Curriculum Leader of Geography

The Chalk Hills Academy have a great opportunity for a Curriculum Leader of Geography to join our dynamic Humanities and Social Sciences department. The main purpose of the post is to develop, plan and deliver effective and high-quality learning experiences to all students, improving upon GCSE outcomes.  In joining the Geography department at The Chalk Hills Academy, where colleagues are collaborative, imaginative and thrive in a team environment, you will help further advance curriculum changes and share excellent practice.

The successful candidate will be an experienced / aspirational professional, who is enthusiastic, influential and committed to working in pursuit of success for the academy and its learners.  If you are highly motivated, respond well to a challenge and have excellent communication skills, this could be the job for you!

The Chalk Hills Academy are proud of the unrivalled education experience offered and you will certainly benefit from forward-thinking and supportive leadership, an encouraging and enthusiastic staff body and enterprising students.  Our academy has state of the art facilities, fit for all your teaching needs. At The Chalk Hills Academy, we offer a school that will genuinely invest, support and develop you to become an outstanding practitioner and enable you to keep climbing the career ladder.  If you are ambitious about excelling in your career and taking on additional responsibilities, we will give you the opportunities that you crave.

Key Duties

• To play an active role in curriculum planning and delivery
• Be accountable for the learning and achievement of all students

The successful candidate will

• Overview of curriculum at KS3 and KS4.
•  Teacher of Geography who can teach at both KS3 KS4.
• Experience of AQA specification desirable but not essential
• Ability to teach other Humanities subjects at KS3, preferable, but not essential.
• To support colleagues to achieve targets set.
• To have responsibility for planning, delivery, and assessment of learning activities for identified groups of students at Key Stage 3 and 4.
• To ensure student achievement is at least in line with expectations.
•  To be accountable for progress and achievement of students across Geography.
• To have responsibility for the pastoral care of an identified tutor group.
• To implement school policies and procedures as appropriate in day-to-day activities.

Job specifics

Start date  asap

Salary AST 1-12 (dependent on experience) plus Curriculum Lead allowance £5,873

Job Role   Full time, Permanent

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

Safeguarding

We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.  Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.

Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:

“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”

The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.