Leadership Development Director
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking an outstanding Leadership Development Director to work within our high performing Academy.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree
- Outstanding teaching practice
- Excellent behaviour management
- Experience of lesson observations and giving robust feedback
- Experience of improvement planning
- Experience of implementing a range of strategies to raise student achievement, with evidence of success
- Contribution to impact on the quality of learning and teaching and curriculum
- Proven track record of excellent results at KS3/4
- Experience of high quality pupil tracking and feedback practices.
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
What the school offers its staff
Harris City Academy Crystal Palace is a mixed Academy for 1,300 students aged 11-18, with a large sixth form of nearly 400 students. The Academy has three consecutive Outstanding judgments by Ofsted, with the most recent inspection in 2014 finding the Academy to be Outstanding in every aspect.We are a consistently high performing school. Our motto, ‘All Can Achieve' encapsulates our vision that all members of the Academy community are supported and encouraged to achieve their absolute potential. We believe that a well-supported and valued staff body is the key to our success.
We are the ‘Teaching School Hub' for Croydon and Sutton and we are able to offer all teachers an extensive programme of first class professional development. Harris City Academy Crystal Palace is part of the Harris Federation and this enables us to offer you a comprehensive induction programme and training and development opportunities to support your career development including Masters and other qualifications.
In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
The purpose of your role will be:
- To provide outstanding teaching and learning which meets the needs of all students.
- To support Senior Vice Principal raising standards of teaching and learning across the department and in monitoring progress towards agreed aims.
- To provide specialist Teaching and Learning expertise to assist Academy staff, as appropriate
- To take the strategic lead of an agreed whole school responsibility.
- To support and hold to account other staff in the Academy through teaching and learning programmes.
- To support the Senior Vice Principal in the implementation of agreed whole school policies and initiatives.
- To plan and facilitate professional learning workshops as requested.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.