Subject Leader of Religious Studies
Ashby School, Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 1DT19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter or August start
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
31 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Religious education
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR 2A - £3390 (an enhanced TLR would be considered for the right candidate)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Delegation
- To actively support the faculty leadership in the event of absence
Teaching & Learning
- To monitor and evaluate teaching, learning and behaviour management in the agreed area of responsibility to achieve the very best outcomes for students.
- To contribute to a range of effective learning opportunities that foster enjoyment and progress leading to positive outcomes.
Curriculum & Assessment
- To create an explicit Subject vision for learning and teaching in line with whole school priorities and ethos, National Curriculum Programmes of Study and KS4 & 5
Specifications.
- To establish, communicate and continually review the curriculum intent
- To produce clear long, medium and short-term planning that leads to high quality and consistent teaching and learning outcomes.
- Driving learning and progress utilising the faculty approach to formative and summative assessment for the subject cohorts
Behaviour
- To lead and be accountable for behaviour for learning in a specified area
- To actively support teachers to promote positive classroom behaviour management.
Inclusion
- To collect and listen to Student Voice to support Ashby Great Teaching for all.
- To ensure the full range of students make appropriate progress.
Professional Development
- To contribute to CPL within the faculty.
- To share good practice through demonstration lessons and faculty meetings.
Professional Development
- To professionally develop faculty staff through induction, coaching, PIP and professional mentoring in order that high levels of performance are secured.
- To support colleagues to meet their personal and professional targets where appropriate.
- To actively engage in CPL within the broader Trust and world of education
Organisational
Management
- To maintain effective professional communication with colleagues, carry out duties and actively support school policies and ethos.
- To identify, plan and monitor resource allocation to ensure an equally high quality of experience for every student.
Continuous
School
Improvement
- To undertake coaching of staff in order that high levels of performance are secured.
- To lead Self-Evaluation in the subject in accordance with the School’s Self Evaluation Policy and Practices.
Standards
- To participate in whole-school initiatives to increase achievement.
- To utilise assessment data in order to strategically monitor student and class progress and use appropriate intervention strategies to improve achievement.
Working in Partnership
- To communicate effectively with stakeholders to promote curriculum.
- Contribute to the development of effective subject links with external agencies and feeder schools and disseminate findings as appropriate
- To take part in marketing and liaison activities such as Open Evenings, Parents’ Evenings.
Governance &
Accountability
- To ensure examination and other protocols are followed correctly including with respect to NEA where appropriate.
- To ensure deadlines are met by the Faculty.
What the school offers its staff
Ashby School is part of the Life MAT and we benefit from collaborative working across all of the MAT schools with an extensive programme of professional and subject specific CPD. We also look outwards beyond the Trust engaging with local Higher education institutes and providing a package of support to those students in Key Stage 5 who wish to pursue Science study beyond Sixth form.
The post offers an exceptional opportunity for an experienced teacher looking for their next challenge, or an individual seeking to begin their leadership journey in a student and staff centred Academy. We offer an excellent Continued Professional Development programme for all our staff and are committed to continuous improvement in both teaching and learning within a supportive environment. We also extend this to support the development of leadership skills for colleagues at all points on their journey embracing the full range of NPQs as appropriate within this progression.
We are proud of the work we do at Ashby School: if you are passionate about your subject, share our enthusiasm for teaching and learning and are seeking to develop your practice in a supportive and dynamic school, we would be delighted to hear from you.
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 Ashby School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1527 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Ashby School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- g-lees@ashbyschool.org.uk
Ashby School is a thriving, successful and over-subscribed 11-19 Academy with over 1,600 students on roll including 500 in Ashby Sixth form. Conveniently located close to the M42 and M1, within easy reach of several areas of outstanding natural beauty and with the national forest on the doorstep, the school is set in its own attractive grounds in the expanding market town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
At Ashby School prides itself on putting students at its heart. We want all our students to have a happy and successful learning experience and are committed to ensuring that all students fulfil their academic potential.
Everyone in the Ashby School community is committed to achieving this, because, at Ashby, ‘Anything is Possible’.
Arranging a visit to Ashby School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email g-lees@ashbyschool.org.uk.
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