Director of Mathematics
Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
Blackburn, Lancashire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter
- Apply by:
- 19 February 2018
Job overview
Join us at an exciting time in our school and partnership improvement journey as we pursue excellence in all of our schools.
Working in partnership with St Patrick’s National Teaching School, Our Lady & St John Catholic College is an 11-16 Voluntary Aided School enjoying ‘rapid improvement’ in our pursuit of excellence.
We are seeking to appoint a successful, highly motivated and dynamic candidate to lead our Maths team as Director of Mathematics. You will be joining the extended senior leadership team and play a key role in delivering excellence in OLSJ and in the strategic development of both schools at Leadership level. A key aspect of the role will be supporting Maths improvement across the North West in the 25 schools we support.
The successful candidate will:
· Be an outstanding classroom practitioner.
· Be or aspire to be a potential Specialist Leader in Education and system leader.
· Be passionate about student achievement and aspirations.
· Have successful experience of improving standards.
· Be able to inspire colleagues and get the best from others.
· Show commitment to the school’s vision and Catholic ethos.
· Be able to show they have secured high results with their own teaching classes.
An application pack can be found on our website or can be obtained from Mrs Casandra Taylor (Ctaylor2@olsj.blackburn.sch.uk), applications can be returned by e-mail to Mrs Taylor.
Our Lady & St John Catholic College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.
Closing date for the application is: 3pm on Monday 19 February
Attached documents
About Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
- Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
- North Road, Blackburn
- Lancashire
- BB1 1PY
- United Kingdom
Our Lady and St John is an 11-16 Catholic Voluntary Aided School situated in Blackburn and part of Salford Diocese. Our strengths are our staff and our students. We have a great team spirit in school and support each other to improve and succeed. As one of our students said to inspectors: "We are like a family here." We have staff and students of various faiths, but all are committed to our school values of Unity, Faith, Truth, Justice, Forgiveness and Industry. These values are routed in our Catholic faith which is about educating the whole child, seeing each individual as sacred and welcoming everyone regardless of gender, faith, ethnicity or sexuality.
We have an excellent CPD programme, using high quality twilights and instructional coaching approaches to support all of our staff to improve. Shared planning time is allocated in the school day to reduce workload and raise standards. Consequently, our curriculum planning and implementation is improving all the time. We also have an extensive extra-curricular programme that is built around timetabled clubs to support staff to contribute without impacting on their work / life balance.
Our support for staff and students is a real strength of the school. We have excellent pastoral provision and a well-established programme to support the mental health of staff and students called the "Healthy Heads" strategy. We have an active staff welfare group who arrange social events and support staff at times of personal difficulty. Our staff enjoy working here and would love to welcome you to our team if you are successful in an application.
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