Job Title: Leader of Learning – SCIENCE AND STEM
Client: Education Authority
Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: eb182c8c8cba
Job Views: 6
Posted: 01.03.2025
Expiry Date: 15.04.2025
Job Description:
Purpose:
To take overall responsibility to lead staff, students and parents in meeting the needs of all students within the SCIENCE AND STEM department in conjunction with subject teachers and in accordance with school policies, with specific responsibility in respect of students of all abilities at KS4 and KS5.
As a key member of the School Middle Leadership Team, the Leader of Learning: SCIENCE AND STEM will be expected to work collaboratively with their colleagues, sharing their ideas, skills and talents and contribute to the effective functioning of a highly motivated, cohesive team with a shared vision for the future of Belfast Model School for Girls and a sense of common purpose.
The Leader of Learning: SCIENCE AND STEM will play an important role in the school’s Middle Leadership Team (MLT) ensuring that the young people in the school experience the highest quality of learning provision from a highly skilled professional team of teachers and support staff, within a supportive, encouraging and disciplined environment.
Responsibilities:
* Promote and provide professional leadership and management for SCIENCE AND STEM within the school to secure high quality teaching and learning, effective use of resources, and the highest standards of outcomes and achievement for all students, in line with the School Improvement Plan (SIP).
* Lead by example, providing inspiration and motivation, embodying the vision and purpose of the school.
* Play an important role in promoting the ethos of the school.
* Promote excellence in teaching and learning and pastoral care within SCIENCE AND STEM, with a particular focus on KS4 and KS5.
* Play a proactive, positive role in promoting high standards in relation to attendance, punctuality, school work, homework and behaviour in class within the SCIENCE AND STEM department.
* Communicate and establish clear expectations and advice to SCIENCE AND STEM department staff in relation to learning programmes.
* Be available to attend relevant and linked school functions out of school hours.
Objectives:
* To raise continuously standards of student achievements in SCIENCE AND STEM at all levels.
* To foster enjoyment and satisfaction in the study of SCIENCE AND STEM by students.
* To enhance the quality of teaching and learning of SCIENCE AND STEM.
* To establish and maintain a culture of high expectations for all within SCIENCE AND STEM.
* To encourage and develop students’ awareness and capacity to use SCIENCE AND STEM skills and knowledge.
* To contribute to a whole school cross curricular approach to developing and improving LITERACY, NUMERACY, and SCIENCE AND STEM skills at all levels within school.
Principal Responsibility Areas:
* Strategic direction of SCIENCE AND STEM
* Teaching, learning and the curriculum
* Leading and managing staff
* Managing resources
Key Tasks:
* To establish a vision and development plans for SCIENCE AND STEM, with specific responsibility in respect of students of all abilities at KS4 and KS5.
* To establish, develop and implement policies and schemes of learning, assessment activities for SCIENCE AND STEM in line with recent inspection reports, research evidence and SIP.
* To monitor and evaluate the effects of subject policies and plans, establishing clear targets for improving and sustaining student achievement at KS4 and KS5.
* To lead SCIENCE AND STEM department curriculum development.
* To provide reports for the Board of Governors / Principal as requested.
* To promote and encourage a rich and diverse extra-curricular programme for SCIENCE AND STEM.
Leadership of:
* Departmental team
* Subject area schemes of learning
* Subject area resources for learning and teaching
* Subject area extracurricular and enrichment activities / clubs
* Target Setting
* Subject area assessment
* Student progress and intervention and support
* Student tracking and using data
* Quality assurance and self-evaluation (individual and team)
* Linked staff development and training
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