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Head of Modern Foreign Languages

Swanshurst School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 0TW

This job expired on 6 March 2020 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2020

• Closing date

  6 March 2020 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 February 2020

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: French, Spanish, German
• Working pattern: Full time
• Full-time equivalent salary: Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £24,373 to £40,490
• Additional allowances:

  MPS/UPS plus TLR1c (£9,930 per annum)

Head of Modern Foreign Languages job summary

Job Title: Head of Modern Foreign Languages
TLR 1c (£9,930 per annum)

Subject
Accountability for leading, managing and developing a subject or curriculum area or pupil development across the curriculum
• Define and agree team improvement plan that will fulfil school improvement priorities
• Lead, monitor, evaluate and report on the impact of improvement strategies on the quality of teaching and learning and students’ achievement and use this analysis to guide further improvement
• Ensure self and team are up to date and respond to local / national issues and agenda in relation to subject area and professional role
• Identify and coordinate CPD needs and opportunities
• Account for achievement, attainment and welfare of all students within your subject/ year
• Provide headteacher with relevant subject, curriculum area or student performance information
• Monitor the learning climate across the team and implement strategies where needs are identified
• Analyse and interpret relevant national, local and school data, plus research and inspection evidence, to inform policies, practices, expectations, targets and teaching methods
• Be responsible for enrichment in relation to the curriculum area

Accountability for impact on educational progress beyond assigned students
• Identify appropriate attainment and/ or achievement targets
• Use data effectively to identify students who are underachieving and, where necessary, create and implement effective plans of action to support those students
• Monitor student standards and achievement against annual targets and across different groups of students
• Plan and implement strategies where improvement needs are identified with individuals and groups of students
• Ensure curriculum coverage, continuity and progression in the subject for all students, including those of high ability and those with special educational or linguistic needs
• Monitor standards of student behaviour and application and make appropriate interventions
• Lead evaluation strategies to contribute to overall school self-evaluation
• Ensure that relevant attainment/ achievement targets are met

Accountability for leading, developing and enhancing the teaching practices of others
• Contribute to the Teaching and Learning strategy of the school and share good practice from the team with the wider school community
• Maintain personal expertise and share this with other teachers
• Act as a role model of good classroom practice for other teachers, modelling effective strategies with them
• Monitor and evaluate standards of teaching, identifying areas for improvement
• Evaluate teaching role in the school, use this analysis to identify effective practice and areas for improvement and take action to improve further the quality of teaching and learning
• Induct, support and monitor new staff
• Act as performance management team leader for identified colleagues
• Engaging parents / carers in students’ learning
• Establish and implement clear policies and practices for assessing, recording and reporting on students’ achievement and for using this information to recognise achievement and to assist students in setting targets for further improvement
• Create a climate which enables other staff to develop and maintain positive attitudes towards the subject / role and to have confidence in teaching it
• Help staff to achieve constructive working relationships with students

Line management responsibility for a significant number of people
• Ensure that performance management arrangements are effectively discharged by other team leaders in the subject
• Monitor the effectiveness and impact of performance management arrangements within a team
• Monitor and evaluate the contribution and impact of other staff on school improvement across teams
• Provide quality assurance monitoring and intervention as agreed
• Identify professional development needs and co-ordinate these with those responsible for CPD in the school
• Plan the deployment of staff expertise to achieve school improvement targets
• Take initial responsibility for the pastoral care and welfare of a significant number of people
Line Management - Responsibility to and for:

As appropriate,
To: Deputy Head

For: Departmental: Teaching Staff
Departmental: Deputy / Assistant Leader
Departmental: Support Staff

Conditions of Employment
The above responsibilities are in accordance with the Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Act and subsequent orders in terms of duties and working time, also any local agreements, LEA Circulars and guidelines giving interpretations of teachers’ conditions and service.

Review and Amendment
The job description is normally subject to annual review. It may be amended at the request of the Headteacher or the post holder but only after full consultation with the post holder. It will be signed if agreement is reached.

Complaints
If, following review and amendment, agreement is not reached the appropriate procedures should be used for settling any disputes.

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 Swanshurst School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1866 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Swanshurst School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: emma.bastock@swans.bham.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/swanshurst-school (opens in new tab)

Swanshurst is an ‘Outstanding School’ for girls with over 1900 students on roll, aged 11-19 years. We offer excellent support and CPD for staff at all stages of their careers, including the full range of leadership NPQs.
Ofsted (2017) found pupils at Swanshurst to be “happy, well cared for and that they secure excellent academic and personal outcomes” they described the girls as “polite, respectful and courteous”. Needles to say, we are incredibly proud of them and of all our staff who contribute to the “purposeful learning culture within the school that characterises the work of staff and pupils”

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