Assistant Learning Leader Science
Sir John Thursby Community College
Lancashire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS / UPS plus TLR 2.2 (£4,785)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2021
- Apply by:
- 9 March 2021
Job overview
Assistant Learning Leader Science
Required from 1st September 2021
MPS/UPS + TLR 2.2 (£4,785)
As part of our journey to become ‘a truly great school’, we are looking for a highly effective and motivated teacher to join our dynamic and successful Science department in a leadership role. Building on our current success, we wish to invest in an Assistant Learning Leader in Science, in order to support our ambition to be in the top 20% of schools nationally. The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom teacher with the vision and expertise to support the improvement of students’ outcomes in science.
Working as part of the Science team they will inspire staff and students to achieve beyond expectations and build on the current success enjoyed by the department, where 100% of students achieved 4+ in Chemistry, 100% 4+ in Biology, 100% 4+ in Physics and 52% 4+ in Combined Science. In normal circumstances, the department also runs a number of extra-curricular activities and visits, such as the hugely successful and well attended Science Club, to inspire a love and passion for Science. We offer both Triple and Combined Sciences at KS4 to ensure that we offer an aspirational curriculum to all our students. The ability to offer Physics to GCSE would be advantageous.
We are a good school and we are passionate about and ambitious for our students. We value and care for our staff and seek to abandon anything that hinders the preparation of great lessons and creates unnecessary workload. Our last Ofsted in January 2020 noted that, "Sir John Thursby Community College continues to be a good school. Staff enjoy working at this school. The pupils that we spoke to told us that they feel safe at school. They have good relationships with staff and they are well cared for. Senior leaders are determined to make the school better for pupils and staff.”
Our beautiful, state of the art building ensures that our students and staff have the best learning environment in which to achieve. We are a very positive community, with our recent staff survey showing that over 97% of our staff enjoy coming to work and are proud to be part of our school. At SJT we view the professional development of all staff as a priority and our innovative ‘Learn Together’ initiative enables all staff to be on our outstanding teacher programme.
This role is a great opportunity for the right candidate to develop leadership skills, to contribute to our work and to benefit from an excellent learning environment where teachers are encouraged to progress their careers with us.
We are looking for a teacher who shares our drive and passion to inspire our students with the love of their subject and has the motivation and expertise to:
• Lead on KS4 assessment and tracking to ensure that achievement rises in Science due to effective analysis of student performance and through the delivery of an appropriate and inspiring curriculum
• Lead on the provision and monitoring of SEND students at KS3 and KS4
• Support the Learning Leader in the leadership of Science
The successful candidate will fully embrace our ethos of ‘Belong, Believe, Achieve’ whilst bringing fresh ideas that will build on current strengths and achievements through:
• Outstanding classroom practice and an ability to engage all young people.
• A commitment to contribute to our extra-curricular programme.
• The ability to motivate students of all abilities to achieve their full potential.
• A passion and commitment to raise standards and achievement.
• The ability to work and contribute as part of a team.
• Commitment, resilience, patience, hard work and a good sense of humour.
• The willingness to do what it takes to achieve our goals.
Further details and application form are available from the college website or Irene Hayhurst (on behalf of the Headteacher) as detailed below.
• Website: www.sirjohnthursby.lancs.sch.uk
• Sir John Thursby Community College, Eastern Avenue, Burnley, BB10 2AT Tel: 01282 682313
• email i.hayhurst@sirjohnthursby.lancs.sch.uk
Please submit your completed application form (on the version supplied with this vacancy) to Mrs I Hayhurst: i.hayhurst@sirjohnthursby.lancs.sch.uk
Closing date: 9am Tuesday 9th March
Shortlisting: Thursday 11th March
Interview date: TBC
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure and a range of other recruitment checks.
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About Sir John Thursby Community College
- Sir John Thursby Community College
- Eastern Avenue, Burnley
- Lancashire
- BB10 2AT
- United Kingdom
Sir John Thursby Community College is a mixed 11-16, multi-cultural, fully inclusive school which values all students, staff and our community partners. We have over 1,100 students on roll and over 150 staff enjoying working together to provide the best for everyone. We are also fortunate to work in a fantastic building that was one of five community high schools within the Building Schools for the Future project in Burnley.
Everything we do is driven by our strategic vision and our ambition to be a truly great school. Three words are central to what we do: Belong, Believe and Achieve. We are committed to ensuring that all our students have bright futures and collectively, as a staff, we commit to our beliefs which are set out in our Strategic Vision (included in this pack).
In our latest Ofsted report in April 2023, the school was graded ‘good’ in every area and inspectors commented that the pupils ‘enjoy attending this thriving and popular school’ and that they ‘feel a strong sense of belonging to the school community.’ The report also identified that students ‘achieve well’ and that ‘almost all pupils successfully move on to apprenticeships, A levels or other forms of education, employment or training’.
People and relationships are at the hear of what we do. One of our key values is that all members of our school community are known, valued and loved and we work hard to ensure this happens. We were delighted that Ofsted saw this in our relationships with our young people when they commented that ‘staff know pupils very well’. We work hard to create an environment in which staff feel a strong sense of belonging to our school, our students and our families. We are firmly committed to ensuring that all our staff have a positive work/life balance and as a result we give all our teaching staff a minimum of 20% non-contact time and staff have excellent CPD opportunities.
In our 2023 staff survey, 97% of staff were proud to be a member of our school community and 95% said that they enjoyed working at the school. Staff commented that:
· ‘Leaders care and lead by example’
· ‘SJT is a great place to work’
· ‘I love being part of the SJT team and appreciate the opportunities that the school provides for its staff and pupils’
· ‘The staff are extremely positive and supportive of each other and value relationships with their students’
· ‘I do believe this is a great place to work, and I feel lucky to have this opportunity’
We have a highly ambitious curriculum with over 70% of students following the EBacc subjects. Our results are consistently strong with students Attainment 8 above expectations and Progress 8 in 2022 +0.16
We have a positive behaviour system which has ‘high expectations of pupil’s behaviour’ (Ofsted 2023).
We are proud of our achievements and continue to go from strength to strength. I would encourage you to come and visit SJT to see why we all believe that it is a special place to work and make a difference. We look forward to receiving your application and please contact us if you would like any further information.
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