Director of Learning – Academic and Pastoral
Larkmead School
Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS + TLR 1 £7,698.00
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 21 April 2019
Job overview
Contract: Permanent Full-time
Start Date: 1st September 2019
Salary: MPS/UPS + TLR 1 £7,698.00
Responsible to: Assistant Headteacher
Larkmead School are seeking an exceptional, experienced and enthusiastic qualified teacher for a senior middle leadership role as Director of Learning from September 2019. We are particularly interested in any applicant who could teach either Science particularly at Key Stage 3 & 4 or Sociology at Key Stage 4 & 5.
This post combines a detailed overview of academic progress within a pastoral context. In this case the successful applicant would pick up a year group in Year 8 and take them through to Year 11.
The successful candidate will be an experienced teacher, looking for the next step in their career and ready to:
- Facilitate the leadership of a year group with overall responsibility for the academic and personal development of all students in the year group.
- Lead on year group pastoral support providing an effective link between home and school for parents and carers.
- Manage, in collaboration with appropriate middle managers, Behaviour for Learning across the year group.
- Lead in the implementation of the school behaviour policy in the year group.
- Manage and monitor staff tutoring across the year group that is: informed by best practice; lively relevant and engaging; well planned and target driven.
- Provide a motivating environment for staff in the year team, leading the team in a way that positively supports the schools agreed policies.
We offer:
• an excellent programme of induction and training which seeks to provide an excellent foundation for career progression;
• a forward thinking environment which recognises the benefits of considering flexible working patterns.
• a friendly, caring, supportive and collaborative team environment.
• a professional environment dedicated to Teaching and Learning with a supportive, dedicated and hardworking staff.
This is fantastic opportunity to work in a school that has just been re-rated “good” by Ofsted (January 2019).
We believe that everyone can achieve. We value diversity and want every student to realise their potential and to recognise that their potential has no limit. We create positive learning spaces, where students and teachers learn together: each challenging the other to get better and better at what they do; each having a voice and being actively supported in the running and decision making of the school.
Closing date: 9.00am Monday 22nd April 2019
Interview date: Week commencing 29th April 2019
Start date: September 2019
If you would like to apply for this position, please download the Vale Academy Trust Teaching Staff Application Form from our website http://www.larkmead-school.com/vacancies/
Completed applications should be sent by email to office.4125@larkmead.oxon.sch.uk by the closing date of 9.00am Monday 22nd April 2019.
Larkmead School is a member of the Vale Academy Trust. The Trust and its schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced check.
All staff will be expected to promote fundamental British values.
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About Larkmead School
Thank you for considering Larkmead School as the next step in your career.
Our ethos of ‘one community, individual minds, creating futures’ applies to Larkmead staff as well as Larkmead students. Colleagues at Larkmead can be proud to be part of something special, making a real difference to the lives and life chances of our students. It is a rewarding place to work as part of a mutually supportive team where everyone contributes. Personal, professional and career development is a fundamental part of working at Larkmead, which starts with our comprehensive induction programme. Our thoughtful approach to wellbeing means that staff have the support and challenge to succeed and advance.
Our induction programmes for all new colleagues are carefully planned to give you the practical strategies, advice and guidance you need to support your successful start at Larkmead. This induction work is sustained into your early weeks and months at Larkmead, with Leadership Team and line managers providing support and an important point of contact. Continuous professional development is at the heart of our work at school. Our culture of research and reflection, supported by practical strategies and collaboration across teams, is backed up by access to a wide range of training and resources to suit your professional progress and growth in the classroom, as a leader or in whatever role you fulfil at Larkmead.
Larkmead is proud to be part of the Vale Academy Trust, working in partnership with King Alfred’s secondary school and six primary schools. This network of school provides colleagues from across Larkmead to collaborate with other schools, contributing to school improvement and expanding career opportunities. Collaboration is an important benefit of working at Larkmead, with students and staff benefitting from our work with the Abingdon Partnership of primary and secondary schools, our 6th Form consortium with two local secondary schools and Abingdon & Witney College as well as links with local independent schools, employers and other organisations.
Larkmead is a happy, ambitious and successful school. This is reflected in comments from successive Ofsted reports, most recently in 2019:
· The stimulating and caring ethos in the school enables pupils to make strong progress and achieve well.
· The school balances effectively the drive for excellence with the wellbeing of staff and pupils. Therefore, staff at your inclusive school trust and respect the school’s leadership. Morale is high and everyone at the school shares the determination to provide the best for each pupil
· Parents and carers and pupils speak highly of the school. Pupils behave very well at the school. They are kind and respectful towards each other and their teachers.
· Pupils’ well-being and personal development, including their mental health, have a high priority and are very well catered for at your school.
· Students are keen to learn. They cooperate very well with one another and their teachers.
We are a diverse community and greatly value the contribution that colleagues from different backgrounds and with different experiences bring to our school. If you are keen to be part of a school with clear, positive values and which adds positive value to our students and staff then we look forward to meeting you.
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