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  • Job start date

    1 January 2025

  • Closing date

    15 October 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    4 October 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Head of department or curriculum

Visa sponsorship

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Key stage

Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subject

Mathematics

Working pattern

Full time: Monday to Friday

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

M1 to UPS3

Additional allowances

TLR 1.2 £11,413

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will:

  • Have experience teaching across the key stages.
  • Be a consistently good/outstanding teacher

  • Be an exceptional classroom practitioner with high expectations of both learning and behaviour
  • Able to inspire, motivate and enthuse pupils
  • Be committed to raising standards for all and share the same drive to constantly learn and improve
  • Show willingness to lead initiatives and show evidence of impact.
  • Demonstrate a passion to make a difference to others
  • Be proficient with the use of technology for learning and have a willingness to innovate.

What the school offers its staff

  • Opportunities across our MAT to enhance skills and experience at both primary and secondary level
  • Excellent career development opportunities
  • Exceptional CPD provision including working with national and international experts in their field

  • a supportive working environment and team ethos
  • friendly, enthusiastic children.
  • Employee Assistance scheme
  • Salary sacrifice schemes

Further details about the role

Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust is an established Multi-Academy Trust of primary and secondary academies across the West Midlands.

Our reputation is built on our core values of innovation, collaboration and inspiring individuals within our care.

We want every single person that comes through the doors of one of our academies to leave having grown as an individual, in terms of their skill set and their respect for others.

We believe that every person who passes through our doors deserves the very best that we can offer. Everyone who works with and for the Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust does so because they believe in children and want their futures to be happy and successful.

Shireland CBSO Academy opened in September 2023 and currently has students in Years 7, 8 and 12, with the academy growing year-on-year. We are now in the exciting position to be able to recruit the Academy’s first Head of Mathematics. The successful candidate will work with the Trust Director of Mathematics to shape our curriculum, ensuring exceptional teaching and learning both now and for years to come.

This is a rare opportunity to develop a department from its beginning, building a curriculum and team to engage students in the subject and achieve exceptional outcomes in examinations. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a passion for the subject and be creative, driven and rigorous in their approach, with a proven track record of working well as part of a team.

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 Shireland CBSO Academy

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
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School size
146 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19

Arranging a visit to Shireland CBSO Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email madams@shirelandcat.net.

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