Skip to main content
Tes home
SearchBack to search
Deputy Director of Learning: Business and IT

Deputy Director of Learning: Business and IT

Harris Garrard Academy

Bexley

Salary:
MPS/UPS (Outer London) + £1,500 Harris Allowance + TLR
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September
Apply by:
30 May 2022

Job overview

Are you looking for your next step in school leadership? This may be the role for you. We are looking for a qualified, experienced teacher to join our academy as Deputy Director of Business and IT. At Harris Garrard Academy, you will join a dedicated and open team of professionals supporting the wider academy team.

About Us

Harris Garrard Academy is an all-through 3–18 academy with approximately 1350 pupils on roll and joined the Harris Federation as a sponsored academy in September 2017. The academy is based in Thamesmead in a purpose built building. We are now on a journey towards “Outstanding”, led by highly experienced executive principals with proven track records of school transformation. Our vision is clear: nothing is impossible and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. We believe we are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. We support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that our students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond our academy.

Why work at Harris Garrard Academy? 

  • The opportunity to be involved in the transformation of a school from the very start 
  • A stunning working environment, in a purpose-built school designed by Norman Foster and nominated for the Stirling Prize for architecture in 2004 
  • A highly motivated team, led by exceptionally experienced and talented senior leaders 
  • All the advantages of a successful academy group, with a strong central team of support, teaching and leadership staff 
  • Generous Harris rewards and benefits package

About Harris Garrard Academy

Harris Garrard Academy is a new school with drive and ambition. Located in the wider South Thamesmead area, we cater to a vastly vibrant 3-19 aged student community. Accessible by fantastic rail and bus transport links, the academy’s stunning working environment is within a purpose-built school designed by Norman Foster and nominated for the Stirling Prize for architecture in 2004.

Dedicated to moving forward

Our vision is clear: nothing is impossible and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. We believe we are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. We support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that our students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond our academy.

As one of Harris’s successful all-through academies, staff at all levels belong to a strong, cohesive team working with Executive Principal Chris Everett and the wider SLT team. Staff can expect to grow with us as we continue to innovate and evolve as an academy. With ample opportunity to build on CPD, your potential is limitless with us.

Main Areas of Responsibility

The purpose of your role will be: 

  • To deputise for the Director. To assist in leading the creation and establishment of outstanding provision within the subject area. This to include all programmes, systems and structures taking account of the academy’s values and vision leading to outstanding teaching and learning. 
  • To be accountable for student progress and development in the subject area across KS3, KS4 and post 16, including meeting student achievement targets for subject areas which are agreed by the Principal and the Governing Body. 
  • To ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the subject area through continuously, developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning. 
  • To ensure the provision of an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students in the subject area, in accordance with the academy aims and policies, as determined by the Principal and Governing Body. 
  • To ensure that all school policies and procedures are implemented and applied consistently by all staff in the subject area. 
  • To ensure agreed tutor programme is implemented and that tutors are effective in their role. 
  • To effectively and efficiently manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and physical resources across the subject area. 
  • To lead development for literacy, within subject areas, to raise standards of Literacy across the academy.

Your main areas of responsibility will fall under the areas of: 

  • Operational and strategic planning (including contributing to the subject and faculty improvement plans, and assisting in the development of appropriate syllabuses, resources, schemes of work, marking policies, assessment and teaching strategies) 
  • Ensuring the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality and cost effective curriculum and leading development of the subject and its delivery 
  • Staff development (including assisting in recruiting, building and managing an effective team of motivated staff) 
  • Student outcomes (including assisting the director in ensuring the effective operation of target setting, monitoring and evaluation systems and the input and maintenance of accurate student data) 
  • Pastoral system (including being a form tutor to a selected group of students) 
  • Teaching, including acting as an outstanding role model

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will: 

  • Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree 
  • Have a minimum of one year's teaching experience 
  • Have proven success in raising achievement. 
  • Show a high level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement 
  • Have recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development 
  • Show good understanding of creative whole school strategies for improving literacy and numeracy and the importance of this in raising achievement 
  • Have experience of embedding innovative strategies for Assessment for Learning and Learning to Learn. 
  • Be willing to use coaching as a model for ensuring on-going professional development. 
  • Have a proven ability to identify and implement strategies to raise standards of Teaching and Learning.

Safeguarding Notice

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.

Equal Opportunities

The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.

Attached documents

About Harris Garrard Academy

School image 1
School image 2
School image 3
School image 4
School image 5
School image 6
School image 7
School image 8
School image 9
School image 10
School image 11
School image 12
School image 13
School image 14
+44 20 83204800

View on Google Maps

Visit employer website

Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow Tes' Fair Recruitment Policy.

Applications closed