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Subject Leader DT - Resistant Materials

Lavington School, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 4EB

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• Job start date

  1 September 2024

• Closing date

  19 April 2024 at 3pm

• Date listed

  20 March 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Design and technology
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPR/UPR £30,000 to £46,525
• Additional allowances:

  TLR 2a - £3,214 per year

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Degree in appropriate subject
• Has qualified teacher status
• Experience of successfully applying a range of teaching strategies
• Demonstrable experience of supporting outstanding teaching and learning including adapting lesson content to support and ensure access for EAL and SEN pupils
• Proven ability to deal with a wide range of student behaviour
• A good or outstanding teacher in your subject
• Demonstrable ability to engage with learners in a variety of ways
• Demonstrable ability to move pupils’ learning forward
• Able to effectively evaluate own practice to further improve learning of pupils
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team, including across faculties
• Demonstrable knowledge of behaviour management

What the school offers its staff

• A competitive salary
• A full and varied CPD programme offering teaching and leadership development for our staff
• An opportunity to work in a supportive team from whom you can learn, develop and grow
• Wider opportunities to be involved across the Equa Multi Academy Trust
• An energised and professional working environment
• Benefits include: pension scheme, free on-site parking and cycle to work scheme

Further details about the role

Job Description

Main Purpose

• To lead, manage and develop the provision of resistant materials teaching and learning within the technology and art faculty.
• Promoting and safeguarding welfare of children

Person’s line managed

• Teachers of resistant materials

Generic Responsibilities Teaching and Learning

• Ensure that Schemes of Learning reflect current educational thinking

• Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching and learning in the department
• Keep up to date with local and national initiatives and subject knowledge
• Lead the department in response to initiatives
• Ensure that the departmental area is a positive learning environment

Lead, manage and develop a subject area

• Plan strategically in line with the School improvement plan
• Write departmental plans, lead in the implementation of the plan, monitor its effectiveness and impact and to provide an interim review
• Implement departmental self-evaluation and action plan to bring about improvement
• Ensure that appropriate resources are available and well maintained
• Implement school policy within the department
• Fulfil statutory requirements related to the subject area
• Communicate effectively with all stakeholders as necessary and appropriate

Commitment to safeguarding

Lavington School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and well-being of its students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this committment.

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About Lavington School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 858 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Lavington School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hr@lavington.wilts.sch.uk
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Lavington School is a mixed comprehensive school and currently has 965 students on roll, aged 11 to 18. It is situated on the western edge of the village of Market Lavington, about six miles south of Devizes, in the heart of rural Wiltshire. Numbers on roll have grown over the years with the school being over-subscribed. In 2018 the school opened its Sixth Form as a satellite centre of Devizes School.

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