Job Details
We are looking for a highly-skilled Principal Teacher Curriculum who is passionate about improving life chances for all through a professional commitment to leading change and improvement that ensures positives outcomes for our children and young people. As a principal teacher in Fife you will be responsible for supporting the senior leadership team by contributing to the strategic vision for the school, working with a wide range of stakeholders to implement and pursue the objectives set in policies, and for contributing to the development of a self-improving system across the education community.
Specific duties include:
1. Direct line management responsibility for allocated staff in English, Modern Languages & Media: performance management of staff, absence monitoring and attendance procedures, discipline and competency procedures, PRD, CPD, assist with selection and recruitment of staff.
2. Lead and manage raising attainment and achievement, attendance, behaviour management and relationships, curriculum offer, curriculum pathways, learning, teaching & assessment, and pedagogy within the faculty.
3. Responsible for producing and leading faculty improvement plan and contribute to the management of the school improvement planning process.
4. Be accountable for allocated budgets and the effective deployment of resources.
5. Responsible for overseeing work with the Primary Cluster via the PT1 Literacy.
Be aware of health and safety requirements and apply these as appropriate.
Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements
You are required to have high levels of interpersonal skills and abilities which will enable you to work as a member of the senior leadership team to lead and manage school improvement, both at strategic and operational levels, to ensure continuous improvement.
You are required to demonstrate a commitment to your own professional learning as a practitioner through career-long professional learning activity and to be able to show how this has impacted on your practice.
Before confirming your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.
You are required to be fully registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) and to model all behaviour expected of a teacher in Scotland in line with the relevant Professional Standards.
The relevant legislation on the management of denominational schools in Scotland states: "A teacher appointed to any post on the staff of any such school by the education authority... shall be required to be approved as regards religious belief and character by representatives of the church or denominational body in whose interest the school has been conducted."
Please go to the SCES website for details