Team Leader Science

We are looking to appoint a dynamic, talented and enthusiastic professional to lead our science Team.  We require an outstanding practitioner and leader of learning who can successfully lead, develop, challenge and inspire a team of talented teachers.

The successful candidate will have oversight of and responsibility for all of the disciplines within the curriculum area.  The candidate will have a real determination and vigour to deliver stimulating and innovative lessons and will be keen to get involved with activities in our wider academy community showing commitment to our values and ethos.

You will have:-

• A passion for the success of students and a belief in their huge individual potential
• A determination to fulfil and exceed your own potential
• An enthusiasm for teaching with rigour reaching the highest possible standards
• A willingness to face new challenges
• A real ability to innovate and strive for continuous improvement
• A hunger for both autonomy and accountability

And will want to be part of an organisation that:-

• Puts the children of the Academy and its people first
• Judges its success by the success of its students
• Supports, values and encourages its staff to be the best they can be
• Understands the challenges faced by teachers

This is an exciting opportunity to join an academy that is rapidly improving and was recognised in our most recent OfSTED inspection (November 2019).

Some of your key responsibilities will include:-

• To raise standards of student attainment and achievement within the whole curriculum area and to monitor and support student progress
• To be accountable for student progress and development within the subjects of the curriculum area
• To develop and enhance the teaching practice of others and encourage and inspire them to excel as practitioners
• To ensure the provision of an appropriately broad, ambitious and well-sequenced science curriculum
• To effectively lead and manage all resources allocated to the subject area

The full details can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

We are looking for you if you have:-

• Qualified Teacher Status and relevant degree
• Substantial, recent and successful experience of teaching across the secondary age range
• Ability to monitor, evaluate and develop teaching and learning within the subject area
• Effective, sensitive and clear communication skills to a range of audiences
• The ability to successfully present, inform, interact, consult and negotiate
• The ability to lead, develop, share and realise strategic plans for the subject area
• High expectations of students and colleagues
• Experience of, and commitment to, the education of the whole person promoting personal development as well as social and emotional well-being alongside academic development

Closing Date:  0900 Tuesday 20th April 2021

Interviews : tbc

No agencies thank you

Safeguarding Recruitment Statement:

The Samworth Church Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This appointment is subject to the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment checks, including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.