Lead Learner of Mathematics
Abbey College, Ramsey, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, PE26 1DG16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
11 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
23 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- L5 to L10
Lead Learner of Mathematics job summary
ABBEY COLLEGE – Mathematics Department – Details for Applicants
We are seeking to appoint an aspirant, professional and passionate individual to lead our Mathematics department. If you are an outstanding teacher and are already, or have the potential to be, an excellent leader, we welcome your application.
What will our successful candidate be like?
Our new Lead Learner of Mathematics will have a commitment to achieving excellent outcomes for students of all abilities and a strong interest in mathematical pedagogy. Our successful candidate will be able to both inspire and support every member of our team to inspire and support our students.
What type of leader will you be?
We require you to have considerable teaching experience, be able to articulate a clear educational vision and provide focused, strategic leadership. You will be an outstanding, reflective classroom practitioner, passionate and restless to achieve the best outcomes for children, and possess creativity, excellent interpersonal skills, and strong organisational abilities.
Our new leader will have the experience, or the potential, to manage the delivery of a coherent curriculum from KS3 to KS5 encompassing qualifications in Statistics and Further Mathematics as well as our core GCSE and A Level qualifications. You are encouraged to bring new ideas to the table, to help us use our centrally resourced curriculum to both scaffold and challenge as needed and will have the autonomy to take risks.
As a new leader at Abbey College, you will be fully involved in our highly experienced team of Middle Leaders who work together to translate whole school priorities into our subject areas. You will be supported by an SLT link as you develop your strategic vision.
Who are we?
The Mathematics Department is comprised of 10 staff. We are an innovative and creative team of practitioners who meet regularly to share good practice and explore different ways to teach key topics. We have spent the past year developing retrieval practice across the department to support our learners to more confidently recall key mathematical ideas over time. From September we will be moving into the third year of a five-year curriculum redesign process in collaboration with our partners in the Meridian Trust with a focus on embedding key representations, teaching for conceptual understanding and allowing students to develop increasingly complex mental schema over their journey through our curriculum.
We consistently achieve strong outcomes at Key Stage 4 and recruit well into KS5 study where we offer Core Maths alongside A Level Maths and Further Maths and achieve excellent outcomes with over half of our students achieving A or A* grades consistently from cohort to cohort.
Would you like to visit us?
We are not as far away as you think, and driving through the countryside each morning is a very pleasant way to start your day! You’ll find us just 20 minutes from Peterborough and Huntingdon, and commutable from Cambridge too. Why not come and visit us so we can show you more of our school?
What do I do if I want to know more before applying?
If you have any further questions in the meantime, please contact the Head of Math's, Elli Pinnock epinnock@abbey.college You will find more information on our website. We look forward to meeting you, and receiving your application
Working Hours: Mon-Fri: 08.30 -15.30
Hours per week: 32.5
Grade: L5 to L10
JOB DESCRIPTION – LEAD LEARNER OF MATHS
Responsible to: SLT link
Job purpose: To lead the curriculum team in providing high standards of teaching and a positive learning environment, leading to excellent student outcomes.
Responsible for: The academic achievement and wider experiences of students within the mathematics curriculum area.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities outlined in this job description are in addition to those covered by the latest School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document. It may be modified by the Headteacher, with your agreement, to reflect or anticipate changes in the job, commensurate with the salary and job title.
Together with the SLT Link
Establish clear expectations of student achievement and progress, through effective target setting and monitoring against national benchmark data.
Help to develop, communicate and implement a shared vision and identity within the Team.
Be involved in decision making and policy development across the school and implement decisions taken.
Create a Department development plan which draws from both whole school and department specific priorities and actively involves all subject teachers in its implementation
Ensure that the Department are well prepared for any internal or external review activities
Staff management
Act as a positive role model; demonstrating leadership in line with our school values of Humility, Intuition and Passion
Encourage, facilitate and focus the Team’s attention upon developing and maintaining a high standard of subject specific pedagogy and demonstrate this consistently in your own practice
Monitor and evaluate the practice across the Team to celebrate good practice, ensure consistency and maintain a culture of self reflection and ongoing professional development.
Keep the Team informed of curriculum and pedagogical developments, at a local and national level.
Maintain clear and positive expectations and routines with teachers within the Team.
Ensure that the Team has ownership and understanding of whole school and Team policies. Support subject teachers in matters of discipline and the maintenance of standards.
