Director of Learning for Maths. Job in London Education & Training Jobs

Harris Federation; London; On-site; GBP 2,000 - 50,000

Job description

About Us

Harris Academy Chobham is always on the lookout for inspirational and influential staff. Most of all, we are on the lookout for potential colleagues who like our students and want to help them succeed. We understand that if staff are to give their best to our students over a sustained period of time, then the school needs to provide them with the best deal possible. In order to help our staff have the best possible experience and achieve a proper work-life balance, we have put into place a range of measures to benefit both our teaching and student services colleagues. These include:

1. An extra week of holiday for all Harris Academy Chobham staff. This takes the form of a two-week half term in October. We work fewer days than most other schools.
2. Outstanding professional development both at Harris Academy Chobham and through the wider Harris Federation.
3. Excellent promotion opportunities.
4. A constant dialogue about workload and how to manage it most effectively. We have regular workload audits, and frequent campaigns to tackle unnecessary work and identify quick wins.
5. Rapid and effective support with any student behavioural issues arising.
6. A high-quality staff induction programme.
7. Marking protocols devised by departments themselves.
8. Clear communications and manageable deadlines. We only ask staff to do what is necessary and avoid complication and confusion.
9. Learning walks rather than formal lesson observations. These are not graded.
10. Nursery on site.
11. Flexible and part-time working encouraged whenever possible.
12. Additional time for leadership responsibilities.
13. High levels of administrative support for all teachers.

Other benefits of working at Harris Academy Chobham:

1. World-class facilities for learning, leisure and sport. A school which is genuinely at the heart of its local community.
2. The advantages of working for the country's most successful major Academy group. These include amazing consultant support and a range of high-quality central services.
3. Generous Harris rewards and benefits package, including £2000 annually for Mainscale/Upper teachers.

We regard staff wellness as being central to the school's purpose and to its success. We have several initiatives which we think give Harris Academy Chobham staff one of the best wellness packages to be found anywhere, including:

1. Access to the Calm mindfulness app.
2. Staff fitness suite and multiple team sports opportunities.
3. Staff social events.
4. Staff discounts at shops and restaurants in the local area.
5. Access to the Harris Federation's staff counselling service, Dedicated Wellness Hub.
6. Healix Healthcare package.

The complete Wellness Strategy can be read on our website.

To learn more about working in our academy and what we can offer you, view our academy page via the "why work at" button.

Main Areas of Responsibility

We are currently looking to appoint a qualified, experienced teacher to join Harris Academy Chobham as Director of Mathematics to ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the subject area, continuously developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.

The purpose of your role will be:

1. To be accountable for student progress and development in the subject area across KS3, KS4 and post 16, including meeting student achievement targets for subject areas which are agreed by the Principal and the Governing Body.
2. To ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the subject area through continuously developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.
3. To ensure the provision of an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students in the subject area, in accordance with the academy aims and policies, as determined by the Principal and Governing Body.
4. To ensure that all school policies and procedures are implemented and applied consistently by all staff in the subject area.
5. To ensure agreed tutor programme is implemented and that tutors are effective in their role.
6. To ensure effective behaviour for learning is evident throughout faculty.
7. To effectively and efficiently manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and physical resources across the subject area.
8. To lead development for literacy, through the WORD strategy, within subject areas, to raise standards of Literacy across the Academy.

Your main areas of responsibility will fall under the areas of:

1. Operational and strategic planning (including rigorous self-evaluation and review of subject area performance, formulating the subject and faculty improvement plans, and leading the development of appropriate syllabuses, resources, schemes of work, marking policies, assessment and teaching strategies).
2. Ensuring the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality and cost effective curriculum and leading development of the subject and its delivery.
3. Staff development (including recruiting, building and managing an effective team of motivated staff).
4. Student outcomes (including ensuring the effective operation of target setting, monitoring and evaluation systems and the input and maintenance of accurate student data).
5. Pastoral system (including being a form tutor to a selected group of students).
6. Teaching, including acting as an outstanding role model.

We would like to hear from you if you:

1. Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a good, relevant undergraduate degree.
2. Are an excellent teacher with a minimum of two years' teaching experience.
3. Have proven success in raising achievement.
4. Have experience of leading others, ensuring high quality performance.
5. Have successful experience in implementation of monitoring, evaluation and review process to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
6. Demonstrate a high level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement.
7. Have recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development.
8. Have experience of presenting to a wide audience including teachers, other managers, students and parents.
9. Understand creative whole school strategies for improving literacy and numeracy and the importance of this in raising achievement.
10. Have some successful experience of leading on cross subject initiatives that have contributed to raising achievement.
11. Have experience of embedding innovative strategies for Assessment for Learning and Learning to Learn.