Director of Social and Health Sciences - Plymouth
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit an outstanding teacher and faculty leader to assume a key leadership position as Director of Social and Health Sciences. The faculty is housed and mainly taught within Scott Medical and Healthcare College, apart from those courses taught at Key Stage 3 & 4 at Stoke Damerel Community College.Both colleges are on the same campus.
The successful candidate will lead the Social and Health Sciences across the campus. They will be a talented, outstanding and ambitious teacher with excellent organisational and motivational skills. Bringing a proven track record of success in improving standards and raising student outcomes.If you are able to demonstrate the ability to lead a successful department, drawing on your extensive teaching experience we would welcome an application from you.
Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical and Healthcare College are a vibrant and aspirational community of teachers and learners. We have an excellent teaching and support staff team who demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, within and beyond our curriculum.
We are proud members of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing our own distinctive character.The Trust is a vibrant and forward-thinking community of teachers, support staff and learners committed to educating the ‘whole child’ to improve life chances, whilst securing the best possible outcomes for students.
The successful candidate will work across Stoke Damerel Community College and Scott Medical & Healthcare College. No additional travel is required as the sites are next door to each other.
Main duties and responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Development and implementation of a World Class Curriculum and holistic Social and Health Science Pathway.
- Promote the work of the college and courses contributing to the Medical and Healthcare Pathway of Scott College so that it is seen as the place to study.
- Development of community links to enhance the opportunities within each of the subject areas
- Link with external partners within these fields to develop an enriched offer for students to gain hands-on experience
- Academic outcomes at KS4 and KS5.
- Leading raising standards within the subject through quality assurance of teaching, learning and assessment.
- Oversight of operational practice within the department.
- Lead a collaborative team across the campus.
- Line management of the subject leads and post holders within the faculty.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All teaching and support members of staff must undertake the required pre-employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
What the school offers its staff
Our campus is based in the heart of the city of Plymouth with stunning view of the Plymouth Sound and easy walking distance of the most accessible city waterfront. We encourage all young people to work hard and make the most of the opportunities they are given.Our amazing team of teachers and support staff themselves demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, both within and beyond our curriculum.
The vision for our campus is that we have high expectations and aspirations for all our students. Working at Stoke Damerel and Scott College you can expect the following:
- Highly visible and supportive leadership team
- Disruption free learning in all classrooms
- Hard working students
- Centralised planning and resources
- Centralised homework checked daily
- Centralised detentions
- A clear feed forward policy, incorporating live marking and whole class feed forward only
- Consistent lesson structure based on the Rosenshine principles
- Weekly, high quality CPD sessions focused on practice in the classroom
- Clear daily routines (Standard Operating Procedures – our SOPs) that all staff follow regardless of role
- Teacher desks include Pastore’s Perch & desk, visualiser and use of two computer screens
- Subject experts working together within a collaborative trust
- Commitment to personal developmental drop in every 3 weeks
- No report writing
- No hours of marking
- No individual lesson planning
- No graded lesson observations
- No excessive data collection
Commitment to safeguarding
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All teaching and support members of staff must undertake the required pre-employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.