Lead Practitioner History
Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
Blackburn with Darwen
- Expired
- Salary:
- Lead Practitioner Scale LP2 –LP6 (£41,167 - £45,435)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2019
- Apply by:
- 20 May 2019
Job overview
Join us on our journey towards outstanding.
Working in partnership with St Patrick’s National Teaching School, Our Lady & St John Catholic College is an 11-16 Voluntary Aided School enjoying ‘rapid improvement’ in our pursuit of excellence. We are seeking to appoint a successful, highly motivated and dynamic candidate to join our Humanities team as a Lead Practitioner of History. You will be joining a dynamic team and play a key role in the strategic development of both schools at Leadership level.
The successful candidate will:
• Be an outstanding classroom practitioner.
• Aspire to be a potential Specialist Leader in Education.
• Be passionate about student achievement and aspirations.
• Have successful experience of improving standards.
• Be able to inspire colleagues and get the best from others.
• Show commitment to the school’s vision and Catholic ethos.
• Be able to show they have secured high results with your own teaching classes.
An application pack can be found on our website or can be obtained by e-mail from Mrs C Taylor (ctaylor2@olsj.blackburn.sch.uk)
Closing date for applications is Monday 20th May.
“Our Lady and St John’s is an Outstanding Catholic School… where pupils are given opportunities to flourish as individuals and where staff are empowered to continuously improve” Section 48 Inspection 2017.
“We are like a family here” student feedback to inspectors.
Our Lady & St John Catholic College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.
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About Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
- Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
- North Road, Blackburn
- Lancashire
- BB1 1PY
- United Kingdom
Our Lady and St John is an 11-16 Catholic Voluntary Aided School situated in Blackburn and part of Salford Diocese. Our strengths are our staff and our students. We have a great team spirit in school and support each other to improve and succeed. As one of our students said to inspectors: "We are like a family here." We have staff and students of various faiths, but all are committed to our school values of Unity, Faith, Truth, Justice, Forgiveness and Industry. These values are routed in our Catholic faith which is about educating the whole child, seeing each individual as sacred and welcoming everyone regardless of gender, faith, ethnicity or sexuality.
We have an excellent CPD programme, using high quality twilights and instructional coaching approaches to support all of our staff to improve. Shared planning time is allocated in the school day to reduce workload and raise standards. Consequently, our curriculum planning and implementation is improving all the time. We also have an extensive extra-curricular programme that is built around timetabled clubs to support staff to contribute without impacting on their work / life balance.
Our support for staff and students is a real strength of the school. We have excellent pastoral provision and a well-established programme to support the mental health of staff and students called the "Healthy Heads" strategy. We have an active staff welfare group who arrange social events and support staff at times of personal difficulty. Our staff enjoy working here and would love to welcome you to our team if you are successful in an application.
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