Assistant Director of MFL
Shelley College, A SHARE Academy
Kirklees
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPR/UPR + TLR2B
- Job type:
- Full Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- Spring Term 2025
- Apply by:
- 13 October 2024
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a suitably qualified professional who is both passionate and knowledgeable to join our highly successful and well-led MFL department as Assistant Director of MFL.
The ability to demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching and learning in MFL is paramount. You will have a genuine commitment of working towards the aim of all students receiving a positive and inspiring experience of studying these subjects.
As an organisation that recognises individual strengths, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your individual strengths and areas of expertise. In conjunction with the other subject areas, the MFL department offer outstanding extra-curricular opportunities.
In return, we offer an excellent salary package, which generously rewards high performance; a supportive working environment; excellent support and training and employee benefits including an attractive pension scheme, an Employee Wellbeing Scheme and Share Academy Savers.
The School
Rated Outstanding by Ofsted, Shelley College is a proud partner academy in SHARE Multi-Academy Trust, a National Support School, and a National Teaching School. The academy is at the centre of a close-knit network that aims to provide the very best professional and career development opportunities for staff, and an excellent education for pupils. Shelly College has a sixth form, which is increasingly the top choice for students across Yorkshire, thanks to the high-quality teaching and pastoral offer which helps every single student thrive and prepare well for their next stage in life.
Students leave Shelley College fully equipped with the life skills, experiences, and educational outcomes to have a happy and successful future. Our staff are friendly and supportive of one another, with a strong sense of a committed team working together.
Shelley College is located in a beautiful rural area, within good commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield. The academy is proud to offer:
· A supportive and ambitious environment where all pupils students are encouraged to go beyond what they think they can achieve and to enjoy learning, helping them to lead successful, healthy and happy lives
· A vibrant place to work which equips staff to deliver their best every day, under the strong belief that Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best is the key
· A commitment that staff are happy, engaged and well supported at work, taking pride in students’ attendance, behaviour, progress and development as well as their own
· Excellent training and guidance relevant to individual job roles, so expectations are understood and staff are motivated
· Great benefits, as an employer of choice, including outstanding CPD, supportive line management, and meaningful networking opportunities across the Trust to aid personal development
· Supportive leadership, encouraging healthy work-life balance
· A high-quality teaching and learning environment, alongside good facilities
A culture where children are happy, settled and confident, accessing a broad and balanced curriculum which provides a memorable educational experience for pupils and staff.
The Trust
SHARE Multi Academy Trust comprises of Woodside Green Primary, Heaton Avenue Primary, Luck Lane Primary, Millbridge Primary, Royds Hall, Shelley College, Whitcliffe Mount School and Thornhill Community Academy. A central team provides a number of services including School Improvement, Finance, ICT, HR & Payroll, Premise & Compliance and Governance Services.
We believe in helping staff and students achieve their personal best and are keen to recruit the very best talent to our trust.
More than six hundred people work hard across the trust to ensure we provide the very best education and service across all our schools, from invigilators joining us for a few hours a year, through flexible part-time work to many full-time teaching and support roles.
There are many reasons why you will enjoy working for the trust. You will be surrounded by supportive people, working together with a common goal for all of our students, aiming to value and support all colleagues in order to help them achieve their personal best.
If you decide to join us, we will ensure you have what you need to make a positive difference in your education role. We will seek out your ideas and ask for your opinions regularly using staff voice.
Our CPD commitment is second to none and the training and developmental opportunities on offer will empower you to make improvements in all aspects of your role. The training you receive will help you fulfil your potential whatever your stage of career.
For teachers and leaders, we offer fast tracked, first class developmental opportunities led by one of our academies, Shelley College, which is the Teaching School Hub for Kirklees and Calderdale. This includes National Professional Qualifications (NPQs), lead practitioner positions and trainee senior leadership positions, which build upon our middle leadership programmes.
For more information, please download the application pack.
Closing date: Sunday 13th October 2024 at midnight.
In order to be considered for interview, you must fully complete the application form and demonstrate your ability to meet the requirements of the job by giving clear, concise examples of how you meet each criterion. Any applications that do not demonstrate how your abilities, skills and experience meet the requirements of the role, or any applications that have incomplete sections, unanswered questions or ‘please see CV’ will not be taken through to the shortlisting stage.
Please note that as part of our safer recruitment process, we cannot accept CVs.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to enhanced DBS disclosure and a 'prohibition from teaching' check will be completed for all applicants.
We are committed to Equal Opportunities and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and characteristics.
