Westminster City School
Location
Westminster, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Are you ambitious to lead a growing department to greater success?
Are you passionate about how high-quality curriculum thinking, planning and delivery can transform young people’s lives?
Are you able to bring the best out in colleagues, working collaboratively to deliver on challenging targets?
We are seeking to appoint a knowledgeable and ambitious Economics specialist who can lead a successful Enterprise Faculty to further success following the promotion of the current Postholder to Senior Leadership within our school. The Faculty has seen significant growth in A Level numbers for both Business Studies and Economics with 6 different A Level classes alongside popular GCSE and BTEC options at key stage 4. The successful candidate will also oversee the Pathways to Finance initiative which allows 6th Form students to understand different routes into the Financial Services industry. The school’s location means that it has strong links with a range of global companies and this role would see the successful candidate leveraging further connections.
The post offers an exciting opportunity for someone looking to move into middle leadership or someone looking to broaden their management experience ahead of taking the step up to senior leadership. As such, this role will provide opportunities for leadership development including secondment to the Leadership Group. Applicants from a GMH background are strongly encouraged with the school actively involved in the Church of England’s ‘Leaders Like Us’ programme to support teachers from underrepresented heritages into senior leadership.
The candidate:
You, like us, will share our belief in the highest standards of academic attainment in a comprehensive setting.
The successful candidate will have:
· Strong personal values of integrity and compassion
· Excellent subject knowledge and a commitment to continually developing it
· Experience of developing and delivering an excellent Economics and Business Studies curriculum
· Strong knowledge of curriculum and assessment thinking
· The ability to motivate a strong team to deliver excellent student outcomes.
· A keen interest in developing leadership and management skills
· Cognisance of current best practice and want to foster in others a research-based approach to designing and implementing a highly impactful Enterprise curriculum.
You will deliver lessons to a consistently high standard, and you will have a proven track record of excellent outcomes at GCSE and A level.
You will be joining a team of highly skilled subject leaders who are ambitious in ensuring our vision of a powerful knowledge curriculum enables all pupils to take part in the great conversations in society.
"Leaders have introduced a broad and ambitious curriculum for all…and have thought carefully about how to capture students’ wider interest in the subjects they learn." OFSTED 2022
We believe in developing our staff and have a dynamic and supportive management team and an effective CPD programme which includes a regular teaching and learning forum, peer-coaching and teacher journal club. At Westminster City School, we will offer you:
· A supportive and collegiate staff culture;
· An evidence-informed approach to teaching and learning;
· A bespoke CPD programme; and
· Staff benefits, including an interest-free season ticket loan and cycle-to-work scheme
Westminster City School is a successful 11-18 boys’ Christian non-denominational comprehensive academy with a heavily oversubscribed, mixed sixth form. This year there were over 2000 applications for places in our 6th Form. Ours is a vibrant learning community situated in the heart of central London with all the opportunities and advantages of an inner-city school. In March 2022, the school’s OFSTED inspection confirmed that the school remains a ‘Good’ school, but we are restless in our ambition to be ‘Outstanding’ in time for the school’s 150th anniversary in 2027.
“Leaders and Governors are proud of and ambitious for the school. They consider staff workload carefully, for example when introducing recent changes to the school’s feedback policy” OFSTED 2022
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will need to undertake a criminal record check via the DBS.
If you would like to apply for this post, please click apply now (below) to obtain and submit our application form. If for any reason this is not possible, please print out the application and send your completed form by post to the school or e-mail [email protected]
If you would like to discuss the role informally with the Associate Assistant Headteacher via phone or video call or to talk informally with the Headteacher please e-mail [email protected] (PA to Headteacher). You may also wish to visit our website (to research more about the school.
Closing date for completed applications: Thursday 21 March at noon.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 26 March 2024.
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