Head of Key Stage 5 Psychology - Greenwich-

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Job description

Job Title: Head of KS 5 Psychology
Working pattern: Full time
Salary: Main pay range 1 to Upper pay range 3, £29,664 to £48,244
Location: London borough of Greenwich

Job summary:

Are you an outstanding Psychology practitioner looking for a change and want to be part of a team of professionals devoted to improving and inspiring students? We are looking to appoint a creative and inspirational Head of Psychology with excellent track records in raising achievement in Psychology and leading a department.

This is a fully comprehensive 11 - 18, 7 form entry, mixed secondary school located in the London borough of Greenwich. The school has been dedicated to serving the community of Greenwich for over 300 years. The school is over two sites with their exciting modern building combined with a fully redeveloped sixth form across the road.

The school is a vibrant and diverse community of exciting and aspirational students. Their ideal Head of Psychology will have strong inner city experience with a track record of contributing to the running of a large comprehensive school with the ability to demonstrate the impact that they have made.

The school has undergone some significant challenges through various changes in recent years, and are now looking for a successful individual to stabilise the Teaching & Learning Team in the Psychology department with the intent on providing students with the best education by enabling colleagues to excel.

Additional allowances

Fantastic pupils with enormous potential.
An established and comprehensive induction programme.
A working environment focused on teaching and learning and raising standards for all.
A supportive environment in which your enthusiasm, commitment and passion in making a difference to the lives of students will be rewarded.

Main Areas of Responsibility

The purpose of your role will be:

To be accountable for student progress and development in the subject 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 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 agreed tutor programme is implemented and that tutors are effective in their role.
To ensure effective behaviour for learning is evident throughout faculty

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will:

Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a good, relevant undergraduate degree.
Be an excellent teacher with a minimum of two years' teaching experience.
Have proven success in raising achievement.
Have experience of leading others, ensuring high quality performance.
Have successful experience in implementation of monitoring, evaluation and review process to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
Demonstrate a high level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement.
Have recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development.
Have experience of presenting to a wide audience including teachers, other managers, students and parents.
Understand creative whole school strategies for improving literacy and numeracy and the importance of this in raising achievement.

Have some successful experience of leading on cross subject initiatives that have contributed to raising achievement.

Have experience of embedding innovative strategies for Assessment for Learning and Learning to Learn.
Have recent and relevant experience of managing and implementing change successfully at subject leader level.
Be willing to use coaching as a model for ensuring on-going professional development.

If this sounds of interest and you are a successful Psychology teacher with a proven track record then Tradewind Recruitment would like to hear from you today.

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