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Innovation Leader: English

Harris Garrard Academy, Erith, Kent, DA18 4DW

This job expired on 8 December 2022 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  January or Easter

• Closing date

  8 December 2022 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  29 November 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of year or phase
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: English
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
  • Directed
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Leadership Scale 1-5 (Outer London)
• Additional allowances:

  Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (TPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a qualified teacher with subject leadership experience to join Harris Garrard Academy as Innovation Leader of English.

The successful candidate will:

• Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree, and, ideally, management training
• Have a minimum of three years' teaching experience, of which two should be at leadership level.
• Show proven success in raising achievement across at least two key stages.
• Show evidence of leading, supporting and managing others, both individuals and teams, ensuring high quality performance.
• Have a high level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement, including the use of interactive white boards.
• Have recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development.
• Have experience of presenting to a wide audience
• Understand how whole academy strategies can be used across the curriculum to raise standards.
• Have successful experience of embedding cross curricular subjects.
• Have experience of embedding innovative strategies for Assessment for Learning and Learning to Learn in a whole school situation.
• Have of using coaching as a model for ensuring ongoing professional development, particularly with subject leaders
• Show evidence of continuous self-development and updated knowledge in the fields of teaching and learning and education management, particularly in the areas of responsibility for this post.
• Ideally, have experience in multi-ethnic urban schools and of presenting in local and/or national education forums.

What the school offers its staff

Harris Garrard Academy is a new school with drive and ambition. Located in the wider South Thamesmead area, we cater to a vastly vibrant 3-19 aged student community. Accessible by fantastic rail and bus transport links and very soon to be on the opening leg of the Elizabeth Line, the academy's stunning working environment is within a purpose-built school designed by Norman Foster and nominated for the Stirling Prize for architecture in 2004.

We also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, electric car scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.

Further details about the role

The main responsibilities of your role will be:

• To lead improvement in teaching and learning across the academy, including the implementation of innovative “next” practice in literacy for learning.
• Promoting this practice with the educational community, across the academy, the Harris Federation, and nationally.
• To ensure best teaching practice is systematically shared across the academy
• To lead the Teaching and Learning Development team and coordinate meetings
• To lead and coordinate staff CPD training through the CITP group
• To lead on developing and embedding the academy marking policy
• To support in the process of mentoring NQTs and teach first where required to do so by the relevant AP
• To lead on the academy CITP
• To participate in formal procedures where required to do so
• To lead on specific strategies for personalising learning across the academy
• To use data analysis skills to identify and organise first class intervention strategies
• To recognise and fully utilise the power of new technologies within and across subject areas
• To be an expert coach
• To establish successful raising achievement plans and intervention programmes for year 11 and Post 16
• To establish a successful programme that ensures all groups of students meet their targets and gaps in progress are closed. This to include students on the G&T profile.
• To support coordinators and subject leaders in developing their self -evaluation and review.
• To work closely with the Student Learning Commission of the academy and promote achievements across the Federation and beyond.
• Leading staff and students on the development of faculty days that will be significant in raising achievement across the academy, by developing a greater range of teaching and learning opportunities and utilising “time” more creatively
• Provide inspiration and direction on new innovation projects that will invigorate curriculum delivery.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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About Harris Garrard Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 18
• Education phase: Through school
• School size: 1477 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Harris Garrard Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: info@harrisgarrard.org.uk
• Phone number: 0208 320 4800
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harris-garrard-academy (opens in new tab)

Harris Garrard Academy is an all-through 3–18 academy with approximately 1350 pupils on roll and joined the Harris Federation as a sponsored academy in September 2017. The academy is based in Thamesmead in a purpose built building. We are now on a journey towards “Outstanding”, led by highly experienced executive principals with proven track records of school transformation. Our vision is clear: nothing is impossible and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. We believe we are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. We support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that our students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond our academy.

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