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Faculty Director- Spanish
Faculty Director- Spanish
Swindon Academy01/05/2024
At Swindon Academy, we pride ourselves on a team of staff who are supportive, friendly, and dedicated to providing the very best teaching and learning for our students. Staff across the academy set a culture of high expectations and continuous improvement for students which, in turn, is reflected in the emphasis we place on continuing professional development (CPD) for our staff. We have made significant, sustained progress at GCSE and are proud to be the top performing school in Swindon for progress over the last six years. Swindon Academy was the first all-though academy to open in the UK and has over 1,900 pupils from the age of 2 to 19. The school is situated in purpose-built £25 million premises, benefiting from excellent, state-of-the-art facilities, and situated within the beautiful county of Wiltshire, within commuting distance for Bristol, Bath and Oxford. United Learning is a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. United Learning is a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. United Learning schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. The subject specialists, Group-wide intranet, own curriculum, and online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’. We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit, and we are open to discussing flexible working options. United Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All positions are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online check. Here at United Learning, we are committed to ensuring our employees feel valued and appreciated. Because we are a group, we can reward you better than any school could alone, and this includes your employee benefits. is some information about the benefits available to United Learning.
Job details
Job details
Salary£32,850 - 48,050 plus TLR £9,727 per annumContractual hours37.5BasisFull TimeRegionSwindonJob category/typeOther MFLDate posted21/03/2024Job referenceREQ000988
Job description
Job description
Are you looking to improve the life chances of pupils?
Do you want to work in a top performing school?
Faculty Director-Spanish
An Exciting Opportunity to join Swindon Academy. We are looking to appoint a highly motivated and ambitious colleague as Director T&L (Curriculum Leader) Spanish. With superb facilities, and a spectacular building, you will join a school that has a genuine commitment to Spanish with outstanding outcomes.
Salary: £32,850 - £48,050 per annum with TLR £9,727 per annum
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Permanent
Start Date: September 2024
We are an OFSTED good rated all-through academy (3-18) and part of the country’s largest Multi Academy Trust; United Learning. With a progress 8 score of 0.67 in 2023, we have been the top Secondary school in Swindon for GCSE progress since 2016 and we became the top school for attainment in Swindon for GCSE in 2022.
We believe that it is our mission to ensure that all pupils can flourish both academically and personally in an aspirational and supportive environment so that they go on to live happy and fulfilling lives in the future. We pride ourselves on having the highest of expectations of everyone, both students and staff, and passionate about building a strong staff team who work together to drive success for our pupils. We are committed to providing a world-class education that improves the life chances of students, at whatever stage of learning, where hard work, kindness and responsibility are our shared values.
Located in the North of Swindon, we are within commuting distance of Bristol, Bath, Oxford and Reading and the beautiful surrounding Cotswolds Hills. The school boasts superb facilities, a spectacular building and a genuine commitment to ensuring that the Academy is a great place for pupils to come and learn and staff to come and teach.
We are looking to appoint someone who:
1. Is aligned to our school’s vision and values. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here. Our culture is outlined in our Swindon Academy Way document attached to the advert.
2. Is truly committed to making a difference to the life-chances of students and believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs.
3. Is a well-qualified, excellent teacher and who demonstrates a passion for their subject, for learning and has the highest of expectations in the classroom.
4. Is committed to their own professional development and continuous improvement.
5. Has energy and demonstrates commitment to all aspects of school life.
6. Is a dynamic leader with high expectations and a commitment to improvement.
7. Can demonstrate excellent organisational and inter-personal skills and the ability to lead in a team.
Swindon Academy can offer you:
8. The opportunity to work in the best school in Swindon.
9. An exceptional salary, above the maintained sector by 5% on average.
10. A strong whole-school team of hardworking, supportive and friendly colleagues.
11. A culture and ethos of sky-high expectations.
12. A rigorous whole-school behaviour system that allows teachers and pupils to benefit from disruption-free learning.
13. A fully resourced curriculum with centralised, shared units of work and resources.
14. Whole-class feedback marking policies and retrieval practice strategies aimed at supporting the work-life balance of teachers.
15. A dedicated team of non-teaching pastoral and SEN staff who work with teachers to support pupils.
16. A research driven (no fad) in-house professional development program utilising best practice and evidence-based teaching and learning initiatives.
17. A coaching culture, where every teacher is supported to develop professionally.
18. Access to the best professional development bespoke to all levels of leadership.
19. A ‘hands-on’ and committed Senior Leadership Team, completely determined to create an environment in which teachers can get on with their core role: delivering excellent lessons.
20. Huge personal satisfaction in your work as a leader & teacher
If you are looking for the next step in your career, and would like to find out more, please email Karen Wright at @swindon- - Principal. She will arrange a visit to the Academy or an informal call to talk about the role.