Subject Leader

Responsibilities

• Foster, by example, a spirit of academic inquiry and curiosity.
• Evaluate and implement the most effective teaching strategies in order to maximise subject learning.
• Meet throughout the year with your line manager to discuss agreed public examination targets for the department, and strategies being employed to achieve them.
• Meet formally with the Headteacher to review public examination results and progress towards agreed departmental targets.
• Coordinate assessments across all year groups. Lead in the scrutiny of academic data in order to track and promote student progress across the department.
• Be a part of the six-week cycle analysis at each reporting period, and utilise this as a means to impact student attainment within your subject.
• Be active in pursuing students whose attitude, learning or behaviour is giving any subject teacher cause for concern.
• Champion and ensure a flourishing presence of co-curricular activities for the subject, including trips and visits, an academic society, and associated clubs.
• Champion and ensure opportunities for student enrichment and extension are readily available for students across all year groups.
• Liaise with the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) to ensure relevant enrichment materials are available and being utilised by students to further their own exploration of your subject.
• Model excellent inclusive teaching within your own practice, offering an 'open door policy' to all staff within your department.
• Ensure all staff are aware of and implement appropriate strategies for students' individual needs, including any SEND, Medical, or Pastoral contexts, those for whom English is an Additional Language (EAL)
• Ensure a full programme of university support is available and tailored to individual students who wish to apply for your (or related) higher education courses, including ambitious support for Oxbridge applicants.
• To ensure the department engages with the mentoring of students engaged with enrichment or additional curriculum courses, such as Theory of Knowledge or Extended Essay
• Ensure departmental classrooms encourage behaviour for learning from students, and showcase the ambitious curriculum with which students are engaging.

• Lead on probation, appraisal, and professional development for all members of the department, focusing on its impact on student outcomes.
• Ensure all relevant processes are followed and completed for any Unqualified Teachers (UQTs), Early Career Teachers (ECTs), or SCITT teachers, under the direction of the Leadership Group.
• Conduct regular learning walks of the whole Department identifying best practice to share
• Conduct a formal lesson observation of each department teacher
• Intervene swiftly where there are concerns around staff performance in line with our teacher competencies, liaising with LG where appropriate.
• Conduct regular markbook, work, and learning scrutiny, focusing on individualised and effective use of formative and summative feedback to students, ensuring best practice is celebrated among the department, and intervene where marking policy is not being followed.
• Ensure effective cover for lessons where staff are absent.
• Develop a sense of teamwork throughout the department through the effective delegation of tasks and responsibilities.
• Ensure the appropriate provision and attendance of staff at both in-house and external professional development.
• Ensure, by example, that all staff in the department engage with teaching across year groups in order to further their own subject knowledge and expertise.
• Encourage, by example where possible, uptake as external examiners.

• Strive to better understand your subject and its development, including developments and opportunities in available external examination syllabi.
• Manage the departmental budget, ensuring cost effective spending of funds in line with student outcomes and development plan priorities
• Ensure each year group's Schemes of Work are fully prepared before each academic year, with an emphasis on differentiated student learning outcomes rather than procedural compliance.
• Meet with their line manager to discuss departmental…