Subject Leader for Geography

Job overview

Nishkam Schools are Sikh schools with a multi faith ethos, taking a distinctive approach to faith based education. As a high performing multi academy trust serving communities across five cities, our work is grounded in a virtues led model shaped by compassion, humility, service, contentment, optimism, trust and forgiveness. These virtues are lived daily through our teaching, leadership and relationships.

We support pupils to explore the divine context of humanity and learn from the wisdom of different faith traditions, encouraging them to recognise their capacity to do good unconditionally. We are equally committed to supporting both pupils and staff in developing their own religious, spiritual or human identity, approaching this work with humility, reflection and a spirit of service

Job Purpose

In addition to the professional duties of a Teacher, the Subject Leader will support the implementation and quality assurance of the curriculum. You will act as a subject specialist, modelling excellence in the classroom and providing specialist expertise to colleagues. Your focus is on the consistent delivery of high standards and the tactical improvement of pupil outcomes within your specific teaching groups

Main Duties Curriculum Development & Ownership

• Coordinate the implementation and sequencing of the curriculum within the subject area, ensuring a spiral of knowledge that supports pupil progress.
• Adapt and refine existing Schemes of Work and assessment frameworks to ensure they remain high-quality, compliant with specifications, and intellectually challenging
• Maintain a high-quality bank of subject-specific resources that align with the 'Framework for Great Teaching' Organise subject-specific moderation exercises to ensure internal assessment data is a reliable reflection of pupil performance.
• Conduct regular work scrutinies and provide feedback to SLT regarding the impact of the curriculum within your subject area,
• Support the administration of exam board requirements, ensuring accuracy and compliance in line with school processes
• Support the integration of school-wide literacy and numeracy strategies through expert delivery within your own subject area
• Contribute to the Departmental Improvement Plan by providing specialist feedback and leading small-scale, classroom-based projects.

Pupil Outcomes

• Monitor the progress and attainment of pupils within your specific subject cohorts, identifying trends and reporting findings to SLT
• Implement agreed subject-specific intervention strategies, tracking their impact on pupil outcomes within your teaching groups
• Collate evidence of curriculum impact (work samples and progress data) to support departmental reviews or external inspections
• Coordinate subject-specific clubs or "beyond the classroom" opportunities to enhance student engagement and cultural capital.

Staff Management

• Act as a lead practitioner, providing a model of excellence in subject-specific pedagogy for colleagues, ECTs, or non-specialists to observe.
• Offer specialist expertise and professional dialogue to colleagues to help them develop their own subject knowledge and classroom delivery.
• Provide high-quality, pre-sequenced materials for colleagues to use during staff absence to ensure continuity of learning.
• Share subject-specific induction materials with new staff or trainees to help them understand the subject's resources and intent.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead subject-specific events (e.g., exhibitions, performances, or competitions) to raise the profile and to promote the subject within the school.
• Support the options process by providing specialist advice to pupils and parents regarding the value and requirements of the subject.

Responsibilities Safeguarding

• The jobholder must observe their obligations in accordance with the Trust's Child Protection Procedure and the document 'Keeping Children Safe in Education: Information for all school and college staff', and to report any concerns that they may have regarding a child or young person's welfare to the appropriate person.

Compliance

• Comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person

Equal Opportunities

• Be aware and support difference and ensure equal opportunities for all

Conduct

• To have professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school in which you teach, and maintain high standards in your own attendance and punctuality
• Perform any reasonable duties as requested by the headteacher

Training and Development

• Regularly review the effectiveness of your teaching and assessment procedures and its impact on pupils' progress, attainment and well being, refining your approaches where necessary responding to advice and feedback from colleagues
• Be responsible for improving your teaching through participating fully in training and development opportunities identified by the school or as developed as an outcome of your appraisal
• Proactively participate with arrangements made in accordance with the Appraisal Regulations

Additional Information Mobility

• The jobholder may be required to transfer to any job appropriate to their grade at such a place as in the service of the Trust may be required, in accordance with legitimate operational requirements and/or facilitating the avoidance of staffing reductions

Other

• The job description reflects the major tasks to be carried out by the job holder and identifies the level of responsibility at which the jobholder will be required to work, as at the date on which the last review took place
• The job description may be subject to review and/or amendment at any time to reflect the requirements of the job. Any amendments will be made in consultation with any existing jobholder, and will be commensurate with the salary grade for the job
• The job holder is expected to comply with any reasonable management requests for any other duties commensurate with the grade of the post