Trust Curriculum Adviser: Science
Tudor Grange Academy Worcester
Solihull
- Expired
- Salary:
- L9 - L13
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2021
- Apply by:
- 20 April 2021
Job overview
The role:
We seek an outstanding science specialist to be part of our successful multi academy trust. The successful candidate will lead on the continuous improvement of an ambitious and equitable Trust-wide science curriculum and work with science leaders in schools to ensure this curriculum is well-implemented. The role will also involve quality assurance, research, coaching and mentoring of science teachers and leaders, and working with others to ensure that children benefit from excellent science teaching in all our academies.
Key responsibilities
In order to improve the quality of provision in science in academies throughout the Trust, you will:
• Review and improve the Trust science curriculum.
• Evaluate the quality of provision within science departments.
• Provide mentoring, coaching, and professional development to science teachers and leaders across the Trust.
• Identify and share best practice in science teaching across the Trust.
• Oversee the work of three secondary assessment leads (one for each science), ensuring the assessments they set are robust and comprehensive.
• Work with individual academies as appropriate to ensure high quality recruitment, selection and retention of science staff.
In all these areas you will need to be tactful and assertive: challenging and supporting schools in order to secure the best provision for children.
Where urgent improvement is required, you may be required to teach examination groups or provide leadership support to individual schools for short periods of time.
You will keep records of your work and report orally, and in writing, to individual schools, the school improvement team and trustees.
You will promote and safeguard the welfare of the children and young people that you are responsible for, or come into contact with.
The Trust
The Trust comprises eleven academies spread across the East and West Midlands: five secondaries, five primaries and one all-through academy. The Trust has a deep commitment to school-to-school support both within and beyond the Trust and as a result of this Tudor Grange Academy Solihull has been recently designated as a Teaching School Hub.
The Curriculum Adviser: Science will join a permanent School Improvement Team, working with curriculum and leadership advisers to improve the quality of provision in trust schools and our partner schools. The role will involve travel to different academies but will be based for at least some of the time in the Trust hub in Tudor Grange Academy, Solihull.
Application Process
Informal conversations or meetings can be arranged regarding this post and are most welcome. Please contact dgreen@tgacademy.org.uk
Completed applications must be submitted to Claire Maclean, via Dot Green, P.A. to the CEO, by 3.00pm on Tuesday 20th April, via email to dgreen@tgacademy.org.uk . Interviews will be held on Friday, 23rd April 2021.
Contract type
Applications considered for both full and part time working (at least three days a week). Flexible working arrangements available.
The recruitment process is robust in seeking to establish the commitment of candidates to support the school’s measures to safeguard children and to identify, deter or reject people who might pose a risk of harm to children or are otherwise unsuited to work with them. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check. All applications will be considered on their merit and the post will be offered subject to the usual health and criminal record clearance. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About Tudor Grange Academy Worcester
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Tudor Grange Academy has quickly developeded a reputation as a school that is truly in the community. We opened on September 1st 2009 and with the support of the outstanding sponsor school Tudor Grange School, Solihull, we have made great strides forward.
The ethos of the Academy is built around a set of core values:
- Meeting the needs of every student
- Quality in all that we do
- Raising horizons
- Blending tradition and innovation
- The whole is greater than the parts
- Inclusive and collaborative
The Academy provides a broad, balanced, innovative and motivating curriculum, individually tailored to the needs of each student. We are always outward-facing, because learning in the home and the community is as important as learning in the classroom and because we want our students to be active members of their local, national and international communities.
We know that everyone is different & whatever their flair or talent, we prioritise developing their aspirations through new experiences. We dedicate an afternoon a week for most students to pursue new experiences or access the time, people and resources they need to be able to excel in their chosen field through our skills, action and service curriculum.
The students at the Academy are constantly stretched with problem-solving tasks demanding higher-order thinking and new applications of prior learning. Though we feel that the students need to be aware of the individual disciplines of subjects we are careful to organise our curriculum so that they are able to recognise links between their learning and see the relevance of the skills they are developing in real-life contexts.
Central to the Academy is the college structure which has a focus on building a culture of success where achievement is highly valued, celebrated and rewarded. The five college structure allows us to create `schools within the school' so that students really feel that they are a part of their learning community and so that we are alert to and able to respond to the ever-changing needs of every individual in the Academy.
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