Head of Department - Computing

Teaching Vacancies; Salford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free flu vaccinations

Job summary

Northern Education Trust is seeking an ambitious computing teacher to bring a knowledge-rich curriculum to life, set high expectations in every classroom, and inspire students across the trust.

You will lead a department or be ready to step into leadership, collaborating with NET's 17 secondary academies, delivering enrichment activities, and engaging with local employers to show where computing can take students.

Qualifications

• Ambitious computing teacher with excellent subject knowledge.
• Ability to lead and inspire colleagues.
• Commitment to safeguarding and high expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead teaching and learning across the computing curriculum.
• Grow your team through coaching and development.
• Raise the profile of Computing with enrichment and employer links.
• Drive student outcomes using assessment to ensure progress.
• Collaborate with NET colleagues across 17 academies.
• Coordinate trust-wide events and competitions.
• Pursue leadership routes with NET Staff College (career, not just a job).

Skills

Curriculum leadership

Team coaching

Industry connections

Student progression focus

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Lead teaching and learning - bring the trust's knowledge-rich curriculum to life and set high expectations in every classroom.
• Grow your team - coach, develop and inspire the colleagues you lead.
• Raise the profile of Computing - build enrichment such as coding clubs, competitions and links with local employers, so students see where the subject can take them.
• Drive outcomes - use assessment well to make sure every student, whatever their starting point, makes excellent progress.
• You won't start from scratch - a shared, carefully sequenced curriculum with lesson booklets for KS3, OCR GCSE Computer Science (J277) and OCR Creative iMedia (R093/R094), written by computing specialists in the trust.
• Specialist support - subject-specific guidance and coaching from the trust's Director of Computer Science.
• A network of colleagues - collaborate with computing teachers across NET's 17 secondary academies.
• Trust-wide events for students - give your students the chance to compete, create and shine beyond the classroom at trust events such as Cyber North and the NET Game Dev Jam.
• A career, not just a job - routes into trust-wide subject roles and senior leadership, supported by the NET Staff College.

About you

You are an ambitious, forward-thinking computing teacher with excellent subject knowledge and high expectations? You may already lead a department, or be ready to take your first step into leadership. Above all, you believe every young person deserves to understand - and shape - the technology around them.

What the school offers its staff

Northern Education Trust offers:

• The opportunity to work and progress across the family of schools, should you wish in the future;
• The chance to apply for leadership roles in the Deeps structure taking on a whole school leadership project;
• The support and expertise of Director of Subjects.
• A full and detailed programme of support and development for all;
• A further comprehensive programme of professional development, including leadership, provided through the NET Staff College.

Employee benefits

• Free flu vaccinations

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.