Head of Mathematics (Secondary Department)

Pine Green Academy, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 0UB

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  21 January 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  7 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: Mathematics
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours - Full time/All year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650 - £49,084
• Pay scale: M1 to UPS3
• Additional allowances:

  Plus SEN Allowance and TLR

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you a passionate and experienced mathematics teacher ready to take on an exciting leadership role? Do you have the skills, resilience, and empathy to support pupils with Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) needs? If so, join Pine Green Academy as Head of Mathematics and lead our team in transforming lives through education.

The main points to this role are: -

• Lead the Maths Department, overseeing and providing guidance to a small team of up to two additional staff members.
• Prepare teaching materials, set up the classroom and organise displays supporting the current curriculum
• Nurture and counsel learners and help them make sense of their intellectual, emotional and social needs
• Talk to parents/carers about their children's progress
• Follow safeguarding procedures and work with outside agencies to support the pupils learning
• Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the school’s policies, practices and procedures in such a way as to support the school’s values and vision.

What the school offers its staff

Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme

• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.

Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.

• Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
• Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
• Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
• Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
• Participating in peer reviews.
• Access to a suite of online courses.
• Placement projects within our family of schools.

Flexible working opportunities

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.

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.

Applying for the job

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Pine Green Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 16
• School size: 116 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Pine Green Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/pine-green-academy (opens in new tab)

The School, formerly known as Valley Park School, offers specialist provision for children and young people aged 6 to 16 with social, emotional and mental health needs.

Situated within a unique and engaging urban forest campus, they are able to offer a comprehensive package of both academic and pastoral support to meet the complex needs of young people who have SEMH needs.

The school motto, ‘Believe, Achieve, Succeed’, is not merely a slogan but a guiding principle for whole school improvement, in which a culture of aspiration, achievement and personal growth is developed.

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