Assistant Subject Leader of English
Graham School
North Yorkshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS plus TLR 2.3 (£6257)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2014
- Apply by:
- 6 May 2014
Job overview
Assistant Subject Leader of English, North Yorkshire
Graham School is a friendly and caring community school situated on the North Yorkshire coast of Scarborough. Our students play an essential and increasing role in our development and we strive to ensure each and every one achieves the best possible outcomes.
Our vision is simple, yet clear: "To support every student to achieve their full learning potential and thereby transform the life chances of our students". Following the appointment of our new Headteacher in January 2014, we have made significant headway on improving standards and delivering on this vision in order to work towards our goal of becoming a centre of excellence. Feedback from a recent HMI indicated that swift and decisive action has been taken since the last Ofsted inspection by a team of dedicated and determined leaders.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivational English specialist who will be committed to assisting with creating an ambitious, innovative and collegiate English department. We seek an inspirational practitioner with excellent curriculum knowledge and pedagogical practice, who has a desire to ensure the best life chances for all students. The successful candidate will possess a high level of expertise to inspire and engage both staff and students and will lead the strategic oversight of the development of English across the school.
We are looking for a colleague who:
- Has a high level of expertise in English with a track record in raising standards
- Is an excellent teacher with a track record of success
- Has the ability to evaluate the quality of teaching and learning
We offer:
- A highly skilled, committed, and supportive team
- An extra £2,000 of capitation in your first year to support specific departmental curriculum development
- The opportunity to gain the National Qualification Middle Leaders (NPQML) or the National Qualification Senior Leaders (NPQSL) depending on experience after your first year
- Leadership coaching to prepare you for your next move
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to work with our school in order to drive their personal career forward and share and develop new ideas to ensure each achieves its goals over the coming years.
To have an informal, confidential discussion and to find out how to apply, please contact Kate Murphy at Hays Education on 0113 200 3710 or at kate.Murphy@hays.com. Visits to the school are encouraged and warmly welcomed. These can be organised by contacting Hays Education.
The closing date for all applications is 8am on Tuesday 6th May
Interviews to be held on Monday 12th May
Graham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and all applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Woodlands Drive,
Scarborough,
North Yorkshire,
YO12 6QW
About Graham School
I am delighted you are interested in joining the team at Graham School. We have a highly ambitious, aspirational group of professionals who are raising standards and significantly improving the life chances of the young people of Scarborough and the Yorkshire Coast. I am delighted to be the Headteacher here and although there have been recent challenges, you could not find a more supportive, inclusive school to work in.
My staff team believe that learning conquers all and we are very much moving towards becoming the outstanding school that our young people and community deserve. Our school is a very special learning community filled with talented and creative staff, all of whom share my vision for excellence in teaching and learning and building character for our students.
It has been a year since Ofsted visited and in that time we have seen a positive transformation of almost every aspect of our work and last month we had a positive and very encouraging monitoring visit from Ofsted. We are now on one site, we’ve adopted a uniform that our students are proud to wear and improved our outcomes and attitudes for learning – no mean feat, but we are by no means complacent.
In 2019 we will join the Hope Learning Trust along with our coastal secondary partner, George Pindar School. Being part of a growing, successful multi-academy trust of both secondary and primary schools where we can share resources, develop our staff and support each other will bring huge improvements to our school improvement journey. Internally we have developed a strong CPD offer led by our Deputy Head for Teaching and Learning and we are able to take advantage of the SLE and NLE specialists that are part of Hope.
It is a privilege to lead Graham School. The school has a shared sense of purpose and a vision for success which inspires me on a daily basis. If you are appointed, you will join a truly aspirational body of professionals who really care about our young people. I encourage you to come and visit and learn more about us and thank you for taking the time to apply to join Graham School.
With kindest regards Emma Robins | Headteacher
Welcome to Graham School
Our motto ‘omnia vincit doctrina’ which means ‘learning conquers all’ underlies everything we do here at Graham School. We have high aspirations for our students and our coastal community. Being part of a coastal community which is starting to see the benefits of accessing funding through the North Yorkshire Opportunity Area is exciting and rewarding. Our students thrive on teaching that excites them and are enthused by teachers who believe that learning conquers all.
Graham School is part of the North Yorkshire Opportunity Area that is prioritising improvements to early years education and numeracy and literacy outcomes, alongside a drive to recruit and retain high-quality, motivated teachers to the area. Teachers on the North Yorkshire Coast will have unique opportunities to engage in additional professional and leadership development through this programme, as well as access to fully-funded national professional qualifications.
Why join our team?
The students at Graham School are a wonderful group of young people. They are lively, outgoing and have much to say for themselves, a characteristic we encourage! We believe they deserve an education that is outstanding, full of ambition, aspiration and character. That is what you commit to providing. If you come to work at Graham School, you will commit to providing our young people with a first-class education. The Scarborough community Scarborough is a learning community where great things are happening!
Graham School serves the town’s community and our staff travel to our stunning coastal setting from the East Riding, York and Hull, as well as from the local area. We are dedicated to being an outstanding employer. Our robust recruitment and selection process is designed to ensure that excellent professionals are appointed so that they drive attainment and raise standards in our progression to becoming a good and ultimately outstanding school.
Graham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. Our investment in staff The health and wellbeing of our employees is of high importance to us. We recognise our workforce perform at a high pace to ensure our children exceed expectations and achieve outstanding results.
We are passionate about nurturing and supporting our team throughout their career through providing tailored CPD programmes and in-house health and wellbeing provisions.
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