Second in charge of Maths (2 I/C) - The Beaconsfield School
Location: Beaconsfield
Overview
Salary details: MPS/UPS Fringe + TLR 2
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37
Closing date: 07/12/2024 09:00
Interviews to be held: On receipt of suitable applications
About us
As a school we are creative in our curriculum and we treat each child as an individual; because of this, learning and progress is at the centre of everything we do. We work towards making the selective system irrelevant. We have 870 students, with a growing 6th form and just fewer than 100 staff at the school.
Website: https://www.beaconsfield.school/
About the role
• The post holder will be expected to support the Head of Department in achieving high standards of attainment and progress of students in Maths.
• To assist the head of department in coordinating the delivery of the Maths curriculum, resources, schemes of work, marking policies, assessment and teaching strategies in the department.
• To ensure effective communication between the Maths department and parents/carers, ensuring information parents/carers need to support their child is provided via updating the website, “How to support your child with learning” and supporting the Head Of Department as necessary at Parent Information Evenings.
• To provide high quality leadership and management for the subject team, including line managing members of the team.
• To utilise data to target underachievement and lead on implementing and assessing the impact of programmes of intervention for KS4 Maths.
• To develop effective links with parents/carers of students within Maths.
• To deputise for the Head of Maths in his/her absence
• Ensure consistent, sustainable improvement in the above areas, through contributing to the department’s self-evaluation and forward-planning.
• Leadership and implementation of the vision for the subject ensuring high aspirations for the achievement, behaviour, personal development, engagement and attendance of every student in the subject within TBS, in conjunction with the Head of Department.
• In conjunction with the Head of Maths, lead on ensuring a high quality curriculum at KS3 ensuring a collaborative culture of shared planning and sharing best practice is evident throughout KS3.
• In conjunction with the Head of Maths participate in quality assurance processes across the department via conducting student voice, work sampling and lesson observations.
• Support Head of Maths in the management and promotion of the subject to ensure a positive profile within the academy and outside the academy, this includes promoting Maths at Open Evenings or other parent facing events and ensuring information on the website is up-to-date.
• To develop and enhance the teaching practice of others by upholding and exemplifying a culture of sharing good practice
• To support members of the team to monitor and follow up student progress by enacting second level behaviour interventions and meeting with parents
• To support the head of department in actively monitoring and responding to curriculum development and initiatives at national, regional and local levels.
• To promote and develop extra-curricular activities within the department.
For further information please see attached Job description.
About you
The successful candidate will have the energy, drive and stamina to deliver in an innovative way that will engage our students.
You will have the desire to make Maths the most interesting subject to every student in the school and you will have belief that every student can do well in your classroom.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.
Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Tel No: 01494 673450
Email: [email protected]
The Beaconsfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
