Leader of Computing and Business Studies
Stockport Academy
Stockport
- Expired
- Salary:
- Augmented Salary and TLR
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January
- Apply by:
- 15 October 2017
Job overview
Closing Date: Monday 16 October 2017, Noon
Interview date: Expected to be Monday 16 October 2017
Stockport Academy is part of United Learning, a large and growing group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. Schools within United Learning work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. By collecting expertise and combining resources, we help to make the tough job of teaching a little easier. With a shared curriculum and lesson plans from around the group available to all, our teachers have strong foundations to lead the engaging, rounded education our children deserve. Our intranet site, United Hub, is just one example of how we share this resource and communicate across sites, helping to simplify processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. We reward our staff: with wide career opportunities – between Primary and Secondary, Academy and Independent – better pay, benefits, and ultimately the satisfaction of helping every child at each of our schools to succeed and reach their full potential.
Stockport Academy is a good school with outstanding features. Ofsted March 2015
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an environment where students’ behaviour is impeccable, where they treat each other and staff with real respect, have a genuine enjoyment of school and enjoy their learning. The Academy is on the road to outstanding and has a relentless drive and determination to ensure the best possible education for students in our care.
We are looking to recruit outstanding practitioners who are innovative and can inspire students aged 11 – 16 to achieve their full potential and continue their enjoyment of school.
We currently have a vacancy for Head of Department – Computing and Business Studies for a January start. This is a growing department with the opportunity for the right person to be the driver for progress and attainment for students preparing for working life. If you have the teaching and management skills and the resilience to lead an exceptional department where CPD is promoted and leadership support is strong, then this is the post for you.
For further information about this exciting role please download the attached job description.
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Please apply online by clicking on the following link: https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/1027303
Where teaching is better shared
United Learning comprises: UCST (Registered in England No: 2780748. Charity No. 1016538) and ULT (Registered in England No. 4439859. An Exempt Charity). Companies limited by guarantee. VAT number 834 8515 12. Registered address: United Learning, Worldwide House, Thorpe Wood, Peterborough, PE3 6SB.
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About Stockport Academy
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Stockport Academy opened in September 2007 and moved into a new state of the art building in 2008.
Stockport Academy strives for excellence across its curriculum. We teach a broad and balanced range of subjects including all the key areas of the National Curriculum. Students receive an all round education and are encouraged to pay particular attention to the core skills of English, Mathematics, Science and ICT.
All academies have a specialism. At Stockport Academy, this is science supported by a theme of business and enterprise. This specialism reflects the needs and interests of our students and the employment prospects in the area.
A full grounding in business and enterprise ensures that students are prepared for the working world. The Science element of the specialism will include all the traditional areas of the subject as well as more vocational ones, such as Health and Social Care and Sports Science.
Stockport Academy is sponsored by United Learning. United Learning was established to create a family of academies that provide outstanding education. It was formed in 2002 as a subsidiary of the United Church Schools Trust (UCST) which has been running high-quality independent schools in the UK for almost 125 years. United Learning offers the stability of an organisation with a long-term commitment to education in this country and the experience to run successful schools.
United Learning is the largest provider of academies across the UK. Its academies are inclusive and welcoming schools where students of all faiths, backgrounds and abilities are valued and respected.
As a member of the United Learning family, Stockport Academy will shares the objective of bringing out “the best in everyone”, enabling each pupil to become a balanced, happy and articulate person with the intellectual freedom to be creative; confidence to initiate; flexibility to respond to challenge, change and adversity; compassion to serve others; spirit to enjoy life; integrity to be trustworthy; and motivation to have a lifelong love of learning.
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