Head of English

**Reference number**

BUC08343

**Contract type**

Permanent

**Working hours**

Full Time

**Level of DBS check required**

Enhanced with Barred List

**Date posted**

14 Mar 2023, 11 p.m.

**Application deadline**

31 Aug 2023

**Overview**:
**Term time only**

**Salary Type**:MPS/UPS

**Salary details**:MPS/UPS

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Hours**:TMS / UPS Scale + TLR2 (2) + Recruitment & Retention allowance depending on experience

**Closing date**:31/08/2023 00:00

**Interviews to be held**:To be arranged with applicant

**Required for: September 2023**

**About us**:
Aylesbury UTC is a growing, non-selective school with students aged 14-19 who come from a very wide area including Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire. We have an excellent reputation for supporting young people from diverse backgrounds in their pursuit for purposeful destinations. Our students successfully secure competitive university places, apprenticeships and employment positions. Importantly, we gain huge satisfaction from seeing students successfully joining local job sectors. We are proud of the careers focus throughout the school and we aim to support young people no matter what their chosen pathway.

Students enjoy a huge range of employer engagement opportunities such as work placements, mentoring, guest speakers, workshops, site visits and industry-specific projects. We have strong links with large multi-national and local organisations alike and we are particularly proud of the excellent working relationships with our local community.

Outside of the core curriculum, students predominantly complete vocational courses as these provide opportunities to gain valuable technical qualifications and offer more flexibility than academic course. However, from September 2023 we will be offering T-Level Health and from 2024, T-Level Digital. We review courses regularly to ensure that specific modules and qualifications match our students’ and industry needs, giving students the strongest possible start to their careers. We are very fortunate to have industry-standard facilities which are frequently commented upon by visitors and students as being inspiring. Throughout the curriculum there are industry links and practical activities to ensure that students leave us with the experience and techniques to be able to thrive in their next steps.

Our students join us because they have a passion for the Computing / Digital, Health Care / Social Care or Building Studies sectors and they want to specialise in one of these. We are an inclusive school in a selective Buckinghamshire educational landscape and are determined to serve our local community well. Students of all abilities thrive at Aylesbury UTC and we pride ourselves on ensuring that every student fulfils their potential.

Staff - teaching, support and associate - are happy at Aylesbury UTC. Professional development is important to us and our programme is varied but also bespoke to support individual needs and priorities. Our annual two-day Teaching and Learning Conference is probably the highlight of this programme. We embrace the inevitable challenges of working with young people and staff are supportive of each other. It is an excellent place to work and we are committed to staff wellbeing and a healthy work-life balance for all our colleagues.

This post would be ideal for someone with experience of teaching English to achieve strong outcomes for the students they serve but we also recognise that it may be right for someone who is looking to make a mark in the early stages of their career.

**About the role**:
Main purpose
The Head of English will take lead responsibility for providing leadership and management of the English Team to secure:
Ø High-quality teaching & learning
Ø High standards of academic achievement for all students
Ø Effective use of resources

Duties and responsibilities
Strategic direction
Ø Develop and implement policies in line with our school’s commitment to high-quality teaching and learning
Ø Promote English, its importance, and the value that it brings across the school
Ø Work with the special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO) to ensure the curriculum matches the needs of different pupils, such as disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)
Ø Promote careers education through English and ensure that teaching and learning illustrates how English might lead to career opportunities
Ø Use additional staff in English to ensure there is a framework for deployments and that teaching assistants are deployed effectively
Ø Liaise with our feeder schools on the transition to secondary school with regards to English to ensure that progression is built into the curriculum
Ø Liaise with the Employer Engagement lead to ensure that EE is an integral part of students’ experiences of English
Ø Alongside a member of SLT, lead the strategic development of literacy throughout the school
Ø Alongsi