Maths KS4 Coordinator

Dean Trust Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire, M13 0LF

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  26 January 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 32,916.00 - 51,048.00

Maths KS4 Coordinator job summary

The Dean Trust is seeking to appoint a talented and enthusiastic Teacher of Maths to join our dedicated team at Dean Trust Ardwick as KS4 Maths Coordinator.

The core purpose of the role will be to to teach Maths to the full age and ability range, and support the Head of Faculty in assuming overall responsibility for leading the curriculum, planning, teaching, learning and assessment of Maths across Key Stage 4.

Key responsibilities:

Leadership and Management

• To articulate the school’s core purpose, vision and values and ensure that they are understood, shared and acted upon by all Maths teachers.  
• Contribute to achieving the school’s vision by supporting the Head of Faculty’s effective leadership of the Maths faculty.  
• Clearly communicating with the faculty around expectations of planning, curriculum implementation, and assessment
• Coordinate curriculum teachers by ensuring that timely and robust communication outlines expectations of staff delivering and resourcing the curriculum 
• To be responsible for conducting the annual performance management of members of the Maths Faculty in line with the Trust policy.

School Culture

• Model and uphold the school’s approach to securing a strong behaviour culture, supporting the Head of Faculty in promoting high expectations, mutual respect, and professionalism within the Key Stage.
• Promote a calm and focused learning environment by ensuring consistent routines, clear expectations and strong relationships between staff and pupils.
• Reinforce the importance of routines, rules and shared expectations in line with faculty and whole-school policies, supporting colleagues to apply these consistently.
• Promote and support positive, respectful relationships across the school community.

Teaching and Learning

• Overseeing the development of a Key Stage by: 
• Providing clear and detailed introductions to the core content, MTPs, potential misconceptions or areas of high challenge, and resourcing for units across the Key Stage ensuring that staff feel confident to deliver the curriculum as intended. 
• Ensuring that MTPs are robust and detailed, reflecting the overarching curriculum intent and effectively articulating how pupils progress throughout the unit
• Setting high standards and modelling planning expectations by taking the lead on creating shared resources for this Key Stage 
• When necessary, delegating planning of resources thoughtfully, using this to develop both the quality of the curriculum resourcing and staff professional development
• Ensuring the robust coordination of shared resource planning, including ensuring that fair and equitable deadlines are met 
• Ensuring that all curriculum resources for the Key Stage align with the DTA House Style and shared subject specific pedagogies 
• Ensuring that all shared resources are quality assured to provide staff with a high-quality starting point for the adaptation of delivery to meet the needs of all pupils 
• Developing an impactful programme of curriculum enrichment which contributes to pupils’ personal development including CEIAG.

Staff Development

• Contributing to Faculty quality assurance and development by: 
• Conducting drop-ins to monitor the consistency of curriculum delivery at KS3, providing robust individual feedback and aligning professional development opportunities in the faculty with emerging delivery priorities 
• Ensure that the delivery of the curriculum and resources are adapted meaningfully by all classroom teachers to support the success of all pupils, delivering the same curriculum content in a way that enables all pupils to succeed  
• Supporting teacher development by modelling the delivery of key elements of the KS3 curriculum

Assessment and Progress Tracking

• Continuously develop and review feedback protocols and develop staff to: 
• ensure that staff are effectively conducting whole class feedback,
• ensure staff have a clear understanding of the gaps and misconceptions within their classes
• review the effectiveness of teaching the core content to adapt and refine the delivery of the curriculum  
• Monitoring and assessing the impact of homework completion

For more information about the role please contact us on 01619722988 or email emmahurworth@deantrustardwick.co.uk.

Thank you again for your interest in working for The Dean Trust. We look forward to hearing from you.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates including those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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

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About Dean Trust Ardwick

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1339 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dean Trust Ardwick website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dean-trust-ardwick

Dean Trust Ardwick opened in 2015 and are now a fully-fledged Year 7-11 school, serving over 1200 pupils, in the heart of the Ardwick and Longsight community. We pride ourselves on being a local school for local children, and since inception we have become the school of choice for families.

We exist to empower our pupils to find their purpose and thrive as citizens of the world. We provide a knowledge-rich curriculum which exposes pupils to powerful knowledge, places them on an ambitious pathway and develops the character traits needed to seize the opportunities that exist. Through finding their passions we enable pupils to make a positive difference to the world. Our core purpose is not merely finite ‘success’ for our pupils but for them to thrive - continually grow and flourish.

We are explicit about the culture we want to create and have clear ideas of the desired behaviours necessary for our pupils to succeed. At Dean Trust Ardwick, we maintain a relentless focus on the day-to-day actions, behaviours and routines within the school and adopt a disciplined approach to teaching pupils the right and successful ways to do things.

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