We are seeking an exceptional Deputy Director of English to join our team at Harris Academy Sutton. As a key member of our English department, you will play a vital role in shaping the educational experience of our students.

The successful candidate will be responsible for deputising for the Subject Coordinator, assisting in leading the creation and establishment of outstanding provision within the subject area. This will include all programmes, systems, and structures, taking account of the academy's values and vision, leading to outstanding teaching and learning.

You will be accountable for student progress and development in the subject area across KS3, KS4, and post-16, including meeting student achievement targets for subject areas agreed by the Principal and the Governing Body.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operational and strategic planning, including contributing to the subject and faculty improvement plans, and assisting in the development of appropriate syllabuses, resources, schemes of work, marking policies, assessment, and teaching strategies
• Ensuring the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high-quality, and cost-effective curriculum and leading development of the subject and its delivery
• Staff development, including assisting in recruiting, building, and managing an effective team of motivated staff
• Student outcomes, including assisting the director in ensuring the effective operation of target setting, monitoring, and evaluation systems and the input and maintenance of accurate student data
• Pastoral system, including being a form tutor to a selected group of students
• Teaching, including acting as an outstanding role model

Requirements

The successful candidate will:

• Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree
• Have a minimum of one year's teaching experience
• Have proven success in raising achievement
• Show a high level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement
• Have recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development
• Show good understanding of creative whole-school strategies for improving literacy and numeracy and the importance of this in raising achievement
• Have experience of embedding innovative strategies for Assessment for Learning and Learning to Learn
• Be willing to use coaching as a model for ensuring on-going professional development
• Have a proven ability to identify and implement strategies to raise standards of Teaching and Learning

What We Offer

We offer a competitive rewards and benefits package, including our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.

We believe that a happy and settled staff body helps drive the very best performance from our students. We are committed to a high-quality professional development programme and can draw on expertise from across the Harris Federation.

We work in an award-winning building with excellent facilities. Our thriving staff association ensures all new members of staff soon feel part of the HASU community.

We run a broad and diverse curriculum to a fully comprehensive intake of students.

Our focus on the core value of Integrity means that our behaviour is excellent, with staff supported by a strong and highly visible Academy Leadership Group. Detentions are run centrally, allowing teaching staff to do what they do best: plan and teach amazing lessons.

Attendance and engagement with learning is high, and centrally planned tutor time resources ensure that our tutors can engage with students whilst delivering high-quality experiences.

We are located in Sutton, with good public transport and road links. Central London (Clapham, Victoria) is 25 minutes away. We are on the Surrey border so journeys do not take long in fact journeys from Kent only take just over 30 minutes by car. We have safe and secure onsite parking with electric charging points.