Subject Lead Geography at Orion Eden Park and Geography Lead across the Trust

Based at Orion Eden Park

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.  

To improve outcomes, transform lives and enable social mobility. 

• To live the vison and values 
• To lead subject area 
• To be accountable for student progress and development throughout the subject area including meeting student achievement targets 
• To ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the subject area through continuously, developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning 
• To ensure the provision of an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students  
• To ensure that all academy policies and procedures are implemented and applied consistently by all staff in the subject area 
• To assist the Head of Faculty to effectively and efficiently manage and deploy teaching/support staff, financial and physical resources across the subject area. 
• To share and support the academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth. 

Teaching 

• To undertake an appropriate programme of teaching in accordance with the duties of a standard scale teacher. 
• To plan and prepare courses and lessons in line with academy policy. 
• To contribute to the whole academy's planning activities. 
• To assess, record and report on the attendance, progress, development and attainment of students and to keep such records as are required. 
• To provide, or contribute to, oral and written assessments, reports and references relating to individual students and groups of students. 
• To undertake a designated programme of teaching. 
• To ensure a high-quality learning experience for students that meets internal and external quality standards. 
• To prepare and update subject materials. 
• To ensure effective and efficient deployment of classroom support. 
• To use a variety of delivery methods that will stimulate learning appropriate to student needs and demands of the syllabus. 
• To maintain discipline in accordance with the academy's procedures and to encourage good practice with regard to punctuality, behaviour, standards of work and homework. 
• To undertake assessment of students as requested by external examination bodies, subject area and academy procedures. 
• To mark, grade and give written/verbal and diagnostic feedback as required. 
• To teach students according to their educational needs, including the setting and marking of work to be carried out by the student in the academy and elsewhere. 
• To ensure that ICT, Literacy, Numeracy, PHSE and Work-Related Learning are reflected in the teaching/learning experience of students 

Main Duties and Responsibilities - Geography EBACC Lead across the Trust 

• To ensure a fully aligned curriculum and assessment structure that has impact across all Orion schools 
• To lead HODs in continuing to align curriculum, assessments and teaching resources. 
• Offer support and advice to the other HODs around subject specific actions such as DIPs/data analysis/intervention plans etc. 
• Support in subject specific deep dives across the trust where needed  
• Half termly meetings with HODs to lead the workflow. 
• Within half termly subject meetings, lead the subject HOD team, sharing curriculum resources and the quality assurance of these – (Long term plans, progression maps, knowledge organisers, medium term plans, base lessons, assessments, intervention) 
• Co-ordinate, develop and /or create subject specific curriculum documents that are shared across all schools including: 

 LTPs, MTPs, KOs, Progression maps, Base lessons 

• Quality assure all curriculum documents and give feedback to those who have created them to ensure they are the best  
• Use the Curriculum spreadsheet to develop a renewal process of curriculum from QA and use every half term 
• Evaluate the work done on curriculum in your subject twice a year to feed back to Trust members 
• To visit schools to QA implementation of the shared curriculum  
• Develop preparation materials for assessments / PPEs 
• Ensure that results from any testing, that flags gaps across cohorts, leads to a development of the curriculum planning.  
• Quality assure all end of unit tests, and use of the workbook tracking on Arbor. 
• Creation of aligned assessments for KS3 and KS4 alongside other subject HODs 
• To ensure a trust wide aligned approach to standardisation and moderation for assessments 
• To lead all Trust wide standardisation and moderation meetings 
• Review Trust wide data and lead in a Trust wide response 

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.