Job description and person specification - Eteach

The Stourport High School & VIth Form CentreJob Description• Establish clear targets for student achievement and evaluate progress and achievement by allstudents, including those with exceptional ability and those with special educational needs andlinguistic needs.• Use data effectively to identify students who are underachieving and, where necessary, createand implement effective plans of action to support those students.Relations with Parents and Wider CommunitySubject Leaders are expected to contribute to at least one aspect of the following• Establish a partnership with parents to involve them in their child's learning of the subject, aswell as providing information about curriculum, attainment, progress and targets.• Develop effective links with the local community, including business and industry, in order toextend the subject, enhance teaching and develop the students' wider understanding.• Communicate effectively, orally and in writing with parents, governors, external agencies andthe wider community, including business and industry.Managing Own Performance and Development• Prioritise and manage own time effectively, particularly in relation to balancing the demandsmade by teaching, subject management and involvement in school development.• Achieve challenging professional goals.• Take responsibility for their own professional development.Managing and Developing Staff and Other Adults – under direction of the HoF, takeresponsibility for aspects of:• Helping staff to achieve constructive working relationships with students.• Establishing clear expectations and constructive working relationships among staff, includingthrough team working and mutual support; devolving responsibilities and delegating tasks,appropriate evaluating of practice and developing an acceptance of accountability.• Appraising staff as required by the school policy on Performance Management and use theprocess to develop the personal and professional effectiveness of the teacher.• Leading professional development through example and support, and co-ordinate the provisionof high quality professional development by methods such as coaching or drawing on othersources of expertise as necessary, for example higher education, LEAs and subjectassociations.• Ensuring that trainee and newly qualified teachers are appropriately trained, monitored,supported and assessed in relation to standards for the award of Qualified Teacher Status, theCareer Entry Profiles and standards for induction.• Attending Academic Board meetings and other meetings as outlined in the meetings policy andpractice – as required due to absence.Managing Resources – support the HoF in managing resources so that the HoF may:• Establish staff and resource needs and advise the Principal and leadership group of likelypriorities for expenditure, and allocate available resources with maximum efficiency to meet theobjectives of the school and subject plans and achieve value for money.• Deploy or advise the Principal on the deployment of staff involved in the subject, to ensure thebest use of subject, technical and other expertise.• Ensure the effective and efficient management and organisation of learning resources, includinginformation and communications technology.Date of issue: September 13 Page 4