Q3 Academy Tipton has high expectations for all students and is one of nine schools in the Mercian Academy Trust. We focus on our goal to be incredible in everything that we do, in order to help students to: Know more, Do more and Achieve more. Our values of Kindness, Ambition, Resilience and Respect run through all that we do, representing our large and diverse community and supporting upholding our high standards for all.
We have a rare opportunity to join our incredible school as Assistant Director of English. You will be an ambitious, resilient, motivated and compassionate leader with a proven track record of outstanding teaching and raising standards of both students and other staff. The school is on a rapid improvement journey and you will need to be fully committed to investing time, effort and expertise with all teams at the school to further contribute to this journey.
English is taught up to and including A Level, where it is increasingly popular. As Assistant Director, you will be part of the school's middle leadership team, supporting the Director of English to deliver an incredible curriculum and enhance life chances for students. You will particularly take a lead on the quality of education in English.
You will be joining a large and collaborative staff team with significant CPD and well-being benefits. As a school, we continue to focus on how we support staff to make sure that they can support the students in the best ways possible. You may be new to leadership, or more experienced, but we are committed to supporting you every step of the way; we are a genuine team.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• To be responsible for adding value to every learner in each teaching group benchmarked against national criteria and data.
• To plan and quality assure curriculum planning and delivery to ensure that all students are appropriately challenged and supported to achieve their full potential.
• To support colleagues in the improvement of the quality of teaching and learning, in line with the whole school mission for students to: know more, do more, achieve more.
• Identify opportunities for wider-curriculum contribution in English.
• To work as part of an exceptional area that ensures creative and innovative learning and teaching occurs in every lesson.
• Contribute to school improvement.
Interview's will be held w/c 10th February 2025
If you are incredible, and want to help our students be incredible too, we look forward to hearing from you and joining us on our journey to be the absolute best we can be.
We welcome and encourage visits to our school to see us in action.
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Pre-employment checks include an enhanced disclosure and barring service check as a requirement of this post.
Our Safeguarding Policy is available on our website, and we encourage applicants to review it before applying. This position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check (formerly CRB) under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Further details regarding this check are available from the school or by visiting