Independent Learning Coordinator
King Solomon Academy
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Support staff Band 5 (Full Time equivalent and actual salary: £23,837-£27,494)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 4 July 2022
Job overview
Develop your career in education in a high performing all-through academy
Over the last seven years, King Solomon Academy has consistently been one of the highest performing non-selective schools in the country. We are redefining what is possible and we are seeking an exceptional person ready to join our high-performing school and to contribute to the achieving of our mission. This is a unique opportunity to be part of showing what education can achieve.
We are excited to appoint to the new role of Independent Learning Coordinator to the Secondary School. This role will be vital to the running of the school, organising the learning of pupils when they are outside of normal lessons.
This is a challenging and exciting role which places its holder in a position of influence over the future of pupils at KSA. You will have the opportunity to establish and implement systems to ensure provision is rigorous and effective. You will hold high expectations of pupils so that they achieve well.
This role will act as a great springboard for early career professionals to learn how to manage learning and behaviour in a high performing environment. The role will include supervising lessons when teachers are unavailable in a way which ensures that learning time is not lost. The role will also ensure that those pupils who are out of class are able to access quality resources.
To apply, and to see more information about the school and this role please visit http://kingsolomonacademy.org/current-vacancies. The deadline is 11am on Monday 4th July. To discuss the role, please feel free to email the Principal’s PA, Shaheen Riaz (s.riaz@kingsolomonacademy.org) or phone on 0207 563 6901.
Job Description: Independent Learning Coordinator
Reporting to: Appropriate Leader
Location: King Solomon Academy, Older Years Site
Salary: Support staff Band 5 (Full Time equivalent and actual salary: £23,837-£27,494)
Working Pattern:Full time, term-time only, 7.45-5pm
Start date: September 2022
The Role
To provide organisational and supervision capacity to the running of the school to ensure that pupils make rapid progress and are prepared superbly for success at university and beyond.
Key responsibilities
There are three key areas of responsibility as part of the Independent Learning Coordinator role, all of which rely on organizational excellence:
• Supporting the learning of pupils by ensuring all work set by subject specialists in their absence is prepared
• Supporting the learning of pupils by supervising pupils completing work set by subject specialists in their absence
• Ensuring that homework is completed by all pupils
• Ensuring all work completed by pupils out of class is relevant to their curriculum and systems surrounding its completion are robust
Outcomes and activities
Progress in lesson time
- Ensuring pupils have high quality work staff who are absent from lessons prepared and organised
- Supervising pupils so that they can make rapid progress when their specialist teacher is absent
- Applying the KSA behaviour policy robustly to ensure that all pupils remain focused in lessons when doing independent work
High quality homework completion
- Ensuring pupils who do not complete homework have the work accessible to ensure that they are able to do this work independently at the first opportunity
- Ensuring homework is set in all subjects and providing feedback to staff if it is not
- Ensuring pupils use their homework planner accurately
- Maintaining logs of homework completion
- Supporting with all other logistics of Homework completion
- Ensuring praise is issued for independent work
High quality work outside of lessons
- For pupils who are unable to be in class (suspension, isolation, etc), high quality work is set which is matched to their currciulum
- Supervising internal exclusion (Pupil Re-Engagement Programme)
- Mentoring and supporting pupils who are working independently
Other
• Undertake other various responsibilities as directed by the Principal.
Person Specification: Independent Learning Coordinator
Qualification criteria
- Degree level qualification
- Right to work in the UK
Knowledge and experience
- Experience of working with children and/or young people in a structured environment
- Experience leading, coaching and motivating pupils
- Ability to run and devise systems
- Proficient us of Microsoft Office is desirable
Skills and attributes
We are looking for these skills and attributes or at the very least, a clear, demonstrable capacity to develop them organised around our four school values:
“Aiming high”
• Prepares for success with excellent organisational skills
• Works hard to achieve goals
• Never gives up on ourselves, our teammates or our mission
• Willingness to play a full part in school life and go above and beyond to ensure success
• High energy and driven by a ‘whatever it takes’ attitude.
