Head of Geography
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Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
12 April 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L5 to L9
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Good understanding of your subject secondary curriculum, KeyStage 3 to Key Stage 5
- Knowledge of current issues facing subject departments
- A 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 provide clear evaluation and strategies for improvement for leadership teams and departments
- Ability to use data to analyse and evaluate school/departmental performance
- Knowledge of Ofsted inspection framework and Evaluation Schedule
- Good understanding and knowledge of current and new examination specifications
- Ability to offer advice on school-based assessments and on examination preparation for examinations
- Able to assess school-based assessments accurately and identify strategies for improvement
- Experience of exam board marking
- Knowledge and understanding or marking criteria and using experience of this to support departmental colleagues
What the school offers its staff
Outwood Grange Academies Trust supports colleagues by funding an extensive range of accredited training courses and apprenticeship opportunities up to Masters level. We also offer:
- 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
- Nursery voucher scheme
- Free flu vaccinations
- Free onsite parking
- Employee discounts such as competitively priced Synergy Car Leasing
- Access to various discount sites
- Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to:
- Specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues
- Emotional support and counselling for a wide range of personal and work issues
- Legal guidance
- Financial guidance and debt counselling
- Child and dependent care support and advice
- Support for managers
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 Grange Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1995 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Outwood Grange Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- r.brickwood@grange.outwood.com
- Phone number
- 01924 204350
Arranging a visit to Outwood Grange Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email r.brickwood@grange.outwood.com.
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