Head of Faculty – Maths

Based at Orion Eden Park

Orion Education is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.

We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.

Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.

The successful candidate will be accountable for student progress and development in the faculty across KS3, KS4 and post-16. They should ensure high standards of teaching & learning across the faculty across a broad, balanced relevant and differentiated curriculum. They will manage and deploy resources across their faculty area.

Key Accountabilities

Teaching

To undertake an appropriate programme of teaching in accordance with the duties of a standard scale teacher.

To plan and prepare courses and lessons in line with academy policy.

To contribute to the whole academy’s planning activities.

To assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of students and to keep such records as are required.

To provide, or contribute to, oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students and groups of students.

To undertake a designated programme of teaching.

To ensure a high-quality learning experience for students that meets internal and external quality standards.

To prepare and update subject materials.

To ensure effective and efficient deployment of classroom support.

To use a variety of delivery methods that will stimulate learning appropriate to student needs and demands of the syllabus.

To maintain discipline in accordance with the academy’s procedures and to encourage good practice with regard to punctuality, behaviour, standards of work and homework.

To undertake assessment of students as requested by external examination bodies, subject area and academy procedures.

To mark, grade and give written/verbal and diagnostic feedback as required.

To teach students according to their educational needs, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the student in the academy and elsewhere.

To ensure that ICT, Literacy, Numeracy, PHSE and Work-Related Learning are reflected in the teaching/learning experience of students

Operational/Strategic Planning

To lead on rigorous self-evaluation and review of subject area performance, recording outcomes with evidence in a focused, precise and evaluative manner in the Subject area self-evaluation form (SSEF) which will feed into the whole academy self-evaluation form (SEF)

To lead on the development of appropriate syllabi, resources, schemes of work, marking and assessment policies and teaching and learning strategies, that are innovative, will motivate students to learn and raise achievement across the subject area

To assist the Head of Faculty by contributing to the formulation of and subsequently the monitoring evaluation and review of the faculty improvement plan

To use information from personal learning plans and assessment data to formulate a raising achievement plan for teachers across the subject area

To assist the Head of Faculty to foster and oversee the application of Literacy and ICT in the subject area, including the development of materials

To ensure that Health and Safety policies and practices, including risk assessments, throughout the subject area are in-line with national requirements and are updated where necessary

To use the specialism materials available to develop a comprehensive assessment methodology which tracks pupil progress and skill development in a scientific and enterprising manner

Curriculum

To ensure the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality and cost-effective curriculum that has high expectations of achievement for all students

To lead development of the subject and its delivery, reviewing it regularly in the light of academy and national policies, as well as the impact on achievement

To be responsible for the selection of appropriate examination syllabi, ensuring coverage and providing the examination officer with accurate and appropriate information when requested.

To be responsible for the development of Work-Related Learning (WRL) and literacy strategy through the subject area in line with academy policies

To work with others to embed cross curricular Literacy across the academy, that is effective in raising standards

Staff Development: Recruitment/Deployment of Staff

To assist the Head of Faculty to build an effective team of motivated teaching and support staff who share the academy vision of high achievement for all students

To assist the Head of Faculty to induct, guide and support all staff in the subject areas, ensuring training needs are met, in liaison with the Assistant Principal with responsibility for professional learning

To assist the Head of Faculty in the performance management of staff in the subject area, in line with the academy performance management policy

To assist the Head of Faculty to monitor the efficient and effective deployment of the faculty’s technicians/support staff and contribute to their performance management process

To assist the Head of Faculty on all matters concerning recruitment and retention of staff, including participation in any interview process to ensure recruitment of high-quality personnel

To assist the Head of Faculty in the day-to-day management of all teaching and support staff in the subject area and to act as a positive role model

To make appropriate arrangements for classes when staff are absent

To participate in the academy ITT and ECT training and induction programmes

In liaison with the Assistant Principal responsible for Professional Learning, ensuring staff training needs are met
• We reserve the right to this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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