Trust Lead English
Aldridge Education
Islington
- £50,000 - £60,000 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2021
- Apply by:
- 19 April 2021
Job overview
Trust Lead English
Reports to: CEO
Start date: 1 September 2021
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000
Contract: Permanent
The Role
The Trust Lead for English will promote and implement strategies for improving attainment in English across the Trust. Working in partnership with the CEO, other Trust Leads, Principals, Heads of Department and Aldridge staff, the role involves a strategic overview of the subject across the Trust, involvement in planning and school improvement, alongside day to day involvement with English departments. This will include activities such as coaching, planning, leadership development, supporting lessons and intervention, modelling strong practice, data analysis, curriculum development, support with student intervention and leading regional subject meetings.
Key responsibilities
• Provide the strategic lead for English across the region
• Lead regional subject initiatives and meetings; sharing, innovating and disseminating good practice, including co-planning and moderation
• Support Heads of Department in each allocated academy as needed, ensuring agreed best practice is being followed, training Heads of Department and providing extra support and capacity where it is needed at a leadership level
• Support the development of teaching capacity within allocated academies, taking a lead in coaching staff and training others to coach also, in line with the Trust’s coaching model
• Work with allocated academies to ensure that the curriculum, delivery model and assessments being used are in line with Trust policy and meet the needs of all students
• Support regional and academy-level work to ensure that curriculum decisions are appropriate
• Work with academy staff to promote raised attainment and progress measures in English, with a progress target for each academy that shows strong outcomes for students
• Support staff with planning through co-planning sessions and train staff to close gaps using Trust agreed on strategies for achieving this
• Provide support to academy leadership teams and subject leaders to address underperformance in English departments
• Support intervention and take part in teaching where this is the most strategic use of time to rapidly raise standards
• Identify best practice locally, nationally and internationally to refine or bespoke the practice to the needs of the region
• Ensure that subject knowledge, curriculum understanding and pedagogy around GCSE and GCE specifications are facilitated in allocated academies
• Take part in monitoring and review work across the Trust as requested by the CEO
• Support recruitment work as requested by the CEO
Person Specification
• Qualified to degree level and above
• Qualified to teach in the UK
• Able to teach as a subject specialist to at least GCSE level, preferably A level, in English as a specialism
• Outstanding teacher
• Proven record in delivering outstanding attainment and progress in English
• Experience in identifying, implementing, monitoring and evaluating effective strategies for improving attainment in English
• Experience in establishing strategic interventions of English across several departments or schools, or facilitating the sharing of best practice around effective academic intervention
• Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring English teachers, as well as delivering staff training to support improved attainment and progress
Knowledge and skills
• Up to date knowledge of the current English curriculum and assessment requirements
• Recent experience of delivering results in school
• A highly effective style that is both consultative and influential
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to consider both the detail and the ‘bigger picture’
• Self-motivated and resilient
• Effective team worker and leader
Other
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Aldridge is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our academies. To meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
How to apply
We aim to ensure that we recruit the right person for the job. We will ensure that the selection process is fair and without discrimination for or against any candidate based on age, ethnicity, sex, marital status, or sexual orientation. The person specification sets out the criteria used to assess candidates through the selection process.
We are committed to safeguarding our pupils and will assess the candidate’s suitability for working with children as part of the selection process. We will check the accuracy of all information and investigate any perceived anomalies. We take up references before the interview and use these to verify the information you have given us. Firm offers of employment are never made without satisfactory references. All potential employees are subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Applications: Please send a cover letter and application form ensuring that you demonstrate how your experience and skills make you suitable for the position Sunday 18 April 2021.
Candidates: Candidates who best meet the person specification will be invited to an interview. Interviews and associated assessment activities are likely to be conducted on Thursday 22 April 2021. Our successful candidate will join us in September 2021.
References: We request references for all candidates who are invited to interview. Please inform us if we should not contact your referees before the interview. Your first referee should be your current or last employer.
Interview Process: The interviews will be held at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (Lewes Rd, Brighton, BN1 9PW). The interview will consist of assessment activities and a formal interview. These are designed to allow you to demonstrate your skills and abilities. You will be asked to bring proof of qualifications and identity on the first day.
Final Selection: Following the assessment activities and formal interview, we will use the person specification as a guide to select the most suitable candidate for our Trust. We will then telephone each candidate to inform them of the outcome. We will give brief feedback during this telephone conversation.
Offer of Employment: We will make a verbal offer of employment by telephone within 48 hours of the interview and this will be confirmed in writing. Any offer is made subject to:
• References satisfactory to us
• A satisfactory DBS check
• Provision of proof of identity and qualifications
Probationary Period: The post is subject to a six-month probationary period. On successful completion of probation, the post will become permanent.
Please return your application form and cover letter (no more than one side of A4) via email to: HR@aldridgeeducation.org
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About Aldridge Education
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Aldridge Education
In joining an Aldridge school you’ll be joining a family who share a strong sense of values. We are passionate about attaining the highest standards of achievement and welfare for all of our students. We are unafraid to challenge conventional thinking and work collaboratively with all the schools in our family and are committed to securing for our students the opportunities, experiences and networks that will help them to succeed, be ‘life ready’, ‘work ready’ and independent. In addition to this we encourage sharing best practice and learning from others within our family of schools and beyond.
We are extremely proud that our schools have won numerous awards which showcase their achievement and facilities in recent years, just a few examples of which are:
• Portslade Aldridge Community Academy won Community School of the Year 2016, at the annual awards hosted by The Argus. In addition to this it emerged victorious by winning the STEMNET STEM Club Award 2015 and was awarded the Charity Achievement of the Year 2015 in The Argus Youth in Action Awards.
• Darwen Aldridge Community Academy was East Lancashire School of the Year 2015 and was named one eleven schools from eleven countries across Europe to have won the Entrepreneurial School of the Year Award 2015, a national and European recognition of the best schools championing entrepreneurship education. In November 2016 the Academy received a British Council International School Award recognising its “outstanding development of the international dimension in the curriculum”.
• Brighton and Portslade Aldridge Community Academies’ joint Digital Media Academy won the Academy Partnership Award 2016 at the National Education Business Awards.
• UTC@harbourside’s riverside campus won a Sussex Heritage Trust Award 2016 for the quality and excellence of its design.
Our developing national multi-academy trust is organised in regional clusters to ensure that our schools retain their individual community identities, and that we can attract and support new schools to strengthen the family. Each school has its own Local Governing Committee including parent and staff representatives to ensure the local community is engaged with the academy and that it is properly meeting its community’s needs.
Working together as a family of schools supported by a central team means that we can:
• Grow and retain our key leaders and teachers
• Provide greater opportunities for staff secondments and promotions
• Share curriculum development and specialist resources, such as subject leaders, across our schools locally and nationally
• Give our school leaders more time to focus on school improvement and the classroom by pooling and improving school support functions
What do our teachers see as the advantages of working in an Aldridge Education school?
“We have received excellent coaching support and advice from experienced individuals. Aldridge has provided support when capacity/time has not been available internally.”
“It’s about the expertise and support received, being part of a brand which has clear goals and vision, being part of an educational organisation which is so innovative and forward thinking.”
Sarah Dench relocated from Brighton to London after teaching at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy for five years and knew she wanted to stay working at an Aldridge school. In September 2015 she joining Kensington Aldridge Academy, you can read her story in full here.
If you are interested in becoming part of the Aldridge family then please take a look at our opportunities.
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