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Head of History

Great Academy Ashton, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, OL6 8RF

This job expired on 31 March 2023

• Job start date

  1 September 2023

• Closing date

  31 March 2023 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  20 March 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of year, department, curriculum or phase
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: History
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - Full time Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS + TLR 2B
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 2B £5,024

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Supporting good or better teaching and learning in the subject

• Securing and excellent pupil outcomes in the subject

• Ensuring a high quality, strategic and responsive curriculum provision is in place

• Monitoring pupil progress

• Contributing to subject specific CPD in a strategic way to link to improvement

objectives, personal need and appraisal and to ensure improved outcomes

• Implementing intervention strategies to raise achievement of underachieving studentgroups, including disadvantaged, HAPs, students with EAL or SEN;

• • Delivering excellent teaching practice and raising standards of teaching and learningwithin the faculty, in line with Academy targets;

• Engaging in coaching and mentoring

• Keeping an up-to-date knowledge of subject, national developments, pedagogy,

classroom management, research and inspection findings with colleagues;

• Any other duties which may, from time to time, reasonably be required by the Principaland are within the general level of responsibility of the post.

What the school offers its staff

At GAA, we value our staff and are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive workenvironment. Here are just some of the benefits you can expect when you join our team:

• Free health protection: We understand the importance of health and wellbeing, which is whywe offer free health protection staff, including free NHS health checks and yearly fluvaccinations.

• Discount for teachers: We offer discounts to teachers to help with the cost of living, we alsopay extra for duties and an added bonus if you are an external examiner for your subject

• Cycle to work scheme: We encourage sustainable transportation options by offering a cycleto work scheme.

• Wider personal benefits such as discounted eye tests, well-being clinics, dentistry, financialand legal advice.

• Extensive leadership and subject based CPD, including paid memberships for the followingprofessional bodies: Charter College membership,

Chartered Institute of Educational

Assessors membership and Subject Association memberships.

• Paid bonuses for those staff who are markers for examination bodies.

• Committed to supporting the well-being of our workforce, we are part to the DfE Workforce

Wellbeing Charter and have an Assistant Principal with a strategic lead for staff well-being.

We have implemented several initiatives to reduce workload, including assessing theworkload of new initiatives, reduced unnecessary communication through email protocols, have a staff well-being working group and we conduct regular well-being questionnaires to guide further improvements.

At GAA, we believe that happy and supported staff leads to better outcomes for our students. If youare passionate about history and committed to transforming the lives of young people then join ourteam and experience the benefits of working in a school that values its staff and its community. Weoffer an excellent induction and support programme for new teachers.

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JD Head of History.pdf - 49 KB (opens in new tab)

Person Specification Head of History.pdf - 42.3 KB (opens in new tab)

Head of History (Advert) March 2023 (2).pdf - 125 KB (opens in new tab)

About Great Academy Ashton

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1297 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Great Academy Ashton website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@gaa.org.uk
• Phone number: 0161 241 9555
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/great-academy-ashton (opens in new tab)

Arranging a visit to Great Academy Ashton

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

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