KS2 Phase Leader to join Leadership Team & lead English
Grove Primary School, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 2LUThis job expired on 17 June 2019
Job start date
1 September 2019
Closing date
17 June 2019 at 1am
Date listed
3 June 2019
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 5 to Upper pay range 3, £31,810,.00 to £39,405,.00
Additional allowances
TLR and additional half day of leadership release each fortnight.
KS2 Phase Leader to join Leadership Team & lead English job summary
General duties
Fulfill the line manager role, providing an approachable figure for staff, while also challenging the team to continually improve.
Lead by setting an example through achieving your own high standards of classroom practice.
Provide vision, leadership and day-to-day operational management of colleagues within the school and nursery.
Secure high quality teaching and effective use of resources to achieve the highest standards of achievement for all pupils.
Support and monitor the quality of teaching and learning within the school and nursery working towards collectively raising standards of teaching, learning, engagement and attainment.
Use data effectively to identify pupils who are underachieving and implement support for such pupils.
Support the continued development and implementation of the school’s aims, vision and ethos.
Curriculum
Ensure the provision of an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated English curriculum for pupils, in accordance with the aims of the school and its policies.
Adopt a clear long term, and short term, vision for the role of English across the curriculum.
Take responsibility for the development and delivery of whole school English curriculum.
Develop appropriate and effective schemes of work, learning resources, subject policy and classroom practice for English.
Ensure schemes of work offer appropriate challenges, demonstrate good progress and evaluate the impact on teaching and learning.
Keep up-to-date with developments in the curriculum and ensure that these are reflected in teaching practices.
Review and refine schedules, schemes of work and National Curriculum to ensure that they meet the needs of pupils of all ages and abilities.
Ensure ongoing development and evaluation of appropriate specifications and schemes of work, whilst making sure that these are adhered to by all teachers.
Ensure the requirements of the national curriculum.
Provide guidance and assist staff with their planning and delivery of units of work in English.
Ensure that all lessons are objective-led in order to promote good pupil progress.
Promote parental interest, understanding and engagement in English.
Assessment
Regularly evaluate the quality of teaching and use this analysis to identify effective practice and areas for improvement.
Oversee effective assessment, recording and reporting of pupil progress.
Keep abreast of and implement current assessment policies and procedures in English.
Monitor pupils’ recorded work and moderate teacher assessment to ensure the highest standards.
Analyse and interpret performance data to effectively set targets for improvement in English throughout the school.
Monitor and evaluate standards of attainment through collection, analysis and reporting of performance data.
Evaluate the quality of teaching and standards of achievement/attainment for pupils in English, and set targets for quality controlled improvement.
Staff management and development
Provide advice and support to staff in relation to the curriculum, discipline, classroom practice and professional development.
Provide advice and support to staff, with regards to the implementation of whole school cross curricular writing.
Intervene where teaching is less than good and support teachers in making rapid and sustained improvements.
Keep the school staff up-to-date with developments in the English curriculum and teaching and learning methodologies.
Create a team atmosphere and build effective working relationships with staff.
Attend and lead staff meetings.
Have an active involvement in staff team building exercises.
Report to the headteacher on a monthly basis.
Attend appropriate conferences and training courses.
Lead professional development in English by providing school based INSET courses.
Operational
Produce an annual subject development plan for the English department and for the development of whole school literacy.
Manage the subject budget and any additional finance, keeping proper financial controls, records and inventories.
Contribute to school evaluation processes and keep the work of the department under review.
Ensure that homework is set and marked in line school procedures.
Evaluate, requisition, maintain, control and develop appropriate resources, materials and equipment for the teaching of English within the confines of the school budget.
Ensure the fair distribution of resources within the school.
Ensure that teaching and learning strategies are consistently applied to ensure that the needs of all pupils are met.
Additional duties
Manage the behaviour of pupils effectively in order to create a good and safe learning environment.
Work with parents through home/school correspondence, phone calls and meetings to ensure pupil wellbeing and academic success.
Ensure health and safety procedures are followed within the department, including the completion of risk assessments.
Participate in open evenings, parents’ meetings, events with community partners and other liaison opportunities.
Identify and purchase additional resources/materials, following the correct administrative process.
Ensure English specific displays throughout the school are current and of the highest quality.
Advise the headteacher and governing body of priorities for improvement within the English department and with regards to relevant school expenditure.
Undertake any other agreed responsibilities.
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.
About Grove Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 151 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Grove Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- office@groveprimary.worcs.sch.uk
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