teaching of learning objectives,

outcomes, understand sequence of teaching and learning in the

subject and communicate this to students

• Observe colleagues and provide evaluative feedback of effectiveness

Accountability for leading, managing and developing the

subject:

• Identify relevant school improvement issues

• Define and agree appropriate improvement targets

• Co-ordinate CPD needs and opportunities

• Evaluate impact of all improvement activities on the quality of

learning and teaching

• Provide the Principal with relevant performance information

Line Management responsibility:

• Ensure performance management arrangements are effectively

discharged

• Monitor and evaluate contribution and impact of other staff to

school improvement in relation to subject

• Plan the deployment of staff expertise to achieve school and subject

improvement objectives

• Take responsibility for pastoral care of team

• Manage departmental budget effectivelyWorking with relevant managers and teachers:

• Identify appropriate attainment and achievement targets
• Monitor and evaluate student standards and achievement against annual

targets and over time

• Monitor planning, curriculum coverage and learning outcomes
• Monitor standards of student behaviour and application of school policies and

strategies

• Lead evaluation strategies to contribute to overall school self-evaluation
• Ensure that relevant attainment and achievement targets are met
• Define intervention strategies to address issues for development that are

identified

• Evaluate and report on the effectiveness of intervention strategies used to

address identified issues

• Identify quantifiable and challenging student progress objectives managers and

teachers their performance management objectives

• Support teachers in planning appropriate strategies to achieve student progress

against target levels and objectives

• Ensure that agreed student progress target levels within the subject area are

achieved or exceeded

• Monitor the objectives and targets for all students including those with SEN, EAL

and promote the importance of raising their achievement

Leading, developing and enhancing the teaching practice of others:

• Maintain personal teaching expertise to a high standard and share expertise

with others

• Act as role model of good classroom practice for other teachers, modelling

effective strategies with them

• Plan and implement strategies to improve teaching, identifying areas for

improvement

What the school offers its staff

- Electric Car Scheme

-Cycle Scheme

-Medicash

- Employee Assistance Programme

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.

Applying for the job

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Please complete the online application.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

About Birches Head Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1024 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Birches Head Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: jbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk
• Phone number: 01782233595
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/birches-head-academy (opens in new tab)

Arranging a visit to Birches Head Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk.

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