What skills and experience we're looking for
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• To deliver the provision for Social Sciences including planning schemes of work, and ensuring that teaching and administration resources are in place
• To ensure that standards of teaching and delivery are as high as possible
• To lead other teachers to provide the best possible learning experience for our students
• To undertake lead internal verifier training so to ensure the effective co-ordination of appropriate aspects of the subject
• To teach designated classes according to the requirements of the school timetable.
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• All middle leaders are expected to contribute to the following processes:
• The safety and safeguarding of students
• Continuous drive for the improvement of all aspects of the school
• Lead by example in teaching and learning
• Strategic planning
• Standards monitoring, performance tracking and intervention
• Personnel leadership/management
• Effective deployment of resources
• Supervision
• Administration/Co-ordination
• Promotion of the school
• Celebrating success
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• Key Areas of Accountability
• The postholder will be accountable for:
• Ensuring standards are as high as possible in Social Sciences.
• Providing professional subject leadership to other teachers to ensure high quality teaching and learning and consistent implementation and improvement of courses/schemes of work.
• Ensuring that robust procedures are in place to monitor the quality of teaching and learning outcomes.
• Implementing effective assessment policies within the framework of those for the whole school.
• Contributing significantly to planning (both short and long term) through the annual development plan which contributes to the School Development Plan to reflect both the department and school’s commitment to improvement, high achievement, effective teaching and learning, and inclusion.
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What the school offers its staff
Generous Teachers' Pension Scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Supportive Senior Leadership Team
Bike to Work Scheme
Tech Scheme
Free Annual Flu Vaccinations
Free Onsite Parking
Free Tea and Coffee at Breaktimes for all staff
Wellbeing INSET days
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding at Monk’s Walk takes precedence over any other activity in the school. It’s vitally important to us that students feel safe in school so they can learn and thrive. As part of the recruitment process, we will ask about safeguarding students and obviously questions about candidates’ suitability to act as tutor. References will be sought and an enhanced criminal records check will be undertaken for this position.