Trust Lead for curriculum development: Science (and PSHE)

Reports to:                          Chief Academic Officer

Start date:                            ASAP

Salary range:                      £50,000 - £60,000

Contract:                             Permanent

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The Role

The Trust Lead for Science will promote and implement strategies for improving attainment in Science across the Trust, significantly through curriculum development and associated activity.  Working in partnership with senior School Improvement Partners, other Trust Leads, Principals, Heads of Department and Aldridge staff, the role involves a strategic overview of the subject across the Trust and the postholder is the leader of subject development for the Trust.  The key responsibility for this postholder is curriculum writing and development but this will include engagement with related areas such as modelling strong practice with new units of work, testing materials, assessment writing, standardisation and moderation, network meetings and national inset days.  The postholder will also work with subject leaders across the Trust to support curriculum development in PSHE, ensuring that we build a strength of resource in more than just our core subjects.

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Key responsibilities

Curriculum development

• Provide the strategic lead for curriculum development in a range of subjects at both primary and secondary phase
• Be a joint-owner of the curriculum review tool and ongoing thinking, research and review to ensure that Trust curriculum thinking is evidence-based and high-quality. Make recommendations to the CEO for changes and developments to Trust thinking and practice.
• Write curriculum materials for your core subject area, ensuring that it fully meets the requirements of our curriculum review tool and developments we make to our curriculum best practice models
• Ensure that all components of our data-informed approach are incorporated into curriculum materials
• Test out materials through visits to schools and other activity to allow you to work with our teaching staff to listen, consult, review and refine
• Provide exemplar materials and model best practice in the delivery of (particularly new) units of work for staff team around the country
• Consider requests from schools around particular units and other resources that would be useful to have created and support these as agreed with your line manager and based upon prioritation of work
• Work with PSHE leaders and support them in creating curriculum materials that meet the Aldridge standard as per the work in your specialist core subject. This includes writing components of these curriculum materials, as much as is possible in a non-specialist area
• Liaise closely with these subject leads across the Trust to ensure that they receive strong Trust support

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  Assessment

• Write and produce formal formative assessments such as mock papers for the Trust, leading on the choice of past papers and ensuring mark schemes are fit for purpose
• Train departmental staff in standardisation sessions prior to marking and then lead the moderation process after marking
• Analyse mock data for years 10 and 11 and flag up strengths and gaps to the executive team with recommendations for required actions. Work with schools to support them to provide targeted and timely intervention

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  Networking activity and training

• Lead regional subject initiatives and meetings; sharing, innovating and disseminating good practice, including co-planning and moderation
• Take part in writing and delivering national inset day content as required
• Write and run ITT and other subject-specific training for the Trust as requested by the Head of Professional Development
• Lead on Trust-wide projects such as commonly-used diversity units, Trust-wide competition etc
• Support regional and academy-level work to ensure that curriculum decisions are appropriate
• Support staff with planning through co-planning sessions and train staff to close gaps using Trust agreed strategies for achieving this
• Ensure that subject knowledge, curriculum understanding and pedagogy around GCSE and GCE specifications are facilitated in allocated academies

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Other

• Take part in monitoring and review work across the Trust as requested by the CEO
• Support recruitment work as requested by the CEO
• Undertake other various responsibilities as directed by the line manager
• Work in alignment with and promote our Trust Operating Norms
• Undertake the main professional duties of a member of staff as set out in the Aldridge pay and conditions of service document
• Comply fully with Aldridge policies and procedures, aligned with Aldridge’s ethos of high aspirations and high expectations which lead to strong outcomes for our students

Please follow the link to apply: Job Openings (peoplehr.net)

Student Engagement Programme Manager 

Reporting to:             Head of SEP programme

Working basis:  8.00am – 4.00pm (Monday – Thursday) and 8.00-3.30pm Friday, 37 hours per week, term time (plus inset) only

Salary: NJC 23-24, Pro-rata salary: £25,933.92 - £26,749.33

About the Role:
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PACA is seeking to appoint a Pastoral and Behaviour Support Manager to work with a select group of approximately 25 students who struggle to engage with mainstream school for reasons of behaviour management or anxiety. Under the dedicated leadership of the Head of the Student Engagement Programme, this role is to support these students to remove barriers to learning and meet their needs to success in school. These students will have a mix of mainstream and bespoke timetables providing them with a curriculum that better meets their needs.   

Key Duties:

• Running specific sessions for small groups of students (usually around 5) to develop their self-esteem, and problem solving / team building skills;
• Maintaining contact with families to build productive home school relationships;
• Supporting students in behaviour management during the school day;
• Addressing and investigating safeguarding concerns for these students as they arise;
• Monitoring student engagement in alternative provision.

Deadline for applications: 19th November 2023

The Principal reserves the right to interview an outstanding candidate prior to the closing date without notice.

About the school:

PACA is a thriving mixed comprehensive school serving the communities of Portslade, Southwick, Shoreham and Hove.  We are an academy, but are also well integrated into the family of Brighton and Hove schools.

In the last five years, PACA has doubled in size to its current capacity of 980 students.  Our 2021 Ofsted report noted: “Pupils and staff agree that, despite the ongoing growth of the school, everyone at PACA is known”, and “Pupils recognise that staff want the very best for them… This is reflected in calm and purposeful lessons”.

About Aldridge Education:

PACA is a member of the Aldridge Education family of schools, which locally also includes Brighton Aldridge Community Academy and Aldridge Adult Learning.

Aldridge Education is a charitable Trust of entrepreneurial community schools and colleges. Aldridge Education supports our schools’ Principals and teachers in rapidly improving the quality of education on offer at early years, primary, secondary and sixth-form levels in order to transform the life-chances of our students.

Key benefits of working for Aldridge Education
​Aldridge Benefits scheme
Cycle to Work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible working opportunities
Free on-site parking
Generous annual leave allowance which increases after 5 years' service
Opportunity to join the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme
Refer a Friend scheme

Operating Norms

We believe that the way we operate at all times and with all partners is of paramount importance.

Our agreed operating norms are as follows:

• We are Aldridge Education
• The standard is excellence
• We champion equality
• We’re in the work together
• We behave with integrity
• We lead by example
• We use time well

Safeguarding Statement:
​Aldridge Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. 
​Where the role for which you are applying involves engaging in regulated activity, it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

A copy of Aldridge Education’s Child Protection policy is available on our website at www.aldridgeeducation.org

Following successful application, Aldridge Education will carry out the necessary prohibition checks for all teaching staff, as well as for all candidates undertaking regulated activity.
​If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, you will be required to complete a Declaration giving details of any relevant criminal offences and other relevant information relating to our safeguarding duty. Further information will be provided on that form.

Any offer of employment will be made conditional upon a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and barred list check (where applicable to the role in question).
​If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, Aldridge Education will undertake online searches (including social media) in accordance with KCSIE 2022.

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

We may interview candidates ahead of the closing date so early application is advised. The Academy reserves the right to interview and appoint prior to the advertised closing date. The advert may be closed at any time.​