Director of Teaching and Learning
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Westminster School
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024 or January 2025
- Apply by:
- 15 May 2024
Job overview
Westminster School is looking for a Director of Teaching and Learning (DTL) to join our Senior Management Committee (SMC) on a full-time basis.
On a day-to-day basis, the DTL will principally support the academic progress of all pupils, working with the SMC, Housemasters, Heads of Department and the Learning Development Department. The DTL will be committed to the continued development of excellent teaching and the sharing of best practice, by supporting and managing the professional development of teaching staff.
Strategically, they will also assist the SMC with the planning and implementation of the introduction of girls into the Fifth Form (Year 9) from 2028. In addition to this, the DTL will have a teaching commitment of up to 40% (maximum 12 ppw).
We are looking for an organised, personable and inspiring individual, with previous experience of management within a school environment, ideally within a pastoral setting (e.g. Head of Department / Head of House, etc). They will demonstrate a thorough understanding of SEND issues and regulations, and will possess knowledge of quality assurance, including the procedures and processes necessary to ensure the delivery of high-quality education.
Accommodation may be available for the successful candidate, which will be discussed upon appointment. The role also has an associated responsibility allowance.
Westminster is one of the UK’s leading academic institutions and is the only ancient London school to occupy its original site. Situated close to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, the School has a special atmosphere.
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The deadline for applications is midday, Wednesday 15th May 2024.
Interviews will take place w/c Monday 20th May 2024.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation.
The School is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is the perfect environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. It is important also that pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led Societies take place every week at the School and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in the local community, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to nurture each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.’
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