Director of Learning - Science

Leigh Academy Blackheath, London, SE3 8SY

6 days remaining to apply

Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 March 2025

Job details

Job role: Head of department or curriculum
Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science
Working pattern: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: Leadership scale commensurate with experience

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a Director of Learning - Science. This allows an exceptional practitioner to move into a leadership role and receive fantastic support and CPD opportunities across the academy and wider Trust.

It is a fantastic time to be joining the team. You would join a hardworking and passionate team of staff, in an academy characterised by high aspirations, academic excellence and exemplary behaviour. Success is achieved through teamwork and subject teams work closely together to share resources and ideas to achieve the best outcomes for our students. We believe that learning never stops.

Our parents are supportive and ambitious for their children, and our reputation in the locale is established. The academy is a popular, oversubscribed, school. We are a friendly, caring and ambitious community. The academic progress and welfare of our students is at the heart of everything we do. Our students develop into responsible, well-educated young adults who are ready to take their next steps in life and navigate an ever changing world.

What the school offers its staff

Leigh Academy Blackheath (LAB) is a co-educational 11-19 Outstanding comprehensive school, located in Blackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich. LAB is also an International Baccalaureate World School, delivering the highly regarded Middle Years Programme at KS3, and will open its new P16 provision - LAB16, in September 2023.

‘Pupils behave exceptionally well. Classrooms are calm places where pupils can focus on their learning’- OFSTED December 2022

We believe that every learner is entitled to an enriching, varied and personalised education; delivered through a broad and balanced curriculum that provides challenge, irrespective of need, starting point or background. If you are as passionate about achieving this as we are, and have the drive and determination to ensure all students realise their full potential, we invite you to join our team.

‘Staff are proud to work at this school where everyone’s contribution is valued’- OFSTED December 2022.

Further details about the role

Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date. Applicants will be notified of this where possible. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.

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.