Innovation Leader of Mathematics
Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich, London, SE22 0AT13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £61,719-£67,253
Pay scale
- L3-L7 (Inner 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
Transform learning experiences for our vibrant student body. We are looking for a qualified teacher with subject leadership experience to join Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich as Innovation Leader of Mathematics. Joining a dedicated team of staff, you will contribute to leading outstanding teaching and learning.
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 Boys' Academy East Dulwich opened in September 2009 and is part of the Outstanding Harris Federation. 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.
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, 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, 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
- To promote this practice with the educational community, across the academy, the Harris Federation, and nationally through published articles, workshops and conferences including the Leadership and Innovation hub for London.
- 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 Coaching for Improved Teaching Programme (CITP)
- To participate in formal procedures where required to do so by the Principal
- To lead on specific strategies for personalising learning across the academy that have a high impact on increasing student and performance
- To use data analysis skills to identify and organise first class intervention strategies that ensure students maximise their potential
- To recognise and fully utilise the power of new technologies within and across subject areas to innovate where required
- To be an expert coach, using this skill successfully to develop our teaching staff to achieve their full potential.
- 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
- 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
- To lead 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
- To 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 Boys' Academy East Dulwich
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 877 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisdulwichboys.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0208 299 5300
Harris Boys’ Academy East Dulwich opened in September 2009 and is judged Outstanding by Ofsted. 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. The academy’s specialisms are Enterprise and Sport with a ‘can-do’ ethos of always improving upon your personal best. We have now reached our full capacity of 750 students across Years 7 to 11 and we work in partnership with Harris Federation Post 16. In 2017, we achieved a Progress 8 score of +0.73, which places us in the top 6% of schools nationally.
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