Assistant Head of Maths (with Key Stage Lead Responsibility)

Co-op Academy North Manchester; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Co-op member discount

Discounted gym membership

Cycle to work scheme

Credit Union

Season ticket loans

Job summary

Co-op Academy North Manchester is seeking an ambitious Assistant Head of Maths to join the Maths leadership team with KS lead responsibility. The successful candidate will help shape our well-established KS3/KS4 curricula and drive high standards across teaching and learning, ensuring pupils master key concepts and achieve their best.

We value collaborative professionals who model positive values and are committed to improving pupil outcomes.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint an additional Assistant Head of Maths to the Maths leadership team (with Key Stage lead responsibility)

The successful candidate will be joining the department at an exciting time, following on from an academic year where our pupils achieved record-breaking Maths results for the academy. In addition to this, following a 4 year developmental journey, our KS3 and KS4 curricula are well positioned to enable our pupils to master key concepts across the subject and achieve their best. This is the perfect time for a member of staff to join the team, bring new ideas and continue to push our vision forward.

We are looking for a candidate who demonstrates unconditional positive regard for young people and who has the highest expectations of themselves and others and with an ambition to make a difference. You will have the opportunity to lead within the department and to further develop it. You will be joining a team of highly skilled and committed professionals who are relentless in the pursuit of excellence to improve the life chances of our pupils. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and will be highly effective in promoting and securing excellence for all. You will have the drive and ambition to help drive forward excellence in teaching and learning within the Maths department.

Why us?

Here at Co-op Academy North Manchester, we take time to know our pupils and have the highest expectations and aspirations for them. Our pupils are polite, courteous and excellent relationships are at the heart of our success. The academy prides itself on offering a rich curriculum that includes an extensive range of extra-curricular activities and clubs; we promote an understanding of the world in which we live and the difference that our pupils can make within it. Our Safeguarding/PSHE/SMSC and CEIAG offer is a strength of the academy and pupils develop a range of skills that enable them to be confident and to be themselves always.

All our values are based upon the values of the Co-op Group, which will inform our behaviours.

Self-help: We do not expect to be spoon fed – we will try to do things for ourselves in the right way and at the right time.

Self-responsibility: Everyone should act in a responsible way around the academy site and in the local community. We take responsibility for our own learning; we want to become independent learners.

Equality: We are proud to be part of a very multicultural academy, with students from all over the world; it is important that we treat each other with respect and accept that others may be different from ourselves. We should all of us have equal chances to succeed.

Equity: We want to look for the best in each other. Rewarding others fairly to encourage all types of achievement.

Democracy: We will contribute our ideas to make the academy a success.

Solidarity: We can achieve more by working together, rather than as individuals.

Our Values

Being part of the Co-operative Group, we are both guided and driven by the Co-op values which are embedded in everything that we do within our Academy - We strive to demonstrate the following ethical values in everything we do - they are our ‘Ways of Being’:

Succeed together

Do what matters most

Be yourself, always

Show you care

So, if you believe in our values, we would love to hear from you!

We offer a wide range of benefits and rewards to recognise the part you play in our success:

Benefits include:

Our employee benefits package includes:

You’ll get being a Co-op member, you’ll get a Co-op colleague discount card. This gives you a 10% discount in our Co-op Food stores.

Co-operative flexible benefits (discounted line rental and broadband package, family care advice and cycle to work scheme)

Discounted gym membership and leisure activities which includes discounts on Merlin Entertainments (Sea Life, Legoland etc), Virgin Experience Days, SuperBreak and many more!

Co-operative Credit Union: save directly from your salary and receive a competitive dividend. Borrowers can benefit from very competitive interest rates & terms (in comparison with other high street lenders)

Co-op Funeral care benefit

Season ticket and rental deposit loans

And More!

For more information about the Co-op Academies Trust, please visit: www.coopacademies.co.uk

The Trust is also committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnerships.