Deputy Director of Science

United Learning

The John Roan School is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

The role

The position provides a genuinely exciting opportunity to develop their vision of what science should be like for students aged 11 to 18 and to be innovative in their approach to delivering a robust science curriculum. 

The Deputy Director of Science role provides an excellent opportunity for an experienced, proven Science teacher who has drive and desire to further develop their career. You will work closely with the Director of Science to ensure that the science curriculum priorities are in line with the whole school priorities. 

We are values-driven, and our vision is to provide excellent education so that all young people can make a success of their lives. We believe in teaching through explicit/direct instruction (Rosenshine and Englemann) and utilising TLAC 2.0 techniques. Our mission is to bring out ‘the best in everyone’. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs.

We also believe in ‘Education with Character’ – we want young people to look back on schooling that has inspired and challenged them, given them wide opportunity and prepared then for the ups and downs of life. We are driven by ‘PRIDE’ values: Proud, Respect, Involved, Determined and Excellence. 

About You

What we are looking for

The successful candidate will be:

• An experienced and highly effective Science teacher, with an excellent track record to include outcomes and leadership within Science. A specialism in Chemistry or Physics is essential for this role.

• Aligned to our values and mission. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture to provide a quality first education experience to all students, you will love working here. 

• Someone who is passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs. Someone that does not make excuses for what children can achieve. 

• We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. We have access to curriculum advisors to support with logistics of delivering a robust and engaging curriculum as well as to offer developmental CPD needs. We offer a structured internal Teaching and Learning internal CPD programme to ensure that staff can continually develop their professional practice and well as regular Pastoral CPD to ensure that the school maintains a positive environment for learning.

What we offer:

The position provides a genuinely exciting opportunity to work in a rapidly improving department and to be part of the success story of moving a school out of serious weakness. 

• Huge support and progression opportunities.

• A competitive salary.

• Disruption-free learning and a fair but strict behaviour system. 

• Collaborative planning with centralized, shared units of work and resources. 

• Excellent Science curriculum and resources produced by UL Science subject leaders.

• Opportunity to teach up to A Level. 

• A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies. 

• No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ feedback, helping you to continuously develop.

• Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and promotion opportunities across the United Learning Cluster.

• Opportunity to complete the NPQSL. 

• An unrivalled professional progression model. 

• A very pleasant location in Blackheath. 

To Apply

Please apply online by clicking on the following link https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/2087198?cid=1567

Where teaching is better shared

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