KS4 Lead for Science in Manchester

What skills and experience we're looking for

• To be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
• To plan appropriate learning for all children, monitoring progress and intervening when there is underperformance.
• To create a high quality, rich, stimulating and enabling learning environment.
• To work collaboratively and flexibly to ensure effective planning, successful learning, better than expected progress and accurate and moderated assessment outcomes.
• To manage the learning environment, resources and time to ensure effective learning takes place.
• To monitor and celebrate children’s learning, progress and achievement and record and report upon progress, including details on attendance, behaviour, development and additional needs.
• To be able to set clear targets, based on prior attainment, for pupils’ learning.
• To have a detailed professional knowledge of the curriculum including an understanding of the progression of learning and development and national testing.
• To accurately assess children’s development and to help create a successful framework for assessment.
• To work effectively with TAs and other colleagues who support children in their learning and beyond.
• To maintain a positive attitude, seeking to bring out the best in learners and having high expectations for all.
• To establish positive relationships with parents/carers, ensuring parental involvement in learning and progress.
• To constantly strive to improve own performance and identify areas for self-improvement, attending appropriate training.
• To keep own CPD record up to date.
• To undertake any other duties as deemed appropriate by the line manager and commensurate with the post.

Specific to Role

• Support the Head of Department in taking responsibility for the overall performance in KS4.
• Implement a KS4 curriculum that excites students about science, that goes beyond the National Curriculum requirements, is purposeful for achieving excellent outcomes and is relevant to the MCA community.
• Develop and use effective formative and summative assessments that support future learning and provide meaningful data.
• Support the CEIAG agenda to develop a knowledge, understanding and interest in pathways and careers linked to study in science.
• Create a rich and exciting extended schools offer to further student engagement in science and prepare students for further study.
• Contribute to evaluating the progress made in achieving subject targets and evaluate the impact of teaching and learning.
• Scrutinise data to identify underperformance and lead on strategies to address any issues arising.
• Provide guidance on appropriate teaching and learning methods, and coaching relating to the successful delivery of these methods.
• Support effective coaching and mentoring of all staff for science.
• Quality assure provision and monitor standards of learning, teaching and engagement across science.
• Demonstrate consistently high standards in your own practice.
• Undertake any other duties as deemed appropriate by the line manager and commensurate with the post.

Raising and maintaining standards

• Secure academic outcomes in line with the targets set through the academy’s target setting policy.
• Monitor and manage a KS4 curriculum that ensures coherence and progression in the teaching of key subject knowledge, skills, understanding and concepts.
• Support the assessment process in the subject ensuring accurate measurement of subject standards in all year groups at all summative assessment points.
• Review and refine the curriculum, planning, teaching and assessment in the KS4 Science.
• Manage parent review processes in KS4 and ensure communication to parents regarding student performance is understood, accurate and insightful.
• Support innovative ways of sharing best practice.

Teaching & Learning

• As an outstanding classroom practitioner, to model excellence in the classroom and beyond, providing effective support to groups of learners.
• Teach engaging and effective lessons that motivate, inspire so students enjoy and achieve.
• Ensure that technology is used effectively to support learning.
• Maintain accurate pupil data that can be used to make teaching more effective.
• Ensure a high-quality learning experience for all students.

Standard Duties and Responsibilities

• Have due regard to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
• Promote and implement equality and diversity.
• Adhere to legislation and the Academy’s policies and procedures.
• Participate in performance reviews and professional/personal development activities.
• Will model the Academy’s values at all times to generate a shared purpose.

What the school offers its staff

• Access to Staff Employee Assistance Programme & other staff wellbeing services.
• One additional ‘Flexi-Day’ of paid leave that can be taken during term time after 6 months’ service.
• Free On Site Parking.
• Cycle to Work Scheme & On Site Bike Storage.
• Car Leasing Scheme.
• On Site Gym & Changing Room Facilities.
• Electric Car Chargers.
• Staff Bistro.
• Free Tea & Coffee.
• Corporate Eye-Care Scheme.
• Reduced Teaching Load.
• High quality weekly CPD offer.
• Early Friday finishes.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), medical, online and social media, prohibition from teaching, right to work, satisfactory references, suitability to work with children. You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.