Head of Key Stage
Ixworth High School, Ixworth, Suffolk, IP31 2HS10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
8 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L01 - L05
What skills and experience we're looking for
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Personal Qualities
Sapientia Education Trust expects its teachers to have the following personal qualities:
- Be an innovative, independent thinker with the capacity for strategic thinking;
- Be creative and proactive in finding solutions;
- Be flexible and adaptive to changing needs and priorities;
- Be resilient, calm and tenacious under pressure;
- Be insightful and analytical with good problem-solving skills;
- Have excellent communication skills and evidence of being able to build and sustain effective working relationships with staff, students, parents and the wider community;
- Be a self-reflective practitioner who always seeks to improve;
- See the ‘big picture’ in relation to whole school priorities & improvement;
- Able to reason their educational philosophy, in tune with the school ethos;
- Be willing to contribute to the extra-curricular life of the school;
- Possess a sense of humour;
- Have the ability to inspire and enthuse staff and students about their subject;
- Be highly self-motivated, able to energise and motivate others;
- Be insightful and understanding of national, international and research developments relevant to teaching and learning in their subject.
Professional Competence.
Sapientia Education Trust expects its teachers to have the following professional competences, or in the case of newly qualified teachers, the Trust would expect them to develop the following competences:
- Be an Outstanding Teacher (or have the potential to be) with evidence of impact on student outcomes with a proven track record of total commitment to helping every student achieve their very best and make progress;
- Have excellent understanding of what constitutes excellence in teaching and learning;
- Have a keen understanding of data and be able to analyse patterns in performance over time;
- Be a positive role model for students and staff on a day-to-day basis;
- Collaborate effectively with staff, parents/carers and students;
- Liaise and work with partner schools, HEIs, Examination Boards and other relevant external agencies in the pursuit of continued improvement;
- Excite and engage visitors about the school at Open Evenings and all other events;
- Have very high expectations of the learning of all students at all times;
- Work with colleagues across all key stages to ensure embedded transition from Key Stage 2 to 5.
What the school offers its staff
Good Local Government Pension Scheme, Health Hero Employee Assistance Programme, Pluxee High Street Benefits package as well as ability to sign up for Teacher Discounts and Blue Light Card. Free Onsite Parking
Further details about the role
JOB SPECIFICATION
General Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be employed as a teacher under the standard conditions of service for teachers at Sapientia Education Trust.
The teacher will be responsible to the Headteacher for teaching classes using their skill, experience and best endeavors and in accordance with Teachers’ Standards. They will abide by the Code of Conduct for Staff and Volunteers.
Sapientia Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
A non-exhaustive list of specific responsibilities for the role is below and you will be required to undertake other duties and responsibilities as may reasonably be required.
Specific Responsibilities
- To provide high quality leadership of the Lower School Pastoral Team;
- To take a full part in the extended leadership group;
- To be fully involved in improvement and self-evaluation activities at a whole school level;
- To lead on the planning, delivery and assessment of high quality pastoral support across the lower school;
- To lead on the planning and effective delivery of pastoral support across the lower school;
- To lead on the development of innovative thinking about pastoral support across the lower school;
- To liaise and collaborate with senior colleagues, curriculum leaders and other pastoral leaders to support with the strategic development of good practise across the school;
- In addition to carrying out the professional duties of a teacher other than a Headteacher, as described in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document, and in meeting the Post Threshold Standards for a Teacher as laid out in the Professional Standards for Teachers, you will be responsible to the Head for the following specific areas.
KEY TASKS:
Leadership of teachers
- To provide high quality leadership, support and challenge to the Lower school Pastoral Team;
- To provide high quality leadership to create very effective teams and drive improvement;
- To oversee, monitor and quality assure the mentoring and support of students in the lower school;
- To ensure that strong procedures are undertaken in the lower school for the recording, monitoring analysing and acting upon a range of data to enable the team to support students in the lower school;
- Evaluate the quality and appropriateness of intervention to tackle student underachievement;
- The performance management and professional development of all members of your team.
Other Management roles
- To monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and learning in lower school form activities;
- To monitor curriculum coverage in form time for students of all ability levels;
- To work in close partnership with the SENDCo to provide high quality support for SEN students in order to secure ‘good’ attendance, behaviour and progress;
- To review staff performance and audit training needs as required;
- To monitor and evaluate the progress made in achieving the lower school development plan and targets;
- To report regularly to the Leadership Group and Governors on all aspects of academic progress in the lower school;
- To contribute fully to the implementation of School policies to raise student attendance, behaviour and progress;
- To interpret and use national, local and school-level performance data to help raise achievement and ‘close the gap’ for key student groups in the school;
- To ensure the effective development of students’ literacy, numeracy and ICT skills through form time;
- To be responsible for the consistent implementation and evaluation of behaviour management for lower school studnets;
- To meet and work with parents, carers and other agencies as required.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ixworth High School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 528 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ixworth High School website
- Email address
- HR@setrust.co.uk
SET Ixworth school is a small / medium-sized high school set in the wonderful Suffolk countryside. We are over-subscribed and will have over 600 pupils in the school by September 2024.
The school enjoys a positive reputation in the community, as evidenced by the high demand for Year 7 places in September 2024. The students demonstrate respect, motivation and good behaviour in their learning.
The school's vision is to provide an education system that truly serves those it educates by always reflecting on and addressing individual needs, strengths, and interests. There is a Specialist Resource Base on site for around 12 pupils, supporting pupils with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities.
The school is currently a “good” school according to Ofsted, with an inspection from September 2019.
Arranging a visit to Ixworth High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@setrust.co.uk.
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