What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an inspirational and highly effective Curriculum Leader of Maths to join our very successful team. We offer the opportunity to work in a high quality, vibrant and caring environment where we share a rich vision for our pupils and for the community as a whole.
As the Curriculum Leader of Maths at St Patrick’s Catholic College you will drive improvement in teaching and learning and shape Maths provision. You will also network with other Maths departments within the Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust to share and receive examples of best practice.
The successful candidate must:
• Be fully committed to upholding and promoting the Catholic ethos of the school and Trust.
• Be an outstanding teacher with the motivation and capacity to become an outstanding leader.
• Be able to lead and motivate young people and colleagues.
• Be able to work with and take direction from the school's Senior Leadership Team and Trust Standards Officers and Directors.
• Be resilient, hard-working, committed to finding solutions and someone who is wholeheartedly focussed on transforming student outcomes.
• Show a commitment to innovation, creativity and inclusion.
• Be able to make a significant contribution to the wider school context.
• Be fully committed to promoting the vision of and working cooperatively with The Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust.
What the school offers its staff
St Patrick’s Catholic College is part of the Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust (NPCAT), a family of 38 schools and a sixth form from across the north of the Diocese of Middlesbrough. With 12,300 pupils and 1,500 staff, the Trust is now one of the North East’s and the UK’s largest Catholic Multi Academy Trusts.
Our school is committed to striving for excellence in all aspects of school life and nurturing links with the parish and the wider community. The Governors would like to employ a person who has a passion to make a difference to the lives of our children and their families, who is a good communicator with a real ability to inspire and motivate.
The school offers:
• A strong, supportive ethos.
• An Executive Headteacher and ambitious leadership team with exceptionally high expectations and a clear vision for the school.
• Happy, enthusiastic and friendly pupils, with a thirst for learning and success.
• Hard working and talented colleagues.
• A range of professional development opportunities.
• Supportive governors and parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.