Assistant Head of English
Fir Vale Academy, Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber
Competitive Teachers Pay Range + TLR2 (negotiable on appointment)
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About the job
What we would like from you:
- Monitoring and improving academic progress in liaison with the team of curriculum area leaders and other key colleagues.
- Identification of student groups within the school who need additional interventions in order to secure excellent outcomes.
- Strategic oversight of programmes of intervention delivered by staff, academic tutors and supporting the work of trust-level subject advisors.
- Overall leadership of interventions to support individuals and cohorts of students, including in-school time and interventions taking place outside normal school time.
- Providing high quality coaching and mentoring particularly focusing on new colleagues joining the department
- Supporting staff in setting and achieving aspirational targets for all students.
- Working as part of a highly effective leadership team to support the running of a calm, purposeful and positive academy.
About Fir Vale Academy
- Type of school
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 931 (room for 1,050)
- Free school meals
- 72.4% of pupils
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Address
- Owler Lane, Sheffield, S4 8GB
- Website
- Fir Vale Academy website
Last inspected by Ofsted on 25 February 2025, before report cards were introduced. Read the report
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