Deputy Curriculum Leader, Science
Cathedral Academy
Thornes Road, Wakefield
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPR/UPR with TLR and recruitment incentives
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018, or sooner
- Apply by:
- 26 January 2018
Job overview
Deputy Curriculum Leader, Science
MPR/UPR with TLR and recruitment incentives
The trust is willing to negotiate on starting salary, and a recruitment allowance of up to £10,000 is available to outstanding candidates.
Cathedral Academy will formally join Trinity Multi-Academy Trust, in February 2018. The flagship academy, Trinity Academy Halifax is a model of excellence for the growing number of academies and free schools joining the trust. The team behind the success at Trinity are working with leaders at Cathedral to replicate their successes in improving the outcomes for children and young people.
The academy has a new leadership team in place, who have embedded robust, clear systems and support to ensure that teachers can focus on developing their teaching. Cathedral have been working with Trinity trust since September 2016 and leaders have led improvements through implementing systems, which are based on world class, proven systems and focussed leadership.
Our results from 2017 demonstrated the impact of this new leadership team and collaborative work with the trust, with improvements in the attainment of six different subject areas including Maths which jumped up by 10%, History improving by 31% and Geography by 17%. These areas added to several other traditionally successful subjects to combine to make progress across the school a major achievement. The subsequent progress 8 score stands at +0.47, showing a vast improvement on the previous year and demonstrating a significant step forward for the academy.
Aspirations and ambitions are high and the potential is huge. By joining the trust Cathedral staff will access fantastic opportunities, which require the expertise and commitment of dedicated staff. Key to our continued improvements is quality of teaching. Across the trust we invest in the professional development of staff and are able to offer comprehensive, regular CPD opportunities for all staff. This includes cross-trust working.
In addition to professional development, we offer career progression and the opportunity to work on a range of innovative projects. As the trust expands and more schools join, there will be development opportunities to accelerate your career progression and build your leadership skills, whilst contributing to the trust’s vision of improving education for all students.
We understand and value the impact of an inspiring, imaginative and strong leader and we are looking to appoint a Deputy Curriculum Leader for our Science team. You will support the Curriculum Leader in leading and managing the curriculum area by providing strategic direction in terms of what learning in the area will look like in the future; encouraging innovation and research and evaluating student performance, and leading on strategies that increase achievement.
You will be able to teach all abilities across all key stages. You will want to drive changes in teaching and learning, and be confident about the impact you can make as a leader, on student achievement and the academy’s reputation.
You must be fully committed to optimising the opportunities that are available to children and young people, secure in the knowledge that you will be joining an ambitious forward-thinking Academy Trust that sets the standards for our family of schools and academies.
For more information on this role and to apply, visit our recruitment website; www.trinitymat.org/all-vacancies.
To find out more about Cathedral Academy and our vacancies, we are providing an opportunity for candidates to visit us to meet our students, staff and the leadership team. An open evening will be held on 18 January 2018 from 3.30pm. Please email recruitment@cathedralacademy.co.uk to register your interest.
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About Cathedral Academy
Cathedral Academy is an 11-16 mixed comprehensive school with a thriving specialism in Performing Arts and an outstanding Post 16 provision for Performing and Production Arts. Building on the success of CAPA College, which has a national reputation, we also offer an exciting 11-16 provision for young people with a real desire to pursue an education and career pathway in the Arts. CAPA Juniors, like CAPA draws students from across the region.
Cathedral Academy is the only Church of England secondary school in Wakefield and has a Christian ethos which nurtures and celebrates the individuality of every student, whether they are students with or without a faith of their own. We are firmly committed to providing the highest standards of care, guidance and support to our students and believe that safeguarding is of paramount importance. We take very seriously our duty of care to young people. Alongside our mission and pledge for students, we also follow a clear and consistent code of conduct for behaviour and have specialist teams of student liaison officers and student support staff, who are dedicated full time to the pastoral support of students and their families.
This is an exciting time to be considering joining Cathedral Academy as it is in the advanced stages of becoming part of Trinity Multi Academy Trust who will continue to support the school in its journey to build on its success .
The school is presently under new leadership, the Principal prior to appointment at Cathedral, was based at Trinity’s flagship school in Halifax and has been part of transforming education for the young people in north Halifax. Our recent Ofsted (Nov 2016) stated ‘ There has been swift, sustained improvement since the last inspection’. ‘The school has benefited enormously from its relationship with Trinity Multi Academy Trust. This has been central to improving teachers’ skills and improving leadership at all levels.’ It praised the school on the behaviour of its pupils and its rich and vibrant curriculum and stated that the Principal leads with vision and commitment with the backing of all staff. We are looking for highly motivated people to join us on the journey, taking Cathedral to the next level.
We are strongly focused on academic success for all our students. This is reflected in our mission statement: Believe, Achieve, Succeed and in the broad curriculum we offer, which allows students to follow a personalised pathway including a range of academic and vocational options.
At Cathedral Academy, we believe that teaching and learning should be engaging, exciting and challenging to our students and we strive to provide memorable and high quality learning experiences both inside the classroom and outside through our excellent and extensive extra-curricular activities programme and enrichments opportunities.
Staff development is a priority at Cathedral Academy. All members of our teaching team benefit from an individual CPD conversation with a senior member of staff, in which training needs and career aspirations can be discussed in some detail. We offer an extensive CPD package, including whole staff training, critical skills pathways and a bespoke programme. We also offer coaching and ‘open classroom’ weeks.
Together, we aspire towards the highest standards and the best outcomes for our students. At Cathedral Academy, we challenge and support each other, staff and students alike, in a caring, vibrant and happy community. We celebrate our success and constantly strive towards excellence.
If you would like more information, please have a look on our website at www.cathedralacademy.co.uk or, even better, give us a call and arrange to visit us on a typical day at Cathedral Academy and see for yourself what we are all about and what we have to offer.
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