Head of Faculty, Maths

Oasis Academy Don Valley, Sheffield
Academy-based

Basis: Full-time, Permanent

Start Date: April 2025 or sooner

Applications Close: 09:00 on Friday, February 28, 2025

Interviews: W/C 3rd March 2025

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Apply by: 28th February 2025

Job overview

Are you an ambitious and passionate leader looking for a new role within Mathematics?

We are looking to recruit an inspiring senior leader to join our well qualified and talented team to help us towards our goal of providing exceptional education at the heart of the community. Securing strong literacy standards and Mathematics outcomes is imperative for our students and we want to recruit an exceptional colleague to help lead us to our ambitious goals.

Oasis Academy Don Valley delivers “Excellence by all, for all”. We are looking to recruit an inspiring leader to support the ongoing development of our Mathematics department and our whole school literacy provision. We are a dynamic and vibrant Academy with enthusiastic, committed, and high performing staff. This is a tremendously exciting time to join us, as opportunities for professional development and career enhancement are being realised across the city. Our mission is focused around entitling our students, staff, and community to an exceptional education. Don Valley is a wonderful place to work due to the excellent partnership we have with our students, their families and the wider community. We strive to be the exceptional school our community deserves and are excited to welcome applications from future colleagues who share our enthusiasm for education and dedication to transforming the community we live in and serve.

In the summer term of 2021, the Academy began our Horizons project: every student in the Academy now has a dedicated iPad for use in the classroom. This is a hugely exciting development, and one which we want our new Mathematics leader to play a key part in developing the use of online and interactive technology to enhance learning. We are investing heavily in our digital literacy provision and are looking for a leader to ensure we are a leading academy within the trust here.

As part of Oasis Community Learning (OCL), the Academy follows the pre-resourced OCL curriculum, offering exceptional pedagogical development for teachers, alongside support of our dedicated National Lead Practitioner for Mathematics.

Benefits we offer:

• An exceptional CPD offer including fortnightly personalised Incremental Coaching, weekly Academy-wide and department-based CPD and termly Trust-based CPD.
• A pre-planned, fully resourced, Trust-wide curriculum with the autonomy to adapt for your students – no planning lessons from scratch!
• A centralised Culture for Learning policy which allows the teacher to teach and students to learn. You will be fully supported too by a superb Pastoral and SEND team.
• A streamlined, personalised feedback & assessment policy, created to minimise staff workload and maximise student progression.
• The opportunity to undertake fully-funded National Professional Qualifications and access to Apprenticeship Levy for further professional and academic qualifications.
• The opportunity to run a weekly extra-curricular club of your choosing, and to share your hidden talents with students!
• Access to an iPad for all staff / students enabling the use of Formative and other online self-marking assessment resources.
• The opportunity to further your career within the Trust and region. There are also a range of National Lead Practitioner roles within the Trust which you may also have the opportunity to apply for.
• Access to Eye Care vouchers and a national Cycle to Work scheme.
• Access to Health Shield Cash Plan which can include 24/7 access to a GP, assistance with the cost and access to dental treatment, eye-care, physiotherapy, and chiropody.
• Support to balance your work/life/caring responsibilities via our Time Off Work Policy, Menopause Policy, Flexible Working and Sabbatical Policy.
• Trust wide recognition of the challenges to mental health, facing both staff and students, and the support of our National Mental Health Team which is staffed by professionally qualified Mental Health Nurses.
• Confidential Counselling services for you and those that live with you, should times get tough.

Job/Person Summary

We are seeking an inspirational and outstanding Mathematics leader to join our experienced Mathematics department and bolster the leadership capacity of this core department. The successful candidate will be required to teach Mathematics Language and Literature at KS3 and KS4 to the highest standard and make a positive difference to Academy life. A willingness to support the Academy ethos and extra-curricular activities within the Academy is essential. The role will include line management of the Mathematics Department.

If you wish to grow professionally with our academy, join us and become part of the team to continue to develop our outstanding academy.

For more information about the post as well as an application pack including a full job description, please visit our website or contact our academy on .

We welcome informal visits to the Academy from prospective candidates.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken Mathematics is an essential requirement for this role.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced Disclosure and Barring checks.

Oasis Community Learning supports Equal Opportunities Employment.

To apply for the position of Head of Faculty, Maths at Oasis Academy Don Valley, please download and complete (by saving to your computer) the above Application Form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Forms and either submit the forms Online (by clicking ‘Apply Online’) or by Emailing the academy directly.

Please send your completed application by no later than 09:00 on Friday, February 28, 2025.