Second in Department - English
Robert Bloomfield Academy, Shefford, Bedfordshire, SG17 5BUThis job expired on 11 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
11 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
27 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- ECT / MPS / UPS + TLR 2A
Second in Department - English job summary
Purpose of Role
To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.
To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher and Tutor.
To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential across the department.
To contribute to raising standards of student attainment across the department.
To share and support the academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for spiritual, personal and academic growth.
To plan for the future development of the department
To help secure nationally comparative outcomes in standardised assessments and reading
Main Responsibilities
To develop resources, schemes of learning, assessment policies and teaching strategies with the Head of English and Director of Literacy.
To co-create the departmental improvement plans and the oversee implementation of these plans.
To plan and prepare courses and lessons.
To use data on pupil performance to inform target setting, lesson planning and to identify underachieving pupils across the department.
To support the BEST and academy’s monitoring procedures.
To support the review of teaching strategies and programmes of work.
To attend all department, head of departments and staff meetings.
Co-ordinating and managing work as a form tutor.
Contribute to the review, development and management of curriculum and assessment functions, including the Academy Improvement Plan and working towards individual academy and BEST aims. Improve and monitor the effectiveness of the BEST and academy’s assessment policy.
Ensure all pupil data is held centrally and is used effectively.
Provide the data team and other staff with relevant information about teaching and tutor groups, to help their planning and ensure all staff have high expectations of pupils.
Review teaching methods and programmes of work including schemes of learning.
Participate in arrangements for training and continuing professional development.
Contribute to the review, development and management of curriculum and assessment functions, including the School Improvement Plan and working towards individual academy and BEST aims.
Ensure the role of the form tutor is carried out, as stated within the staff handbook.
Specific Duties
To undertake a designated programme of teaching.
To lead and manage a team of teachers within the English department.
To provide leadership and management of the English curriculum across all Key Stages with the Head of English and Director of Literacy.
To ensure a high-quality learning experience for all students that will stimulate learning appropriate to student needs.
Monitoring the objectives and tasks identified within the School Improvement Plan and the BEST improvement plan.
Liaising with colleagues in lower, middle and upper schools to ensure a smooth transfer of information.
To assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of pupils and to keep such records as are required.
Write reports and providing data for parents to inform them about pupils’ progress.
To provide, or contribute to, oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students and groups of students.
Interpreting comparative data regarding pupil performance, and using this to differentiate and assess.
Take responsibility for professional development, keeping abreast of subject developments and reviews, locally and nationally.
To prepare and update subject materials.
Contribute to the whole-academy and BEST ethos, with due regard to wider professional effectiveness.
Please note, while every effort has been made to explain the duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified.
Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from the line manager/Principal to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.
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 Robert Bloomfield Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 9 to 13
- Education phase
- Middle
- School size
- 985 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 13
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Robert Bloomfield Academy website (opens in new tab)
WELCOME TO ROBERT BLOOMFIELD ACADEMY
Situated in the heart of the Shefford community, pupils, parents and staff are incredibly proud of their school and reap huge rewards academically and pastorally over their four year journey with us. No stone is left unturned in the pursuit to maintain our outstanding school vision and you will find that the curriculum and opportunities presented to the pupils at Robert Bloomfield is above and beyond that of any other school.
We have a superb learning environment, enhanced by specialist facilities across numerous subjects, which enable us to offer a full range of opportunities in and beyond the classroom. We have recently opened a specialist Year 5 block of classrooms and a brand new, state of the art Learning Resource Centre. In 2009 we were designated a specialist Science, Maths and Technology school under the banner of Engineering, which complimented the already existing specialism of Modern Languages. Our Ofsted Inspection Report in 2014 graded the school as ‘Outstanding’ in all categories. In 2012 our school became a Teaching School, one of the first 200 in the country.
Above all, we are a caring community that values each child and provides them with the opportunity to fulfill their potential and enjoy learning. We believe in building a child’s confidence, adaptability and resilience for the future within an ordered and structured environment, where high expectations are a habit.
Mr Sam Farmer,
Principal
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