“Working together”
• Works effectively as part of a team
• Seeks out opportunities to build on own and others’ strengths and helps others to be better through a culture of clear, kind feedback
“Being kind”
• Able to create a safe, happy and successful environment for everyone in our community
• Shows gratitude
• Takes care of others
• Exhibits pride in achievements of self and others
“Leading the way”
• Has a passion for working with sixth form students
• Has confidence to hold students to account and have high expectations of them
• Is a positive role model to others
• Is brave
• Shows initiative
• Feels passionate about creating a better future.
Other
• Commitment to equality of opportunity and the safeguarding and welfare of all students
• Willingness to undertake training
• This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
About King Solomon Academy
King Solomon Academy is an all-through school for 3 - 18 year olds in Lisson Grove.
Pupils and their immense potential are at the heart of the academy. They live and work by the philosophy that there are no excuses and no short cuts to success, and promote excellence in every aspect of academy life.
Aims, Vision and Values
Our mission is to provide our pupils with a rigorous and transformational education which prepares them for success at university and beyond. We ensure that every pupil achieves academic success and has the real option of going to university. We want to make university education something which is accessible, exciting and aspirational. We believe our pupils work hard towards this goal because we make it real for them. We name our classes after well-known university cities and we name each year group by the year in which they will graduate from sixth form. We run residential trips to universities to open their eyes to the opportunties that university study can deliver.
In order to make our dreams for our pupils a reality, we foster values and approaches that transform the lives of our pupils. At the heart of our approach is that we are an all-through school with a thriving nursery provision. We believe in investing in knowing our pupils and their families extremely well, and we prioritise our pupils making extraordinary progress in the early years of their education. This sense of long-term commitment is core to our approach.
We have high expectations for all of our pupils, and believe that with great teaching and a lot of love and care, every child here can fulfil their potential.This both warm and strict approach means pupils feel safe and secure in the school but also confident to contribute to the future of the school and their community.
Long term, we aim to play our part in removing the educational disadvantage currently experienced by those born into economic deprivation our country. We strive to create role models and leaders in our community and through them to create a safer, fairer, and happier society.
Our vision
High expectations We are climbing the mountain to university
Excellent teaching We love teaching and learning and place it at the heart of all our work.
A rigorous and transformational curriculum Our all-through curriculum is carefully designed and implemented to ensure that our pupils have a journey from nursery to university
Exemplary Character Our focus on high quality relationships creates a powerful culture which ensures that our pupils develop exemplary behaviour and character.
A long-term commitment to every pupil As one of a handful of all-through schools with consistent cohorts of children across primary and secondary, we are able to develop a unique team and family orientated culture which ensures that each of our pupils and families are known and cared for as individuals.
Investment in our team We choose to work at KSA because we know we will work together to address educational inequality.
Efficient and effective organisation We carefully organise the operational and educational activities in our school to maximise our collective impact and make our work sustainable.
Specialisms
Like all Ark academies, King Solomon Academy has a maths specialism. Proficiency in maths is essential in every sphere of adult life, so we invest in the resources to attract and train the best maths teachers. We aim to produce confident and proficient mathematicians. We will ensure that pupils acquire skills as early as possible. We will help every student to maximise their skills and qualifications and offer those with particular ability the chance to accelerate their achievement in maths and further maths.
King Solomon Academy is a music specialist school. We chose music as a specialism because it is fun and inspiring and can involve every pupil. We believe that being part of the KSA orchestra will create a great sense of shared identity as well enabling our pupils to benefit from the known academic, intellectual and social advantages of musical training.
Ofsted
King Solomon Academy was inspected by Ofsted in May 2013 and was graded as "outstanding" in all areas. You can read the full report here.
Among the points highlighted by the Inspectors in the academy's first full inspection report since opening, they say:
“King Solomon Academy is an outstanding and unique 21st century school". Among many other points Ofsted praise KSA's creation and inspiration of "a community of enthusiastic learners, who are passionate about achieving academic excellence."
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