About this role
Head of Sixth Form
Based in West London, just 30 minutes from Clapham Junction, The Rivers West London Campus incorporates Rivers Academy West London and the STEM based Space Studio West London. Rivers Academy is an Ofsted graded ‘Outstanding’ and Space Studio West London Ofsted graded ‘Good’ Academy committed to supporting outstanding outcomes for our students.
We work hard to foster high levels of self-worth within an Academy community that has the very highest expectations across uniform, behaviour, attendance, and punctuality. We want to empower future generations to follow their dreams. Rivers and Space Studio are great places to work too, with a strong focus on career development. Many of the staff that trained with us are now in Leadership positions and being on that development journey with our staff is important to us.
At Rivers Campus we ask our students to take risks, be creative and make mistakes. As educators we are encouraged to think big, improvise and fail forward, through leveraging student interests, incorporating real world problems and using professional tools/expertise to design engaging into disciplinary projects that drive students' curiosity for learning.
An exciting opportunity has become available for a passionate Head of Sixth Form to join us at Rivers Campus. You would be joining a team who enjoy developing a real love for learning in students.
We seek to appoint a highly motivated, enthusiastic teacher with a strong commitment to securing the best possible outcomes for the students for whom we work and who will take a lead on the Sixth Form across the Rivers Campus. The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom practitioner and capable of leading others to secure outstanding progress for every child and to continually improve provision across the Rivers Campus. Ideally the candidate will be a teacher of English. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious individual seeking to make an impact and gain further whole sch