Associate Assistant Headteacher & Subject Leader for English
Sir James Smith's School, Camelford, Cornwall, PL32 9UJThis job expired on 13 May 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
13 May 2024 at 1:33pm
Date listed
2 May 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale L7 to L11 - £54,815 to £60,487
What skills and experience we're looking for
Sir James Smith’s School are looking to appoint a full time, permanent
Associate Assistant Headteacher & Subject Leader for English to commence
1st September 2024.
Sir James Smith’s is a mixed 11-16 comprehensive, situated on the North Cornish Coast between Bude and Wadebridge, close to stunning beaches and countryside. We are looking to appoint an excellent and highly motivated full time Associate Assistant Headteacher & Subject Leader for English to join our well-resourced department. The successful candidate will be passionate about teaching and learning in English and will have the ability to motivate students and develop staff to share that enthusiasm.
As Subject Leader, you will be able to inspire effective teaching and learning within the department and foster a climate of collective responsibility for students’ success.
The English department has its own suite of rooms, each equipped with an interactive whiteboard and visualiser. The department also has its own dedicated suite of laptops. In addition, the department makes extensive use of the Learning Resource Centre which includes the library, flexible learning space and IT facilities. All teachers are provided with their own laptop.
We are looking for a teacher committed to ensuring all students make good progress in their learning. The successful candidate will be able to teach consistently engaging lessons tailored to meet the needs of all students. They will be joining a strong team of teachers and a school committed to developing staff and students to their full potential.
We would like you:
- to inspire effective teaching and learning;
- to be capable of outstanding teaching;
- to have high expectations of yourself and our students;
- to be a team player with an abundance of energy and enthusiasm.
We can offer you the opportunity to work:
- in an English Department that is passionate about achievement for all pupils;
- with fantastic students who enjoy a dynamic and engaging curriculum;
- within a diligent team of excellent professionals who have a wealth of expertise and experience;
- with a driven and inspirational department in pursuit of excellence;
- with a strong induction programme tailored to your experience and needs;
- with relevant external organisations to continuously drive standards forward;
- collaboratively within a very supportive environment where professional development is an essential aspect of our daily practice;
- to develop your career;
- to create outstanding student experiences in English learning for all.
As Associate Assistant Headteacher, you will provide professional leadership for the school which secures its success and improvement, with a whole school strategic focus on literacy, reading & oracy, ensuring high quality teaching and learning, for all students and improved standards of learning and achievement. In addition to those professional responsibilities which are common to all classroom teachers in the school, and which are outlined in the accompanying job description, the postholder’s key accountability will be:
- lead and co-ordinate approaches across the school to ensure the literacy, reading and oracy needs of all students are met holding staff accountable for the quality of provision;
- to ensure students feel safe and valued and that the literacy team makes a significant and sustained contribution to the wider school provision:
- To design, implement and monitor the delivery of the English curriculum:
- To generate and make a significant contribution to the provision of high-quality teaching and learning at whole school level.
If you feel that you have the energy, passion, resilience and drive to be part of making Sir James Smith’s School outstanding, we would love to have you on our team. Visits to the School are welcomed and encouraged.
What the school offers its staff
Sir Jim’s is an oversubscribed, inclusive 11—16 secondary, rated a strong Good by OFSTED in October 2022 and we are working hard to provide an outstanding learning experience for all our pupils against a background of challenge presented by austerity, mental health and wider societal pressures and the standards agenda.
We can
offer you:
- a talented and dedicated hardworking team of staff who know their students well;
- enthusiastic, friendly and engaged pupils who are keen to learn;
- an experienced, involved and strongly supportive Local Governance Committee that sits across all the schools in the trust;
- a distinctive and inclusive ethos based on co-operative values;
- a well-cared for school and grounds set in pleasant rural surroundings;
- an extensive extra-curricular programme;
- an able senior leadership team;
- the opportunity to develop further as an effective leader and take on a high profile role in a developing multi-academy trust;
- an opportunity to lead the school at a crucial time of change and development, to build on its reputation and move it from Good to Excellent;
- supportive parents/carers and strong community engagement;
- an established school with excellent partnerships working locally and beyond.
Commitment to safeguarding
Sir James Smith's School 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. The successful candidate will be subject to all pre-employment checks necessary to meet Safer Recruitment requirements, including a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and references.
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About Sir James Smith's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 601 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Sir James Smith's School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@nclt.academy
- Phone number
- 01840 213274
Sir James Smith’s is part of North Cornwall Learning Trust. Apart from being a ‘Good’ school, Sir Jim’s is also a great place to work. Visitors, including Ofsted, comment on the friendly and supportive atmosphere. Staff and students are happy and enjoy their time at school.
We are a smaller than average co-educational comprehensive school, serving a large rural hinterland in North Cornwall. It’s a fantastic place to live if you like the outdoors. Our extensive rural catchment area of 100 square miles includes 8 partner primary schools though we attract students from many others. The dispersed settlement pattern means approximately 70% of students travel daily by bus. North Cornwall is one of the least sparsely populated areas in England and Wales thanks to the glorious Bodmin Moor.
At present we have 38 teachers, and 40 non-teaching staff including 4 technicians, 1 Librarian, 8 admin assistants and 7 classroom assistants. The Local Governance Committee work closely with staff, as do various support agencies. The small size of the school means that we all know the students very well and staff work together effectively. This is a school on a humane scale where personal relationships matter.
We have a "continental day". This means an earlier start - at 8.10 am for staff and 8.25 am for students. Students have one year assembly per week. There are 5 one-hour lessons and 2 breaks of 20 and 30 minutes. The main part of the day ends at 2.30 pm. On Mondays there are meetings; on Wednesdays Tuesdays and Thursdays, extra-curricular activities and late buses; on Fridays many staff go home a little earlier!
Arranging a visit to Sir James Smith's School
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