Head of Geography
Greenford High School, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 2GU13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Summer or Autumn Term
Closing date
28 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 January 2025
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
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1-M6/UPS1-3 Inner London £38,766 - £60,092
Additional allowances
TLR1d £9,782
What skills and experience we're looking for
We seek an experienced and proactive individual who is keen to guide and support both staff and students to achieve their potential. The successful candidate will lead and improve learning and teaching throughout the curriculum area, ensuring the highest achievable standards are attained through training, observations, coaching and using department meeting time, enabling staff to work positively and collectively. They will be expected to develop the content of the curriculum, creating a challenging and appropriate course, tracking student progress and analysing data to raise achievement where necessary.
- Understanding of and knowledge of the school’s child protection and safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Understanding and/or experience of current developments in the secondary curriculum
- Understanding of current approaches to assessment, recording and reporting procedures at various levels
- Knowledge of the implications for teaching in a multicultural environment
- Knowledge and understanding of issues related to equal opportunities and their implications for classroom practices in teaching
- Knowledge and awareness of the extended schools programme
- Knowledge of the impact of ICT and Virtual Learning Environments in the field of education
- Ability to liaise with other teaching staff and work in co-operation with colleagues
- Ability to motivate pupils through the use of a variety of teaching methods and the setting of appropriate goals and monitoring of progress
- Ability to assess, monitor and report on students’ progress
- Ability to effectively manage, organise and control students’ working
- Ability to adopt flexible teaching and learning strategies
Professional Skills - to be demonstrated to the interviewing panel’s satisfaction
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing
- Ability to successful encourage students to the highest standards of individual achievement
What the school offers its staff
As part of the GHS community, you will benefit from our outstanding record of learning, development and promotion opportunities, as well as the high value we place on our staff achieving success in their career.
About Greenford High School
Over the last decade we have consistently achieved outcomes that have placed us in the top 5-10% of schools nationally for student progress. We aim for all students to achieve excellent academic results and many gain places at top universities, but we are also a truly comprehensive school which tries to get the best out of every child, whatever their ability or circumstances. We value our students’ personal development and always support trips, visits, speakers and extra-curricular experiences where we can. We are known for our exceptionally strong relationships between staff and students and for our staff promotion opportunities across many areas of the school.
Our facilities are superb with a university campus style layout, extensive IT facilities, large, expansive playing fields and a purpose-built block for Year 7. We also have one of the largest Post-16 Centres in London with designated study and support areas.
‘Learning to Succeed’
Our motto encapsulates our vision; we are all on a continuous journey of learning, whilst trying to achieve success in everything that we do. Our aim is for students to fulfil their limitless potential – through perseverance and effort. We don’t select our students, but we do select our staff. Each highly trained staff member is here to support, guide, inspire our students so that whatever their starting point when they arrive, they leave with the world at their feet – equipped and ready to continue their learning through apprenticeships, at university and throughout their careers.
Staff benefits include:
✔ generous non-contact time;
✔ a supportive approach to approving staff leave of absences;
✔ small class sizes where possible;
✔ financial assistance for Masters and further degrees;
✔ a partnership with the Institute of Education and Teach First;
✔ an outstanding record of staff achieving promotion;
✔ the opportunity to train and mentor student teachers;
✔ free on-site car parking spaces and secure bicycle storage;
✔ free access to onsite ‘Everyone Active’ sporting facilities and fitness gym;
✔ access to the ‘Workplace Options’ staff support scheme and onsite counselling;
✔ plenty of opportunities to teach Post 16;
✔ staff social events and staff well-being sessions.
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 Greenford High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2015 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Greenford High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@greenford.ealing.sch.uk
GHS is a large, multi-cultural, mixed gender, non-selective High School based in Southall, Ealing. We have a large Post-16 centre of over 500 students and our own "school within a school": I-Block, a "stepping stone" for Yrs. 7 & 8. Over the last decade we have consistently been in the top 5% of schools for student progress.
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