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Permanent Post.
Location: Lanark Grammar School.
Hours: 35 hours per week.
Salary: Principal Teacher Scale 6, £69, per year.
We are seeking a Faculty Head to join our extended leadership team. With significant curricular change on the horizon, we need a dynamic leader to navigate and guide our skilled English faculty into the future.
As our Principal Teacher of English, you will manage the day-to-day operations of the English faculty along with the ongoing development and delivery of existing and new courses across the BGE and Senior Phase.
In this middle leader capacity, you will also be the strategic heartbeat of literacy across the whole-school curriculum. You will work to ignite a love of reading across the school to support attainment and achievement, develop a vision to raise literacy levels which directly impact on attainment school-wide, and find creative ways to capture achievement and skill development for all our pupils.
You will work closely with our wider extended leadership team to align your faculty with whole-school priorities. You’ll engage with Support for Learning and ASN colleagues to ensure an inclusive and accessible curriculum for all. Most importantly you’ll lead a team of English teachers to be inspired, challenged and supported by your expertise.
You will have autonomy to innovate, receive support to grow as a professional and have the platform to make a lasting impact on the lives of pupils and staff at Lanark Grammar.
Subject to the policies and practice of the School and the Council, the duties of principal teachers are, in addition to any duties of a teacher that may apply, to:
(a) lead, manage and support the work of colleagues providing strategic direction and guidance as necessary;
(b) lead curriculum development and quality assurance;
(c) contribute to the development of school policy in relation to the behaviour management of pupils;
(d) review and support professional needs, and performance of colleagues through career-long professional learning;
e) where required, lead, implement and manage whole school policies including, where appropriate, guidance, pastoral care and behaviour support.
Principal Teachers must be given a reduction in weekly class contact to enable them to carry out those duties which are in addition to their duties as classroom teacher. Its extent may vary according to the nature and scope of those duties. The additional duties of principal teachers must be capable of being undertaken within the 35-hour working week and, where a principal teacher retains a classroom teacher role, within the arrangements agreed at establishment level through the working time agreement.
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