Computer Science Lead Practitioner

**Ada, the National College for Digital Skills**
Victoria

£41,000 - £48,000 per year

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**Salary**:

Teachers Pension Scheme

**Job type**:

Full Time, Permanent
20 September 2024

**Job overview**:
**Welcome to Ada**

We are the National College for Digital Skills, established in 2016 as the first new Further Education College in England since 1993. Our mission is to educate and empower the next generation of diverse digital talent, and our values of Rigour, Resilience, Creativity, Curiosity and Collaboration sit at the heart of what we do and how we go about our work. We seek to harness tech as a positive tool for social mobility and improve the gender and ethnic diversity of the tech workforce.

We are a small, specialist college with sixth form students and apprentices on roll at present but with plans now well underway to grow to more learners by December 2025 across our two fantastic new city centre hub campuses in London (Pimlico) and Manchester (Ancoats).

We stand apart from other Colleges due to:

- Our fantastic progression outcomes for our learners
- The breadth and depth of our industry partnerships
- Our focus on outreach and learner diversity, especially those from more disadvantaged backgrounds
- Our high support, high expectations culture for staff and learners

We received ‘Good’, with Outstanding features, in our first Ofsted inspection in October 2018 and again in March 2023.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and inspiring outstanding teacher of Computer Science (Computing), ready to lead and further develop a strong and talented team of sixth form computer science teachers at Ada.

You will share the mission of the College which is to educate and empower the next generation of diverse digital talent and as such you will work with our industry partners to help deliver an education that enables all our students, especially women and those from low-income backgrounds, to progress into highly skilled digital roles and lead flourishing lives.

You will lead the department’s teachers in an experienced computer science team to develop and deliver Ada’s computer science curriculum in an innovative and engaging way that embodies the beliefs and values of the College; to put real world industry involvement at the heart of our curriculum, and to ensure our students continue to achieve outstanding outcomes and progression.

You will teach on the BTEC Nationals (RQF) Level 3 Computing programme leading units suited to your individual expertise and will help teach, develop and shape our new curriculum as we incorporate the T-Level Digital Production, Design and Development course alongside our core BTEC Level 3 Computing courses in the coming year.

At Ada, you will work in a fast-paced environment with an aspirational group of teachers and students who are highly passionate about computing and digital skills. Our ambition is to continue to grow our student volumes as our reputation grows while maintaining the high quality and unique nature of our cohort.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities are detailed in the attached JD**

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**Essential Qualifications and Experience**
- Qualified teacher status (QTS) / PGCE / Lecturer qualification (QTLS)
- Delivery of Computer Science/ Computing at Level 3 with an excellent track record of results
- Pastoral experience with KS4 or post 16 students.

**Desirable Qualifications and Experience**
- Knowledge of industry, ideally the tech sector, and ideas of how to invigorate the curriculum by harnessing industry’s challenges and ways of working
- Experience in leading aspects of BTEC provision
- Experience of leading teams within an educational context and evidence of a positive and sustained impact
- Leadership and implementation of effective intervention programmes at a department/year/school or college wide level that had a proven impact on results
- Leadership of a range of school/college wide initiatives with evidence of impact
- Experience of coaching and developing teachers and/or support staff to help them improve their practise.

**Leadership and Management - the ability to demonstrate**:

- Genuine passion and belief in the potential of every student
- An educational vision aligned with the college’s high aspirations.
- Clear strategies for establishing consistently high standards of results and behaviour and a commitment to relentlessly instilling these.
- An effective leadership style that inspires confidence in those you lead and encourages others to participate in going above and beyond.
- Versatility to adapt your leadership style in circumstances where an alternative approach is needed.
- A desire to innovate and try new approaches, being reflective and learning from mistakes.
- An ability to give feedback in a constructive and challenging way.
- An ambassadorial approach in all dealings with the community and subsequently to be positive in successfully marketing the college in the co