Attached documents
About Shelley College, A SHARE Academy
- Shelley College, A SHARE Academy
- Huddersfield Road, Shelley, Huddersfield
- West Yorkshire
- HD8 8NL
- United Kingdom
Our Vision and Values
We want every one of our students and members of staff to enjoy coming to our school and for all of us to try our very best in everything we do. We aim to help everybody gain the knowledge, skills and habits that can lead to a happy and successful life, both now and in the future. We summarise these aims as: “Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best”.
We believe that helping people feel valued increases the chances of them achieving their personal best, which is the highest standard we can expect anybody to achieve. We have five guiding values which we use to remind ourselves of how we want all of us to act at all times:
Consideration - We treat everybody as we would wish to be treated
Communication - We listen, explain and check understanding
Commitment - We keep trying until we have given our absolute best
Collaboration - We help people work together effectively
Celebration - We build confidence by recognising contributions and efforts.
Professional development
We aim to provide the very best professional and career development opportunities for all our staff. Being the lead sponsor of SHARE Multi Academy Trust, we offer a range of training and staff development opportunities, including visits to our partner schools, shared CPD sessions and sharing best practice across the trust.
In addition, we are extremely pleased to have the Calderdale and Kirklees Teaching School Hub based at Shelley College, delivering teacher training (ITT), the Early Career Framework (ECF) and the National Professional Qualifications.
At Shelley College and across many of our partner schools we have a number of Specialist Leaders of Education (SLE’s), Excellent and Lead Practitioners, trained ITT mentors, as well as outstanding leaders who offer the highest level of support and training. We provide staff with the opportunity to lead and support training across the trust. They also have access to nationally accredited courses including the Improving Teacher Programme (ITP), Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP), NPQML, NPQSL and NPQH, as well as leading on research projects.
We operate a supportive appraisal system, allowing individual staff to develop their career through specific targets and training, as well as supporting our whole school priorities. There are many examples of how staff at Shelley have benefited from this high level of investment resulting in rapid career progression. Whatever your role or whatever your career plans, we can help you achieve them.
Location
We are in located in the village of Skelmanthorpe in the Huddersfield/Kirklees district. We have possibly the best rural location of any secondary school in the country, but are still in close proximity to a number of towns and cities including Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield. Due to the excellent road links, journey times are minimal, with many of our staff travelling from these areas on a daily basis.
Facilities
In recent years, we have invested millions of pounds to improve our facilities. Some examples include a fully refurbished library, annual improvements to our ICT infrastructure and equipment, state of the art science labs, art classrooms, new outdoor social areas, a new main hall, new dining areas for staff and students, new outdoor floodlit sports facilities and brand-new toilets throughout college.
Benefits
In addition to the Share Multi-Academy Trust benefits that are offered to all employees, there are staff benefits that are specific to Shelley College. Extra-curricular clubs aren’t only for students! Staff activities have included sports such as badminton tournaments and creative ventures such as clay club.
Excursions and trips have a strong history at Shelley College and staff are encouraged to get involved. In recent years trips have included art trips to Paris or Amsterdam, ski trips to Italy and Camps International trips to Kenya.
Staff
Our staff are our most valuable asset. They are friendly and supportive of each other and there is a strong sense of a committed team working together. There are examples across our staffing body of individuals who have developed from students to trainees to teachers and apprentices to team leaders.
Get to know more about the opportunities of working for us by looking through our staff career profiles.
Recruitment process
Once you have completed and submitted your application form, it will be reviewed by the shortlisting panel. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview via email, so please ensure you provide us with your email address and check it regularly after the closing date.
Referees will be contacted via email prior to interviews as references need to be returned to us before any offer of appointment can be made, for safer recruitment purposes. Please ensure you provide a contact email address for both of your referees.
The Trust
SHARE Multi Academy Trust currently consists of Shelley College, Thornhill Community Academy, Royds Hall Community School, Whitcliffe Mount School, Heaton Avenue Primary School, Millbridge Primary School, Lily Park Primary School, Luck Lane Primary School, Woodside Green Primary School with a view to continue to expand.
Our aims
We want to create a mutually supportive family of schools because we believe that, by sharing our expertise and resources, we can improve the quality of education for our children and young people.
Our values
Our central belief is “Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best” and we apply this to everybody in our organisation, staff and children alike. We aim to treat everybody with respect and build positive relationships with each other and we want everybody working in our schools to do the very best they can. We support each other and celebrate our successes together.
And finally
Good luck in your application!
We look forward to hearing from you.
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