KS2 Teacher (ICT coordinator) in Carrickfergus

Overview

ICT Coordinator

• Lead the strategic development of ICT teaching and digital learning across the school.
• Support staff in integrating technology effectively into lessons to enhance teaching and pupil engagement.
• Provide training and guidance on the use of educational software, hardware, and online learning platforms.
• Oversee the school’s ICT curriculum, ensuring progression, relevance, and alignment with national expectations.
• Monitor pupil attainment and progress in computing, identifying gaps and supporting targeted interventions.
• Manage and maintain school technology, including devices, networks, interactive boards, and classroom equipment.
• Liaise with external technical support services to ensure systems are secure, up-to-date, and functioning effectively.
• Promote safe and responsible use of technology, leading e-safety initiatives for pupils, staff, and parents.
• Lead the adoption of new digital tools and innovations that enhance learning and streamline school processes.
• Work collaboratively with senior leadership to create and implement an ICT development plan aligned with school improvement priorities.

Professional Duties

• Planning and preparing courses and lessons.
• Teaching, according to their educational needs, the pupils assigned to him/her, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the pupils in school and elsewhere.
• Assessing, recording and reporting on the development, progress and attainment of pupils.
• Promoting the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and of any class or group of pupils assigned to him/her.
• Providing advice and guidance to pupils on educational and social matters and on their further education and future careers.
• Making records of and reports on the personal and social needs of pupils.
• Communicating and consulting with the parents of pupils.
• Participating in meetings arranged for any of the purposes described above.

Assessment/Reporting

• Providing or contributing to oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual pupils and groups of pupils.

Staff Development/Professional Development

• Participating, if required, in any scheme of staff development and performance review.
• Reviewing from time to time his/her methods of teaching and programmes of work.
• Advising and co-operating with the Principal and other teachers on the preparation and development of courses of study, teaching materials, teaching programmes, methods of teaching and assessment and pastoral arrangements.

Discipline/Health and Safety

• Maintaining good order and discipline among pupils in accordance with the policies of the employing authority and safeguarding their health and safety.

Public Examinations

• Participating in arrangements for preparing pupils for public examinations and in assessing pupils for the purposes of such examinations.

Review and Development of Management Activities/Administration

• Contributing to the selection for appointment and professional development of other teachers.
• Co-ordinating or managing the work of other teachers.
• Participating in administrative and organisational tasks related to such duties.

Number of days/Hours of work

• A full-time teacher shall be available for work on 195 days in any year.
• A teacher may not be required to teach as distinct from supervise children in a classroom situation for more than 25 hours in any week in a primary or special school.

Staff cover

• Supervising and teaching any pupils whose teacher is not available.

This job description will be subject to review in light of changing circumstances and is not intended to be rigid and inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works.

In accordance with Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act (1998), the post-holder is expected to promote good relations, equality of opportunity and pay due regard for equality legislation at all times.

Person Specification

NOTES TO JOB APPLICANTS

• You must clearly demonstrate on your application form under each question, how, and to what extent you meet the required criteria.
• You must demonstrate how you meet the criteria by the closing date for applications.

SECTION 1 - ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Hold a teaching qualification which meets the requirements for recognition to teach in grant-aided schools in Northern Ireland.
• Minimum of 3 years’ demonstrable experience of teaching at Key Stage 2.
• Minimum of 1 year’s experience of coordinating a curricular area across the whole school.
• Demonstrable experience of monitoring pupil progress, performance, target setting and intervention.

SECTION 2 - ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Knowledge of Northern Ireland Curriculum.
• Knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding and Child Protection policy/practice.
• Knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice.
• Knowledge of a range of teaching strategies to meet the learning needs of pupils.
• Knowledge of Information Technology systems.
• Knowledge of current assessment methods to inform teaching.

SECTION 3 - DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Minimum of 5 years’ demonstrable experience of teaching at Key Stage 2.
• Minimum of 1 year’s demonstrable experience in coordinating a curricular area across the whole school in ICT.
• Demonstrable experience of assisting with an after-school club.

The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 defines working directly with children or young people as ‘regulated activity’.