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At Harris Academy Merton we promote the ethos ‘’Achievement is Success’’ and believe every student has the right to the highest standard of education so that they can accomplish their aspirations. Our aim is to give every student an educational experience that is enjoyable and holistic so that they develop into responsible, articulate and successful young people.
We combine the traditional values of strong discipline, good manners, respect and pride in appearance with contemporary best practice in teaching and technology. With these core values embedded, we develop our students into confident and capable individuals that have a desire to excel academically and personally now and in the future.
Main Areas of Responsibility
Your responsibilities will include:
- To work with the Head of Department and the mathematics team to delivering exceptional student outcomes.
- To be accountable for student progress and development in the mathematics area across KS3, KS4 and Post 16, including meeting student achievement targets for subject areas which are agreed by the Principal and the Governing Body.
- To ensure consistently high standards of teaching and learning across the subject area through continuously, developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.
- To ensure the provision of an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant, and differentiated curriculum for students in the subject area, in accordance with the academy aims and policies, as determined by the Principal and Governing Body.
- To ensure that all school policies and procedures are implemented and applied consistently by all staff in the subject area.
- To ensure effective behaviour for learning is evident throughout the subject area.
- To effectively and efficiently manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and physical resources across the subject area.
- To lead development for numeracy, within all subject areas, to raise standards of numeracy across the Academy.
What We are Looking For
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- QTS (or equivalent) and a good, relevant undergraduate degree
- Minimum of four years' teaching experience
- Proven success in raising achievement
- Experience of leading others, ensuring high quality performance
- Successful experience in implementation of monitoring, evaluation and review process to improve the quality of teaching and learning
- High level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement
- Recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development
- Experience of presenting to a wide audience including teachers, other managers, students and parents
- Good understanding of creative whole school strategies for improving literacy and numeracy and the importance of this in raising achievement
- Some successful experience of leading on cross subject initiatives that have contributed to raising achievement
- Experience of embedding innovative strategies for Assessment for Learning and Learning to Learn
- Recent and relevant experience of managing and implementing change successfully at subject leader level
- Willingness to use coaching as a model for ensuring on-going professional development
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
Applying for this Position
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, 26 days' annual leave (plus bank holidays) for staff who work across the full year, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.
