Job Description
About the Role:
Prospero Teaching is excited to announce an opportunity for a Assistant Head of Department (English) to join a secondary school in the Liverpool area. The successful applicant will assist in the management, organisation and teaching of English, to ensure that pupils achieve their full potential in this subject.
Assistant Head of Department
Location: Liverpool
Start Date: April 2027
Contract Type: Temporary, Long Term
Working Hours: Full-time, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Pay: Paid to scale
Key Responsibilities:
- Committed to establishing a strong classroom culture where every pupil can learn and make outstanding progress.
- Assist the Head of English in the management and teaching of English.
- Ensure that English is taught and assessed according to the National Curriculum and Examination Board requirements in Key Stages 3, 4 & 5.
- Monitor the quality of teaching and learning of English. This will include scrutiny of lesson plans, book sampling, ensuring that work is regularly and effectively marked, providing levels and guidance on how to improve performance.
- Lead on intervention and working with data to evaluate the department''s performance and inform interventions
- Provide advice on assessment decisions and arrange for the internal moderation / standardisation of marking coursework.
- Update teachers on any curriculum changes
- Carry out Performance Management Reviews of staff in the English Department.
- Plan and organise visits, trips and speakers
- Form Tutor to an assigned group of students.
Requirements:
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). English Secondary trained
- Substantial teaching experience with proven success as a classroom practitioner
- Experience and proof of successful planning and teaching at KS3, KS4 and KS5
- Experience of delivering innovative practice in English
- Ability to manage other teachers and monitoring the quality of teaching and learning
- Right to Work in the UK.
- Enhanced child barred list DBS certificate registered with the online update service, or willingness to apply for a new one.
- Ability to provide references that cover at least 24 months worked and where possible 2 roles where you have worked with children
How to Apply:
If you are interested in the above role, we would love to hear from you, please apply to this advert.
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Prospero Teaching is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.