Main Areas of Responsibility
The purpose of your role will be:
1. To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students and to support a designated curriculum area as appropriate.
2. To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students as a teacher/form tutor.
3. To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
4. To contribute to raising standards of student attainment.
5. To share and support the academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
Your main areas of responsibility will fall under the areas of:
1. Operational and strategic planning (including lesson planning, developing resources and syllabuses, and contributing to the departmental plan).
2. Curriculum planning.
3. Staff development (including continuing professional development and engaging fully in the Performance Management Review process).
4. Quality assurance (including contributing to the process of monitoring and evaluating the subject area).
5. Management of information (including maintaining appropriate records and tracking student progress).
6. Communications with students, parents and other stakeholders.
7. Pastoral system (including being a form tutor to a selected group of students).
8. Teaching, ensuring a high-quality learning experience for students.
The pastoral TLR will also include responsibilities for attendance, behaviour and safeguarding.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will:
1. Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree, and, ideally, management training.
2. Demonstrate successful teaching of GCSE at good or better level.
3. Have experience of initiation and effective management of change.
4. Show evidence of raising achievement in present post and showing good value added for groups.
5. Knowledge of National curriculum requirements at KS3, KS4 and KS5.
6. Have good knowledge and understanding of current educational thinking.
7. Have good communication skills in speech and writing.
8. Display excellent organisational skills.
9. Be able to build and sustain professional standards and relationships with students.
10. Be able to contribute towards creating a safe and protective environment.
11. Understand the importance of having high expectations for all students, both of behaviour and academic achievement.
12. Understand inclusive provision and practices, which offer equality of access to the curriculum for all students, including special educational needs, English as an additional language and high achievers.
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 including access to a virtual GP, electric car scheme, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.
About Us
Harris Academy Orpington opened in September 2016, joining the highly successful Federation of Harris academies in London and the senior leaders here are experienced in creating and running great schools and that is what we are doing in BR5. We are a community school that serves families in and around Orpington and we are well on our way towards providing an outstanding education for the students who come here. We want our students to succeed and have choices in their lives; to take control of their futures and achieve beyond their dreams. We are ambitious, tenacious and enterprising and committed to helping our students succeed. Our work as a Health Science Specialist school, with students being given access to recognised professional qualifications, work experience and careers is unique and is designed to help and support the whole community who are regularly invited into the Academy to hear from guest speakers. We have the most incredible facilities; with brand new science labs, 3 Main Halls, Dance Studios, 3 Astro Turfs, Drama Studios, dedicated Art and DT blocks, we are incredibly proud of the work that our students do here. We have developed a curriculum that is ambitious and broad. We believe in the need to nurture an appreciation of human creativity and achievement and have designed a curriculum that does just that. We aim to ensure that every student is inspired and supported to achieve his/her personal best and learning comes first. Our motto is “Together We Can” and if you are interested in joining us, we would be very keen to meet you.
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