Curriculum Leader, Health and Social Care - Aylesbury Vale Academy
| Posting date: | 16 September 2024 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 September 2024 |
| Location: | HP18 0WS |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Buckinghamshire Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BUC12377 |
Summary
Overview
We are a highly supportive school with strong subject and senior leadership to help you develop. We are looking for a highly ambitious, committed and dynamic professional to lead our Health and Social Care department; someone who is passionate about their subject, communicates well with young people and makes a positive impact on their learning.
The Health and Social Care department comprises of 2 full-time teachers, one of whom is Head of 6th Form. We work collaboratively to support each other both with the demands of our work and our wellbeing.
Term time only
Salary Type: MPS/UPS
Salary details: MPS/UPS plus £1250 for a direct successful applicant
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Closing date: 27th September 2024; 12:00
Interviews to be held: Week Commencing, 5th October 2024
About us
The Aylesbury Vale Academy is a large, vibrant and warm community of over 200 staff. Staff wellbeing, happiness and job satisfaction is essential to ensuring the school achieves it's goals. We value our staff and provide a welcoming and supportive working environment in which they can develop as professionals and progress in their careers. We are committed to our status as a workplace signed up to the DfE Wellbeing Charter and continuously review our practices to improve school culture and workload.
We look for staff who want to share in our vision for children and young people, but who also want to work as part of a close-knit caring and supportive staff team. Personalised CPD is important to us and we provide all staff with free access to courses through out subscription to the National College.
There are a wide range of staff benefits that are available to all members of staff employed directly by The Aylesbury Vale Academy. Some of the benefits include:
A workplace fully committed to the principles of the DfE Wellbeing Charter
- Priority admissions for school staff
- Bespoke CPD that is often self-directed
- Free employee assistance programme - 24/7 phone line for free emotional, bereavement and financial concerns
- Well-embedded systems that provide clear structures at the same time as allowing individuals to work with autonomy
- 10% discount on pre-school places
- 10% discount on Primary wraparound care
- 25% discount on the use of the Lettings facilities (sport pitches, sports hall, drama studios, community suite and party rooms)
About the role
The Health and Social Care department offers the NCFE Cache Level 1/2 Technical Award in Health and Social Care from Year 9. In Year 12 and 13, we offer the BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (single award) and Extended Diploma (triple award).
Our students develop from work placements in our pre-school and primary and we also provide for apprenticeships Post-16.
About you
The successful candidate will have a passion about learning, have strong inter-personal skills, be resilient, be an excellent teacher and have great subject knowledge, including experience of a number of Level 2 and Level 3 specifications.
They will be able to deliver Health and Social Care up to KS5. The successful candidate will be expected to help run after school activities which is likely to focus on interventions.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below. We don't accept CVs.
Tel No: 01296 428551
Email: vacancies@theacademy.me
Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.
Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the recruitment process and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and an online screening check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
We are a highly supportive school with strong subject and senior leadership to help you develop. We are looking for a highly ambitious, committed and dynamic professional to lead our Health and Social Care department; someone who is passionate about their subject, communicates well with young people and makes a positive impact on their learning.
The Health and Social Care department comprises of 2 full-time teachers, one of whom is Head of 6th Form. We work collaboratively to support each other both with the demands of our work and our wellbeing.
Term time only
Salary Type: MPS/UPS
Salary details: MPS/UPS plus £1250 for a direct successful applicant
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Closing date: 27th September 2024; 12:00
Interviews to be held: Week Commencing, 5th October 2024
About us
The Aylesbury Vale Academy is a large, vibrant and warm community of over 200 staff. Staff wellbeing, happiness and job satisfaction is essential to ensuring the school achieves it's goals. We value our staff and provide a welcoming and supportive working environment in which they can develop as professionals and progress in their careers. We are committed to our status as a workplace signed up to the DfE Wellbeing Charter and continuously review our practices to improve school culture and workload.
We look for staff who want to share in our vision for children and young people, but who also want to work as part of a close-knit caring and supportive staff team. Personalised CPD is important to us and we provide all staff with free access to courses through out subscription to the National College.
There are a wide range of staff benefits that are available to all members of staff employed directly by The Aylesbury Vale Academy. Some of the benefits include:
A workplace fully committed to the principles of the DfE Wellbeing Charter
- Priority admissions for school staff
- Bespoke CPD that is often self-directed
- Free employee assistance programme - 24/7 phone line for free emotional, bereavement and financial concerns
- Well-embedded systems that provide clear structures at the same time as allowing individuals to work with autonomy
- 10% discount on pre-school places
- 10% discount on Primary wraparound care
- 25% discount on the use of the Lettings facilities (sport pitches, sports hall, drama studios, community suite and party rooms)
About the role
The Health and Social Care department offers the NCFE Cache Level 1/2 Technical Award in Health and Social Care from Year 9. In Year 12 and 13, we offer the BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (single award) and Extended Diploma (triple award).
Our students develop from work placements in our pre-school and primary and we also provide for apprenticeships Post-16.
About you
The successful candidate will have a passion about learning, have strong inter-personal skills, be resilient, be an excellent teacher and have great subject knowledge, including experience of a number of Level 2 and Level 3 specifications.
They will be able to deliver Health and Social Care up to KS5. The successful candidate will be expected to help run after school activities which is likely to focus on interventions.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below. We don't accept CVs.
Tel No: 01296 428551
Email: vacancies@theacademy.me
Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.
Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the recruitment process and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and an online screening check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
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