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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    6 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    28 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Head of department or curriculum
  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subjects

English, Languages

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Between £59,100 and £67,000

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate must demonstrate:

  • Vision, energy and inter-personal skills required to inspire, motivate and lead others.
  • Ability and tenacity to translate vision into operational reality through ambitious plans for continuous improvement.
  • Exemplary classroom teaching and a firm commitment to high expectations and academic achievement.
  • Personal attributes that engender respect and trust from all stakeholders within the wider community and beyond.

What the school offers its staff

Hewens College is a place of high expectations, where students and staff alike are encouraged to achieve their personal best. As an inclusive school, Hewens College promotes tolerance and respect.

It places great importance on students, staff, parents, guardians and carers, working together to make sure children will receive the best educational experience possible.

Further details about the role

EXCEPTIONAL TEACHER WITH LEADERSHIP QUALITIES

English and European, Community and Asset Languages

Are you an enthusiastic and forward thinking practitioner who is passionate about your subject? Do you have the ability to vigorously promote, organise and deliver high quality lessons? Do you have the leadership, management and organisational skills necessary to be part of a senior leadership team which delivers notable outcomes?

If the answer to the above is “Yes”, then we would like to hear from you.


The successful candidate can expect to:

  • Play a pivotal role in the leadership of the College in the next phase of development.
  • Drive forward an innovative agenda that seeks to improve the life chances of students living locally.
  • Work within an inclusive ethos where students are encouraged to be positive, responsive and develop a genuine desire to succeed.
  • Experience a wide range of leadership responsibilities that are aimed at providing professional development in preparation for future promotion.



Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Please complete the online application.

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Additional documents

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About Hewens College

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
Secondary
School size
482 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
Ofsted report
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Email address
slalli@trhat.org
Phone number
02085732097

Arranging a visit to Hewens College

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email slalli@trhat.org.

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