Faculty Leader - English
Lakelands Academy
Ellesmere Shropshire
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS & TLR 1
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2018
- Apply by:
- 1 October 2017
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well qualified English graduate to lead a proactive, highly motivated and supportive team of English staff. This role requires an experienced, driven professional with a proven record of Outstanding teaching and experience of translating a strong vision into successful outcomes. The successful candidate must possess the ambition for further promotion, beyond that of a middle leader, and be eager to contribute to the whole life of the academy. The academy is happy to reward the candidate with the right complement of skills accordingly.
This post provides an excellent opportunity for a dynamic middle leader to lead a team of professionals who achieve excellent GCSE results. The GCSE outcomes for English in 2017 were outstanding: 79% achieving Grade 4+ and 57% achieving Grade 5+; English Literature results were equally strong. The successful candidate will be someone who is able to build on this success, bringing about sustainable improvements through a relentless focus on high quality Teaching and Learning, as well as curriculum innovation.
If you would like to join us and become part of a strong team of professionals totally committed to the future of our young people, we would like to hear from you.
To apply please complete the application form attached. If you require further information please either visit our website www.lakelandsacademy.org.uk or contact Alison Skone at the academy via telephone on 01691 622543.
We would encourage applicants to arrange a visit to see us in action and also for prospective candidates to speak with the Acting Head teacher, Mr Pyburn, about the role please contact Alison Skone on the contact details above to arrange a suitable time and date for this meeting.
This Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).
Closing Date for all Applications: Midday, Monday 2nd October 2017
Interview to be held: Week commencing, Monday 9th October 2017
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About Lakelands Academy
Lakelands Academy serves the expanding town of Ellesmere and a rural catchment area surrounded by beautiful Shropshire landscape, often referred to as the ‘Shropshire Lake District’. The town and surrounding villages offer a huge variety of attractions, activities and experiences and benefit from good communication links with the West Midlands, Manchester, Liverpool and Chester all of which are under an hour away by car.
We are a successful, popular and well-respected 11-16 academy with a unique ethos; believing that creating an atmosphere of trust and care is so conducive to effective learning. Visitors often remark on the ‘family feel’ of our academy and how welcoming staff and students are.
At Lakelands Academy, we aim to get the best for and from each student. We intend to enable each student to realise his or her full academic, creative and physical potential and to develop social and moral values. Our aim is to prepare students to be successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens.
Our Academy is a community in which students, staff and parents are part of a happy, safe and caring environment. The academy was last inspected by Ofsted in June 2012 and was judged to be a “good school” where “relationships between teachers and students are strong and students are highly motivated to do well”.
We are a supportive learning organisation, not just for our students but also for our staff. We continually reflect on our own practice as teachers/leaders and recognise that we can all develop our professional skills, at any stage of our career. In doing so, we recognise that the most effective professional development occurs when teachers learn from, and with, each other.
Since converting to an academy in December 2012 funding secured from the Education Funding Agency has enabled the Academy realise its vision to embark on a programme of extension and site wide refurbishment to upgrade and extend the school’s facilities and significantly improve the school environment. This funding offers a unique opportunity for the academy to build on its current strengths and further improve the opportunities that are available to raise standards even higher whilst maintaining the same strong commitment to the highest academic standards.
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