Head of Department Geography
North Durham Academy
Durham, County
- £30,000 - £46,525 per year
- New
- Salary:
- MPS - UPS plus a TLR2b
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 7 October 2024
Job overview
Head of Department Geography
MPS - UPS + TLR2b
To Start January 2025
We have an exciting opportunity for a talented and experienced Head of Department Geography to join our team at North Durham Academy. If you are comfortable with working in a fast paced, dynamic and inspirational environment and have the ability to lead and influence the lives of our next generation, we would love to hear from you.
You will work closely with the Assistant Headteacher responsible for Teaching and Learning and to raise student outcomes and standards at all key stages and participate in delivering improvement strategies where identified.
The successful candidate will be responsible for shaping, developing and reviewing the Geography Department.
As well as excellent communication skills, you must have high expectations of staff and students. You will consistently model excellent practice and have student achievement and progress at the forefront of your practice.
For the right candidate, the above post offers excellent potential for career development and will provide invaluable experience on which to build a platform for further promotion. If you can work effectively under pressure and want an exciting opportunity to work in a vibrant school that makes a difference – we want to hear from you.
For the right candidate, the above post offers excellent potential for career development and will provide invaluable experience on which to build a platform for further promotion. If you can work effectively under pressure and want an exciting opportunity to work in a vibrant school that makes a difference – we want to hear from you.
About North Durham Academy
Please visit our Recruitment Portal for more information on our current vacancies within the Trust Recruitment (accessacloud.com)
New College Durham Academies Trust (NCDAT) is an ambitious Multi Academy Trust based in North Durham. We have ambitions to grown but wish to remain a Durham MAT for local schools. The trust currently has 3 large secondary schools; Consett Academy and North Durham Academy and Wellfield School.
Our schools are at the heart of their local communities and strive to deliver on our founding principles of Inclusion, Progression and Excellence which supports a central vision of ‘Students First’.
The principle of inclusion provides opportunities for students of all abilities, aspirations and backgrounds and involving staff, governors, students and the wider community in determining the direction of our Trust. Our curriculums are broad and challenging, with the academic success of students at the heart of what we do.
To encourage progression, our schools provides effective advice and guidance. This enables learners to make informed and appropriate decisions for future study and employment, encouraging them to take on new challenges and reach higher levels of achievement.
The focus on excellence underpins all we do whether in learning areas, working in the community or governing and leading our schools.
The Trust recognises that safeguarding our children and young people is core to all our activities, and we expect all staff, volunteers and wider stakeholders to share this commitment.
Our Aims are:
- To ensure our schools are centres of excellence with a focus on the nurture and achievement of all their members;
- To promote mutual support, encouragement and benefit between our academies;
- To develop, as the core foundation of academic achievement, a strong culture of professional development amongst our staff;
- To celebrate and maintain the unique identity of communities we serve with each school at the heart of its community;
- To recognise and enable all those who often remain invisible, through ethnic or cultural disadvantage, or through disability or poverty to achieve their full potential.
At North Durham Academy, we are openly focused on the educational outcomes of our students and firmly believe that placing the student at the centre of everything we do will ensure that they leave with both the best possible grades and having had the best possible experiences throughout their time with us.
In order to realise this, we work with our vision in mind at all times:
“For all students and staff to want to learn and work at a good school; and for all parents/carers from our community to want to send their children to a good school.”
There are a number of key principles that underpin the vision, which are:
- Outstanding care for each and every individual
- A relentless drive and focus to ensure that each and every student achieves their true potential
- A focus on the quality of education and on high standards
- A broad and balanced curriculum
- A range of in-school and extra-curricular experiences to prepare our students for life in modern society
- Superb facilities which support and enhance learning at all levels including achievement and engagement
Ofsted
Message from Linda Rodham, Chief Executive Officer
It gives me great pleasure to be able to share our news with everyone, especially our students and community. For the first time since its creation in 2011, North Durham Academy has received Ofsted grading of “Good” in all categories. I am so proud of the students and staff who have worked so hard to achieve this recognition. North Durham Academy is a wonderful school and inspectors clearly recognised this. We have made improvements in every part of the school and we will continue to go from strength to strength, I am truly proud to be associated with our school and its community.
For interested candidates, I would encourage you to visit our fantastic campus to see for yourself the superb learning and working environment that we have. If you would like to arrange a visit, please email our HR Team at recruitment@ncdat.org.uk whereupon a mutually convenient date and time will be arranged.
For further information regarding our Academies and Students please visit our websites | North Durham Academy | Consett Academy (consett-academy.org.uk) Home - Wellfield School
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