English Lead

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:  English Lead

Accountable to: Grateley

Core Purpose of the English Lead

To provide conditions for teachers in the English department to provide the best educational experience for our students. To work with the English department and other colleagues to help develop young people who strive for excellence.

Leadership and Management

To lead and develop the learning of all students and teachers in the faculty to ensure excellence.

To motivate and to work with others to create and develop a positive, collaborative learning culture.

To keep up to date with general and faculty based pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning, actively implementing them where appropriate including the delivery of INSET to those within and outside of the faculty.

To provide useful and detailed analysis of data to support student progress.

To organise and run events to promote reading, writing and speaking to the whole school community.

To ensure the vision for the school is clearly articulated, shared, understood and acted upon effectively by members of the department.

To determine, organise and implement a diverse, flexible, challenging and differentiated curriculum and to ensure an effective assessment framework is implemented.

To provide regular coaching and feedback for subject area teachers in a way which recognises good practice and supports progress against their targets (including the facilitation of meaningful and directed CPD), resulting in a tangible impact on student learning across the subject area.

To support, facilitate and monitor the progress of the designated subject area development plans to ensure they make a significant contribution to the School Improvement Plan.

To ensure all faculty documentation is accurate, detailed and meaningful, especially with regards to BSO inspection material.

To be an effective and active member of the Secondary HOD Team and lead on at least one area of the School Improvement Plan.

To ensure the department is well resourced and maintain the effective deployment and management of the department budget.

To effectively distribute tasks throughout the faculty ensuring and monitoring their successful completion.

To chair department meetings with a focus on teaching and learning, ensuring a detailed agenda and minutes are produced and distributed in a timely manner.

To ensure student leadership opportunities are prevalent throughout the faculty.

To provide regular progress updates to the SLT to ensure they are fully aware of all successes, issues and concerns in the subject areas