Deadline is tomorrow

  • Job start date

    1 January 2025

  • Closing date

    7 October 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    16 September 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

Languages

Working pattern

Full time: 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£32,850 - £48,050

Additional allowances

TLR2B - £5,586

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Role

 The Head of Department is responsible for providing vision and strategic leadership to ensure that all areas are managed effectively to the highest educational standards at National, local and school levels.

About Trumpington Community College

Our mission is to bring out ‘the best in everyone’.   Our most important purpose is to teach young people things they would not learn outside school which empower them.  We believe that ‘Knowledge Is Power’. We believe in teaching through explicit/direct instruction (Rosenshine and Engelmann) and utilising TLAC 3.0 techniques.  We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. 

We also believe in ‘Education with Character’ – we want young people to look back on a schooling that has inspired and challenged them, given them wide opportunity and prepared them for the ups and downs of life. We believe that our school will provide an excellent education for all students.  We are looking for people that share this belief and passionately believe in doing what it takes to ensure that all children can achieve.

The Head of MFL will lead, motivate and inspire students, staff, parents and the wider community, to ensure every student achieves well.

We have ambitious plans for the future of Trumpington Community College and creating an academic ethos is at the centre of this.  We believe that our children deserve only the best quality staff and so we recruit carefully and invest in training to ensure continuous improvement and an excellent quality of education. 

About United Learning

We are part of a cluster of schools within the United Learning group: The Galfrid School, Coleridge Community College, Trumpington Community College, Parkside Community College, and Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology.

We embrace United Learning aim to offer a life changing education to children and young people, and we work as a team to achieve more than any single school could.

We share knowledge and resource within the cluster and the group to simplify work processes and manage workloads to achieve excellent results while improving work-life balance. As a cluster and as a group, we can look after our staff better.

There are many benefits to working as part of United Learning – we encourage staff to visit other academies, “steal with pride” and bring the best practice back to our own schools. 

Additional Information

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.

We reserve the right to invite strong candidates to interview in advance of the closing date, so encourage early applicants.

What the school offers its staff

More pay, more time, and more support. We offer the best pay in the sector, three extra INSET days for planning, guaranteed personal days, great training for your career, and more. Teach with United Learning for a more rewarding career. 

  • More Pay.... 

We pay an average of 5% above national scales – the best rates of pay in the sector 

Cash towards medical treatment 

Generous staff discount scheme

  • More time... 

Three extra INSET days for planning  

At least one personal day a year 

  • And more support 

Great training for your career  

Exceptional curriculum resources  

Expert subject advice  

Support for your wellbeing

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 Trumpington Community College

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
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School size
491 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16

School location

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