Orion Education is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.  

We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.   

Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.  

Improving quality of teaching and learning

Model consistently high-quality teaching and be able to demonstrate excellent practice to others

·         Produce high-quality teaching materials that support excellent practice

·         Prepare and deliver subject based training courses across the school and Trust to improve teachers’ practice

·         Carry out lesson observations, providing feedback and implementing strategies to improve practice

·         Provide instructional coaching to individual teachers in need of 1-2-1 support to improve their practice

·         Promote strategies which support differentiation, inclusion and positive behaviour

·         Provide school support in subject area across the Trust when required

·         Provide support as directed to support the teaching and learning of the school

·         To keep up to date with the latest research on teaching and learning, ensuring that effective practice makes its way to the classroom and policy design where appropriate.

Monitoring and evaluation

·         Co-ordinate and carry out monitoring and evaluation activities to improve teaching and learning, including work scruitinise, lesson observations, learning walks etc.

·         Use systems to analyse data from monitoring and evaluation, and use insights to inform strategies and plans for teacher development

·         Support with self-evaluation and school improvement planning across the school

Curriculum

·         To ensure the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality and cost-effective curriculum that has high expectations of achievement for all students

·         To support development of the subjects within the faculty and its delivery, reviewing it regularly in the light of school and national policies, as well as the impact on achievement

·         To be responsible for the development of Work-Related Learning and literacy strategy through the subject areas in line with school policies

·         To work with others to embed cross curricular Literacy across the school, that is effective in raising standards

Staff Development: Recruitment/Deployment of Staff

·         To support in building an effective team of motivated teaching and support staff who share the School vision of high achievement for all students

·         To induct, guide and support all staff in the subject areas, ensuring training needs are met, in liaison with the Assistant Principal with responsibility for professional learning

·         To be responsible for the performance management of staff in the subject area, in line with the School performance management policy

·         To liaise with the Assistant Principal on all matters concerning recruitment and retention of staff, including participation in any interview process to ensure recruitment of high-quality personnel

·         To make appropriate arrangements for classes when staff are absent

·         To participate in the school ITT and ECT training and induction programmes

·         In liaison with the Assistant Principal responsible for Professional Learning, ensuring staff training needs are met

Quality Assurance

·         To ensure that challenging targets for achievement are set, communicated to staff and students and that all staff work positively towards reaching them

·         To work with the Head of Faculty to monitor and evaluate the work of the subject area, in line with agreed school procedures, including evaluation against quality standards and performance criteria

·         Accountable for ensuring rigorous and effective systems of self-evaluation and review are carried out in line with school policy and that information collected through the process is used to make changes that will impact positively on student achievement

*We reserve the right to this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. 

We look forward to hearing from you.   

Orion Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Orion Education is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.