Head of MFL
Birches Head Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 8DDThis job expired on 8 April 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
8 April 2024 at 9am
Date listed
14 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Spanish
Working pattern
- Full time: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 3.20pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30000 - £46525 + TLR2B £5529
Pay scale
- M1 - UPS 3 + TLR2B
Additional allowances
TLR2B - £5529
What skills and experience we're looking for
Leading, developing and enhancing the teaching practice of others:
• Maintain personal teaching expertise to a high standard and share expertise
with others
• Act as role model of good classroom practice for other teachers, modelling
effective strategies with them
• Plan and implement strategies to improve teaching, identifying areas for
improvement
Working with relevant managers and teachers:
- Identify appropriate attainment and achievement targets
- Monitor and evaluate student standards and achievement against annual
targets and over time
- Monitor planning, curriculum coverage and learning outcomes
- Monitor standards of student behaviour and application of school policies and
strategies
- Lead evaluation strategies to contribute to overall school self-evaluation
- Ensure that relevant attainment and achievement targets are met
- Define intervention strategies to address issues for development that are
identified
- Evaluate and report on the effectiveness of intervention strategies used to
address identified issues
- Identify quantifiable and challenging student progress objectives managers and
teachers their performance management objectives
- Support teachers in planning appropriate strategies to achieve student progress
against target levels and objectives
- Ensure that agreed student progress target levels within the subject area are
achieved or exceeded
- Monitor the objectives and targets for all students including those with SEN, EAL
and promote the importance of raising their achievement
What the school offers its staff
Birches Head Academy is part of the Frank Field Education Trust and we work collaboratively with others in our FFET family, allowing our students and staff many opportunities to develop. This is embodied in the FFET vision: ‘Social Justice through Excellence in Education’ and in the Academy motto: ‘Aspire to be More’.
Birches Head Academy is looking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced Head of MFL (Modern Foreign Languages) who will play a vital role in helping us to ensure our students receive a world-class education, thereby enabling each child to reach their full potential.
The Head of MFL will be an exemplar of implementation and aspiration in the classroom, who will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team and colleagues throughout the department, to drive continuing improvement in students’ progress, as well as the quality of Teaching and Learning within the MFL department.
The successful candidate should be an outstanding practitioner who is looking for the next step in their career, experienced in teaching both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.You should have a proven track record of successful outcomes and delivering on your plans.
An innovative teacher, you should be passionate about Teaching and Learning and developing pedagogical approaches that inspire learners. The ability to be a highly successful team player in a very busy and fast-paced environment is essential. You will have the capacity and energy to drive improvement, to lead by example and to develop collaboration within the department.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to demonstrate their ability to champion the Academy’s development and to be part of our exciting journey.
We welcome applications from all parts of our community as we aspire to have a staff body that matches the social and cultural diversity of our student intake.
Closing date for applications: Monday 8th April 2024, 9.30am
Interviews to be held either: Wednesday 10th / Thursday 11th / Friday 12th April 2024.
For further information, including the recruitment pack and application form, please visit our website at:https://www.ffet.co.uk/join-our-team. Alternatively, you can contact the school for an information pack.
Completed application forms should be emailed tojbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk
Birches Head Academy requires an application form to be completed in order to be considered for this role. Please note that CVs alone will not be accepted.
Birches Head Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants will, therefore, be subject to stringent vetting and induction processes, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.R eferences will be requested prior to interview.
All applicants will be considered on the basis of suitability for the post regardless of age, sex, race or disability.
Further details about the role
Monitor and evaluate the planning of other teachers, providing
constructive feedback on a regular basis
• Disseminate examples of effective planning practice
• Ensure that teachers aware of the needs of inclusion of all students
and groups and make provision for this in their planning
• Ensure that feedback from observations, scrutinies and analysis of
data is appropriately reflected in teachers planning
• Ensure teachers are clear about the teaching of learning objectives,
outcomes, understand sequence of teaching and learning in the
subject and communicate this to students
• Observe colleagues and provide evaluative feedback of effectiveness
Accountability for leading, managing and developing the
subject:
• Identify relevant school improvement issues
• Define and agree appropriate improvement targets
• Co-ordinate CPD needs and opportunities
• Evaluate impact of all improvement activities on the quality of
learning and teaching
• Provide the Principal with relevant performance information
Line Management responsibility:
• Ensure performance management arrangements are effectively
discharged
• Monitor and evaluate contribution and impact of other staff to
school improvement in relation to subject
• Plan the deployment of staff expertise to achieve school and subject
improvement objectives
• Take responsibility for pastoral care of team
• Manage departmental budget effectively
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 Birches Head Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1045 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Birches Head Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01782233595
Arranging a visit to Birches Head Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk.
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