Subject Leader Re - Lambeth, United Kingdom - Harris Federation

Harris Federation
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Lambeth, United Kingdom

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We are looking for a qualified teacher of Religious Education with an excellent track record in the classroom to join Harris Academy Clapham as Subject Leader of Religious Education.

This is part of the next wave of staff recruitment as our Academy grows and takes on its next cohort of students in September 2023, ready for reaching full capacity by 2024.


About Us
The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where
'everything is possible'.

The
Clapham curriculum is designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of every one of our students.

Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.


  • Subject specific knowledge and skills come first
  • Embedding and building on the basics ensuring that every student acquires the vocabulary, literacy and numeracy skills to enable them to fully participate in society
  • The curriculum must be rigorous and relevant by engaging with the best of what has been thought and said and acknowledging that knowledge is fluid and can be contested
  • The curriculum must prepare for life in modern Britain and beyond, and enable Clapham students to understand their rights and fulfil their responsibilities under the Equality Act.


Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that 'Everything is Possible'.


Endeavour for excellence

  • Learning to work hard and
    relish challenge.
  • Learning to
    never give up.
  • Learning to take
    sensible risks.
  • Learning to always
    strive for the best for themselves and each other.

Integrity and honesty

  • Always acting with
    kindness.
  • Treating others the way they would like to be treated.

Self-belief with a global view

  • Growing to have the
    agency to
    achieve their ambitions for themselves and the wider world.
Our staff are supported in their work and in developing their future careers via:

  • A centralised behaviour system, with each year group supported by non-teaching pastoral leaders
  • A programme of instructional coaching, supported by the Step Lab platform
  • Access to a wide range of National Professional Qualifications delivered by the Institute of Teaching
Harris Federation professional development training days and networking support.


Main Areas of Responsibility Operational/Strategic Planning**
Curriculum Provision

  • To be responsible for the selection of appropriate examination syllabuses (when relevant), ensuring coverage and providing the examination secretary with accurate and appropriate information when requested.

Quality Assurance

  • To be accountable for ensuring rigorous and effective systems of selfevaluation and review are carried out in line with Academy policy.

Communications

  • To arrange details for internal and external examinations, ensuring clear communication to parents and students.

Management of Resources

  • To manage the available resources of space, staff, delegated budget and equipment effectively within the policies and procedures laid down by the Academy.

Pastoral System

  • To be a form tutor
  • To participate in afterhours activities with students.
  • To contribute to and implement the Academy policy on rewards and support taking responsibility for student behaviour.

Staff Development:
Recruitment/Deployment of Staff

  • To build an effective team of motivated teaching and support staff who share the Academy vision of high achievement for all students.
  • To make appropriate arrangements for classes when staff are absent.

Teaching

  • To undertake an appropriate programme of teaching in accordance with the duties of a standard main scale teacher.
  • To assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of students and to keep such records as are required.
  • To ensure effective and efficient deployment of classroom support.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Understanding of theory and practice of effective teaching and learning
  • Minimum of three years' teaching experience (preferred)
  • Successful experience of processes of monitoring, evaluation and review that provide performance data that can be used to improve the quality of teaching and learning
  • Strong level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement, including the use of interactive white boards
  • Recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development
  • Ideas of how Disciplinary Literacy and Numeracy can be used across the curriculum to raise standards
  • Experience of embedding researchinformed strategies for improving teaching and learning
  • Experience of managing and implementing change successfully
  • Experience of using coaching as a model for ensurin
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