Mathematics Faculty Leader (Temporary, Maternity Cover)
St Birinus School, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 8AZThis job expired on 7 June 2023
Start date details
September 2023
Closing date
7 June 2023 at 9am
Date listed
19 May 2023
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
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time, Temporary (Maternity Cover)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS scale point
Additional allowances
TLR1B (£10,710)
What skills and experience we're looking for
As Faculty Leader, and you will be the key driver in
improvement in teaching, learning and outcomes in Mathematics. You will be ambitious, and this
role will embrace appropriate whole-school responsibilities on your journey to
senior leadership.
We wish to appoint an emerging leader who
- Will quickly become an outstanding leader of our Mathematics Faculty
- Has experience of success in raising achievement
- Has the vision and ability to create and lead an outstanding Faculty
- Has the personal qualities to inspire, motivate, support and challenge others
Your vision
- You will have a relentless focus on standards and a deeply-held belief that all students can succeed, given the right opportunity and support
- You operate with a positive mindset and have clear, step-by-step strategies for progressing an inspirational Faculty
You will
- Be an outstanding classroom teacher, who is energetic, determined and enthusiastic
- Be a creative and strategic thinker, who is able to inspire and motivate students and staff to give and achieve their best
- Be a team player with good communication and interpersonal skills
- Be committed to the removal of barriers to enable every individual to achieve; you firmly believe that every student can achieve, given the right conditions for teaching and learning
- Be able to analyse and track data, oversee and measure impact, and have an emerging track record of raising standards
- Have the ambition and ability to become an Assistant Headteacher within the next two years
Job Purpose
- Raise, and be accountable for, standards of attainment and achievement within the Faculty and to monitor and support student progress
- Develop and enhance teaching practice of others
- Ensure provision of a suitable, broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum for students within the Faculty
- Be accountable for leading, managing and developing the Faculty
- effectively manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and resources within the Faculty
What the school offers its staff
Benefits of working with us:
- Loan of laptop and mouse for all teaching staff
- Employee centred and family friendly policies and practises
- Opportunity for flexible working arrangements to support with work life balance (wherever possible)
- Comfortable staffrooms with tea, coffee and workspaces
- Cycle to work scheme and sheltered secure bicycle sheds
St Birinus School is a Family Friendly School, committed to supporting our staff so that they can carve out a professional and personal life that is fulfilling and balanced.
Our RET Staff Charter summarises the commitment we make to all staff who join and work at Ridgeway Education Trust.
We are committed to expressing our values of high quality learning, respectful relationships and an inclusive environment in the day to day experience of staff and students throughout the school.
St Birinus School is an equal opportunities employer.
Commitment to safeguarding
Ridgeway Education Trust is committed to safeguarding, equality and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff working in its schools to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory enhanced DBS, references and pre-employment safeguarding checks. All Leadership roles require a Section 128 check. Possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining a post. All cases are considered confidentially according to the nature of role and information disclosed.
Our Safeguarding policy: http://www.st-birinus-school.org.uk/1852/sbs-policies. You will be required to bring your original degree certificate, proof of residence and photographic ID, to interview.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Birinus School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1166 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Birinus School website
- Email address
- vacancy@st-birinus.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01235 814444
All Boys' Comprehensive Secondary School, part of the Ridgeway Education Trust
Arranging a visit to St Birinus School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancy@st-birinus.oxon.sch.uk.
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