About Us
Harris Academy Battersea is a mixed state secondary school serving a truly comprehensive community in the heart of London. We are an Ofsted 'Outstanding' school with a track record of delivering fantastic outcomes year on year for our students. In 2023, Ofsted visited the academy and judged us as remaining 'outstanding', commenting on our highly ambitious curriculum, the exceptionally high quality of education provided and noted that behaviour in the school is very strong.
Our Academy is centred on the values of Knowledge, Integrity and Resilience and these underpin the way we work for both students and staff. Our staff are inclusive, diverse and committed to our mission: we develop aspirational young people to thrive in a changing world.
HABS offers a broad, academic and challenging curriculum founded on six key curriculum aims:
* To develop deep, long-lasting knowledge
* To develop students into accomplished readers, writers and orators
* To provide experiences within and beyond the classroom that enrich learning and ensure students can make informed choices about their futures
* To equip students to challenge injustice in all its forms
* To enable students to understand how they learn
* To support students to reflect on their choices and values to improve themselves and their community
These aims underpin all elements of our curriculum, and we see our core academic curriculum and wider personal development curriculum as intrinsically linked. All staff at the Academy contribute to the personal development of our students through their roles as tutors and through their contributions to the wider life of the academy.
A thriving school can only function with fantastic staff, and our vision is to make teaching at HABS both enjoyable and sustainable. The wellbeing of staff underpins every decision we make, and we seek to ensure that every member of staff can enjoy a work-life-balance enabling them to bring their best to work each day.
At HABS, professional growth and development is central to our mission. Our professional development motto is 'improve, not prove' and leaders are relentlessly focussed on supporting staff in getting even better through a wide range of internal and external training opportunities.
As a part of the Harris Federation, all staff in the Academy benefit from being part of our network of more than fifty primary and secondary academies across London. Vibrant networks of subject experts meet regularly and teachers can access bespoke support from our central teams of consultants.
For more information about what we do and who we are, we encourage you to visit our website and careers site to find out more
Main Areas of Responsibility
The main responsibilities of your role will be:
* To establish outstanding provision within the subject area. This to include all programmes, systems and structures taking account of the academy's vision and values leading to outstanding teaching and learning.
* To be accountable for student progress and development in the subject area across KS3, KS4 and Sixth form, including meeting student achievement targets for subject areas which are agreed by the Principal and the Governing Body.
* To ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the subject area through continuously, developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.
* To ensure the provision of an appropriately engaging, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students in the subject area, in accordance with the academy aims and policies, as determined by the Principal and Governing Body.
* To ensure that all school policies and procedures are implemented and applied consistently by all colleagues in the subject area.
* To effectively and efficiently manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and physical resources across the subject area, with the support and working alongside the MLG/ALG.
* To lead development for literacy, within subject areas, to raise standards of Literacy across the Academy.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will:
* Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree, and, ideally, further qualifications and evidence of continuous self-development and updated knowledge in relevant areas
* Have a minimum of three years' teaching experience, ideally including KS5 and in multi-ethnic urban schools
* Understand the theory and practice of effective teaching and learning
* Have knowledge of National Curriculum requirements at KS3, KS4, and KS5
* Have experience of delivering high quality INSET to teaching staff within subject area, and of using coaching as a model for ensuring ongoing professional development
* Ideally, be able to show evidence of leading, supporting and managing others, both individuals and teams, ensuring high quality performance
* Be able to prove their success in raising achievement as a subject leader or classroom practitioner
* Have successful experience of processes of monitoring, evaluation and review that provide performance data that can be used to improve the quality of teaching and learning
* Have a good level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement
* Have recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development
* Have ideas of how Language, Literacy and Numeracy can be used across the curriculum to raise standards
* Have experience of embedding innovative strategies for improving teaching and learning and of managing and implementing change successfully
Professional Development & Benefits
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.