Head of Department - Computing

• Lead teaching and learning - bring the trust's knowledge-rich curriculum to life and set high expectations in every classroom.
• Grow your team - coach, develop and inspire the colleagues you lead.
• Raise the profile of Computing - build enrichment such as coding clubs, competitions and links with local employers, so students see where the subject can take them.
• Drive outcomes - use assessment well to make sure every student, whatever their starting point, makes excellent progress.

Why join us?

• You won't start from scratch - a shared, carefully sequenced curriculum with lesson booklets for KS3, OCR GCSE Computer Science (J277) and OCR Creative iMedia (R093/R094), written by computing specialists in the trust.
• Specialist support - subject-specific guidance and coaching from the trust's Director of Computer Science.
• A network of colleagues - collaborate with computing teachers across NET's 17 secondary academies.
• Trust-wide events for students - give your students the chance to compete, create and shine beyond the classroom at trust events such as Cyber North and the NET Game Dev Jam.
• A career, not just a job - routes into trust-wide subject roles and senior leadership, supported by the NET Staff College.
  You are an ambitious, forward-thinking computing teacher with excellent subject knowledge and high expectations? You may already lead a department, or be ready to take your first step into leadership. Above all, you believe every young person deserves to understand - and shape - the technology around them.