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Head of English

Winton Community Academy, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 2PS

This job expired on 29 May 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  29 May 2024 at 12:48pm

• Date listed

  15 May 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £53380 - £58959 per annum

Head of English job summary

Leadership Pay Scale L6 - L10 + AET Wellbeing Cash Plan + Car Scheme + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Additional AET Benefits

Full Time- Permanent

September 2024 Start Date

We are thrilled to announce a fantastic opening for the Head of English position at our prestigious Academy. The main goal of this role is to provide guidance, inspiration, and assistance to a talented department, ensuring the delivery of top-notch teaching and learning, ultimately leading to remarkable outcomes.

The perfect candidate for this position will have previous experience in leading English or be a skilled English teacher who is ready to embrace this chance for middle leadership. We are looking for someone who is optimistic, forward-looking, and possesses outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to effectively motivate and develop the team. Moreover, the successful candidate will be a high achiever, consistently setting and maintaining high expectations to drive exceptional results. This opportunity will be ideal for those with aspirations for senior leadership in the future.

At Winton Community Academy, our students are diverse, exciting and talented - and the same is true of our staff. We put huge emphasis on professional development, most of it in-house, and are proud of the high number of good and outstanding teachers who work in our school. We are also noted for our 'can do' attitude. We are keen, always, to encourage new and/or young staff to make their mark as soon as they are ready.

We are proud to serve the communities around Andover in the centre of Hampshire, a short commute from Winchester, Salisbury and many picturesque Hampshire villages. Ofsted judged us as a 'Good academy' in January 2018 and with a new, passionate Principal, Rebecca Clark in place, we are looking to build upon our strengths and develop into a truly outstanding place to learn and teach.

School visits are welcome, to arrange please contact Jackie Lusk,

The role is due to commence September 2024.

Closing date: 24th May 2024.

Interviews are scheduled to take place as soon as possible.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

In line with our safeguarding practices we are unable to accept CV's. Apply today.

Academies Enterprise Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a robust, fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Academies Enterprise Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Commitment to safeguarding

Trust-wide Safeguarding Policies and Guidance
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xx9JeXoOZqGWNwpks3UhEqn8Yi7Xjx5-3LIgS4MUJe0/edit#heading=h.e1w5fdpkhr1m

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About Winton Community Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1000 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Winton Community Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/winton-community-academy

The school has rapidly improved and was graded a "Good" school by Ofsted in 2018. Our school is quickly gaining a positive reputation across Andover as a place where excellent teaching and strong support means that students thrive at our school.

Our students are our absolute strength. They are overwhelmingly polite, respectful and hard-working. We expect our students to work hard and behave well both inside and outside of the classroom. Over the last two years we have invested heavily in improving the resources that students have access to such as a new dance studio, a new library and the development of our animal management area as we believe our students deserve the best in order to be successful. As a community, we live and breathe our school values as we all understand that by adhering to them our community will be a better place to learn.

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