Together with the SLT Link
Establish clear expectations of student achievement and progress, through effective target setting and monitoring against national benchmark data.
Help to develop, communicate and implement a shared vision and identity within the Team. Be involved in decision making and policy development across the school and implement decisions taken.
Create a Department development plan which draws from both whole school and department specific priorities and actively involves all subject teachers in its implementation
Ensure that the Department are well prepared for any internal or external review activities
Staff management
Act as a positive role model; demonstrating leadership in line with our school values of Humility, Intuition and Passion
Encourage, facilitate and focus the Team’s attention upon developing and maintaining a high standard of subject specific pedagogy and demonstrate this consistently in your own practice
Monitor and evaluate the practice across the Team to celebrate good practice, ensure consistency and maintain a culture of self reflection and ongoing professional development.
Keep the Team informed of curriculum and pedagogical developments, at a local and national level.
Maintain clear and positive expectations and routines with teachers within the Team.
Ensure that the Team has ownership and understanding of whole school and Team policies. Support subject teachers in matters of discipline and the maintenance of standards.
Lead, as appropriate, Team meetings, professional development, assemblies, etc.
Contribute to the Appraisal/probation process for staff within the Team, in relation to their roles as a subject teachers
Ensure that the Team’s physical environment promotes and celebrates learning and achievement.
Student Progress
Ensure that students are appropriately taught and prepared for external exams across Key Stage 3, 4 and 5.
Monitor and evaluate the progress of students within the subject(s) against their potential using national or other relevant benchmark data.
In support of teachers, ensure that they have access to monitoring data affecting students’ progress eg attendance, behaviour, learning behaviours, SEND and can use this effectively to draw appropriate conclusions and develop their teaching practice.
Coordinate, promote and celebrate activities / events that encourage and recognise achievement and provide extracurricular enrichment and academic challenge beyond the curriculum.
Provide students with opportunities to feedback on developments and progress.
Plan and implement and monitor strategies to close basic numeracy gaps for learners in KS3
Develop a departmental implementation of OAP that will support all learners to make excellent progress
Communication with Parents
Oversee the reporting of progress and attainment to parents.
Support teachers to liaise effectively with parents about both academic and pastoral matters
Communicate with parents to inform them about curriculum, teaching and learning, intervention and enrichment
Curriculum leadership
Ensure that an appropriate, ambitious curriculum is delivered by the Faculty for all pupils.
Ensure that there is efficient and effective use of curriculum resources across the whole Team.
Advise on timetable needs, including accommodation, groupings and staffing
Ensure that there are consistent routines, expectations and policies across all subjects offered within the Team.
Work with TLR holders to ensure effective ongoing departmental leadership and monitoring of how the curriculum implementation is performing for all of our learners
Represent the Team’s suggestions to SLT and Governors.
The post holder will have a shared responsibility for the safeguarding of all children and young people. The post holder also has an implicit duty to promote the welfare of all children and young people.
Where the post holder has a budgetary responsibility, it is a requirement of the role to work within the school’s financial regulations. This will involve complete monthly monitoring reports and where necessary liaison with the Finance Team.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All staff will be subject to an enhanced check with the Criminal Records Bureau.
Wellbeing
Ensure all pupils have equal access to learning using appropriate strategies and resources, where necessary.
Liaise with pastoral staff members to ensure the wellbeing of pupils and their full participation in school life.
Raise any concerns regarding pupils’ behaviour with the relevant Raising Standards Lead.
Implement any specific arrangements for individual pupils, ensuring that relevant staff members are aware of the measures in place.
Provide individual pastoral support to pupils, where necessary.
Continuously motivate and challenge pupils, whilst promoting and reinforcing self-esteem.
Safeguarding
To have the ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
Appreciate the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual children and young people whatever their life circumstances.
To have a good understanding of the safeguarding agenda and can demonstrate an ability to contribute towards a safe environment.
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice and information in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
Variation Clause
This job description will be reviewed and updated periodically in order to ensure that it relates to the job performed or to incorporate any proposed changes. This procedure will be conducted by the Headteacher or line manager in consultation with the post-holder. In these circumstances it will be the aim to reach agreement on reasonable changes but if agreement is not possible management reserves the right to make changes to the job description following consultation.
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Abbey College, Ramsey
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1029 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Abbey College, Ramsey website
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