Leadership Scale (L5 – L9)
Colne Park High School, Colne, Lancashire, BB8 7DPThis job expired on 14 December 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
15 April 2024
Closing date
14 December 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
30 November 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- Business studies, ICT
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale (L5 – L9)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Selection Criteria
Qualifications
- A good honours degree in Business/ICT or related subject
- Qualified teacher status
- Successful experience teaching Business/ICT
- Evidence of further professional development
- Excellent Teacher or SLE Teacher
- Additional post-graduate qualification
Knowledge &
Understanding
- Pedagogy and the process of teaching & learning
- Can accurately judge quality of teaching and learning in lessons and give constructive feedback
- High level of competency in analysing and evaluating student progress data
- Thorough understanding of strategies required to ensure all student groups make good progress
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Experience of Inclusion
Curriculum development
Skills &
Experience
- Positive middle leadership experience in a secondary school
- Evidence of outstanding teaching & student progress
- Evidence of exercising excellent judgement in pressured situations
- Have teaching skills that lead to excellent outcomes
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to form strong relationships with all stakeholder groups
- Ability to raise aspirations of staff and students and inspire them to work towards shared goals
- Ability to appraise, evaluate & advise colleagues on their work and outcomes
- Determination and resilience to initiate and drive through new developments to raise student attainment
- Ability to think and act strategically
- Ability to analyse, problem solve and prioritise
- Ability to self-evaluate
- Ability to self-organise and multi-task
- Ability to learn from experience
- Experience of working successfully in partnership with external agencies
- Experience of managing teaching teams to raise student attainment and demonstrate the impact
Qualities
- Ability to collaborate effectively as part of a team
- Capacity for and interest in further promotion
- Absolute commitment to the safety and welfare of all people
- Ambition to learn in post and aspire to become an inspirational leader
- Possession of an enthusiastic and “can-do” disposition
- Willingness and ability to attend meetings/events outside normal school day
- Good attendance record
What the school offers its staff
About Park High School
Park High School is a vibrant, successful 11-16 school situated in the heart of the town of Colne. Over the years we have become the school of choice for our community. We are consistently oversubscribed and as a founding member of the Pennine Trust, we have built strong partnerships with our local schools. We are outward facing in our teaching and learning and innovative in offering a wide range of professional opportunities for our staff.
As a result of being oversubscribed, we are embarking on the next wave of recruitment for the highest calibre of staff who can help us make sure no one is left behind.
So why work at Park High School?
Teaching and Learning
At Park High School we believe in life long learning; learning that is an enjoyable experience for all. Quality first teaching is at the core of everything we do. Every student is entitled to experience a variety of teaching and learning styles which enable them to achieve their full potential and be the best they can be. We aim, through successful teaching and learning underpinned by researching practice, to develop the whole child and to enable our students to become life long learners.
Leaders consistently evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning within their departments and seek opportunities for regular developmental feedback and training, which creates the strong, supportive and vibrant culture at Park High School.
Expectations
There is a firm and fair approach to behaviour, underpinned by an ethos of positive relationships. Students and staff in the Park family strive to be the best they can be. Teachers pass on a love of their subject and prioritise the planning and teaching of their lessons. School leaders are also life long learners.
Further details about the role
Areas of Responsibility and Accountability
Strategic direction and development of teaching and learning Quality of teaching and learning.
Leading and managing teaching and learning improvements
General Requirements
Leadership of Teaching and Learning
- To contribute to developing a vision for teaching and learning incorporating high expectations, and to lead teaching staff to achieve that vision.
- To motivate, challenge and inspire teaching staff to develop the very best teaching practice to raise pupil attainment.
- To lead teachers in creating an excellent climate for learning, which supports the development of knowledge, understanding and skills.
- To lead the development and implementation of teaching and learning strategies for raising attainment in line with school strategies and in line with clearly identified needs.
- To contribute to the leadership of the school by participating in and initiating whole school developments.
Quality Assurance
- Work with Curriculum Leaders to establish common standards of practice and develop the effectiveness of teaching and learning throughout the school in line with school policy, in order to ensure all pupils can achieve.
- To regularly monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning through analysis of assessment and examination data, lesson observation, pupil focus groups and sampling the planning and assessment of class work and homework, in order to encourage continuous improvement in line with school policy.
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 Colne Park High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1055 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Colne Park High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- avickery@parkhigh.penninetrust.org
- Phone number
- 01282865200
Why choose Park High School?
• Park High School is an ambitious, happy, and vibrant place to work with a family of supporting colleagues who are committed to promoting a warm and friendly atmosphere.
• A strong team of staff who work together with a common goal.
• Quality First teaching is at the core of everything we do.
• Every student is entitled to experience a variety of teaching and learning styles which enable them to achieve their full potential and be the best they can be.
The Pennine Trust
The Pennine Trust is a vibrant, cross phase multi academy trust which was jointly established by three primary schools and one secondary school in 2018. We are committed to high quality professional development and a strong commitment and approach to the development of people at all levels of the organisation. Working at the Pennine Trust offers:
• A strong culture driven by values
• A supportive Central Trust Team who believe that through strong collaboration, all children within our trust will have better outcomes
• High quality professional development opportunities
• A commitment to providing every child with the best possible start in life
• Exceptional curriculum and pedagogy in all our schools
• High quality pastoral care and support
The right candidate will be totally aligned with our values, embrace our behaviours and play a full part in fulfilling our mission: Creating Opportunity, Inspiring Excellence, Shaping Tomorrow.
Arranging a visit to Colne Park High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email avickery@parkhigh.penninetrust.org.
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