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Head of Faculty - Social Science

Head of Faculty - Social Science

Welling School

Bexley

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Salary:
MPS/UPS (Outer London) + TLR 1.4
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2021
Apply by:
18 May 2021

Job overview


Job Title:  Head of Faculty - Social Science

Start Date: September 2021

Deadline: 18 May 2021 - 10.00 am

Interviews: 21 May 2021

Location: Welling School – City Region

Scale: MPS/UPS (Outer London) plus TLR 1.4, £9,950 per annum

Appointment:  Full Time & Permanent


About Us:

Our vision is simple – to ensure that all of our students achieve beyond our expectations and flourish as confident learners with the highest aspirations, ready for a bright and successful future and ready for the world in which they will work and live. We are relentless in our pursuit of the very best for all our students. We understand challenges but do not accept them as limitations.

Welling School is an all ability, co-educational 11-18 school, located in the London borough of Bexley. As well as serving our local community we welcome students from a diverse range of backgrounds and areas. Each of them bringing their own part to make up the Welling School Community.   We are proud to be part of The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) which is one of the largest Multi Academy Trusts in South East England with over 40 Primary and Secondary Academies in the TKAT family.  As well as ensuring our students are knowledgeable and confident at Welling our shared values are to be:

Ambitious 

Kind

Active


See our website for further information about the school www.wellingschool-tkat.org

 

 The Role:

We are looking to appoint an inspirational and dynamic leader of Social Science to lead and manage staff, students and the curriculum to secure outstanding outcomes for all our students, especially those that need us even more.

You will have a proven record of raising attainment and accelerating progress. The length of your previous experience as a leader is less important to us than your clear vision of what can be achieved for our students and your team of committed and dedicated staff as well as your ability to motivate and inspire.

This newly created faculty and leadership role will bring additional capacity to our relentless drive for excellence. The faculty will comprise Sociology, Psychology, Criminology, Health and Social Care, Childcare and Law. Working with teachers and leaders of these departments the Head of Faculty will ensure students’ continued success with a focus on curriculum innovation and excellent teaching and learning. Student engagement and our shared expectations are high. Social Science subjects are popular choices for students in examination year groups - especially at KS5 where student intake is expanding exponentially.

Our new colleague will have an unstinting belief that every young person, whatever their starting point or circumstances can make and sustain exceptional progress and that our purpose is to change lives.

You will have access to on-going development opportunities and the support of a forward thinking, successful multi-academy trust. You will be joining a team of strong and experienced school leaders who will do whatever it takes to help you to succeed in your new and exciting role.

As well as having a passion for young people and their futures our colleague will:

  • be a dynamic professional with a desire for rapidly improving standards
  • be an outstanding classroom teacher with a specialism in one or more of the faculty subjects 
  • have a track record of delivering clear impact on standards, attainment and progress
  • bring an unwavering commitment to doing whatever it takes
  • have the ability to engage, inspire and build excellent relationships with both students and staff
  • know how to balance holding colleagues to account with supporting them and helping them to be brilliant teachers.


This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly ambitious team of staff and make a real impact on our students’ lives. The successful candidate will have the chance to teach across the full age and ability range up to A level. 

Contact Information:

Informal discussions and/or visits are actively encouraged.  To arrange a visit or discuss the post, please contact Victoria Edwards, HR Adviser on 020 8304 8531 or email victoria.edwards@wellingschool-tkat.org.  The job description and person specification can be downloaded below.


Safeguarding 

TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

 

Equal Opportunities

TKAT is committed to equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic for example race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. All applications are treated on merit. This includes applications from individuals wishing to work full time, part-time or on a flexible basis.


Visits to the school prior to application are possible and will be Covid secure.




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About Welling School

Thank you for taking the time to consider applying for the post advertised at Welling School.  The successful candidate for this post will be a teacher who can take their love of teaching and use it to inspire and motivate students to achieve or exceed their absolute potential.  

At Welling School our mission is to achieve high standards and fulfil the expectations of all students of all abilities and from diverse backgrounds.  We passionately believe that every child does matter and that they deserve to enjoy their learning experience with us.  Our dedicated staff place students' interests at the centre of everything they do, ensuring that students have high aspirations and are able to reach their full potential.  Our 'Welling Ways' engenders the values of nurturing the whole child to be an inclusive citizen in preparation for their future life and work.

Welling School is located in the Borough of Bexley, just 25 minutes outside of Central London with excellent transport links.  Our co-educational 11-18 students can study a broad range of subjects through our innovative curriculum.  We are an oversubscribed Academy with a Visual Arts Specialism that has gained a national reputation for being at the cutting edge of contemporary practice in art.   In February 2015 Ofsted judged the school to be good in every category, including the 6th form, where many of our students choose to stay to continue their studies.  We are part of the TKAT family, one of the largest multi-academy Trust's in the South East of England, who's ultimate aim is to ensure that educational standards are driven up through the provision of outstanding teaching, leadership and learning for all. The Trust CPD programmes provide additional training opportunities to work alongside the school's excellent in-house training programmes.

We have excellent facilities and continue to invest in resources to enhance our students learning.  We have a rich and full range of extra curricular activities including a school choir, sports clubs, STEM club, reading club and other performing arts and curriculum based activities, as well as our educational trips and visits and charity expeditions.

If you share our vision and values, then we would be very pleased to hear from you.  I encourage you to make an appointment to visit the school so that you can see Welling 'at work'.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Rob Pett

Headteacher

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