Director of Learning: Science
Sandringham School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 9NX19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
24 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
3 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS plus fringe, with TLR 1b
Director of Learning: Science job summary
Full Time
MPS/UPS plus fringe, with TLR 1b
Start date: September 2025
We are looking to appoint a talented, enthusiastic and ambitious Director of Learning for Science to join our highly successful Science Faculty. Our Science results at GCSE and A level are outstanding, with 92% achieving grade 9-4 at GCSE combined science and 100% achieving 9-4 in Triple Science qualifications. A very high proportion of students take triple science. Our huge sixth form offers plenty of opportunities to teach at KS5, with three classes each year in every science A level. The department benefits from highly specialist facilities, including 6 new laboratories in addition to 8 original labs and a large and highly skilled technician team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to join a high performing school and gain significant experience to further enhance their career, like the current Director of Learning for Science:
“Having completed my PhD in microbiology, I had a successful career in scientific research including posts. I joined Sandringham through the Alban Federation Initial Teacher Training programme, gaining QTS in 2018. I was appointed as Director of Learning for Science in 2021. One of the best things about my job is being part of a team of committed science teachers and technicians; I really enjoy my role leading a large team. Teaching students about how great science is is a real privilege and I am able to share my passion for my subject every day. Something I have really valued in my time at Sandringham is being supported to undertake a leadership programme; this was really beneficial in supporting my development.” – Lucinda, Director of Learning for Science.
If this is something you are looking for in your career, please don't hesitate and we would love to hear from you!
The successful candidate will:
- have a track record of outstanding teaching and learning
- have excellent subject knowledge
- be inspiring, dynamic and passionate
- promote Sandringham’s ethos and values
Sandringham School is part of the Ambition Education Trust (AET), formerly named as the Alban Academies Trust before merging with the ATLAS Multi-Academy Trust. The school leads the Alban Teaching School Hub and is also a designated Computing Hub. In joining Sandringham School, you will also be joining the AET. The Trust is a close community of ten schools within Hertfordshire, five of which are Secondary schools and five are Primary schools. As part of the AET we are able to maximise the opportunities for personal, professional and career development. To learn more about the Trust please visit https://www.ambitioneducationtrust.org/home
Application deadline: 9am on Monday, 24th February 2025
Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.
Ambition Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to a post at AET is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.
We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Sandringham School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1767 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Sandringham School website (opens in new tab)
Sandringham is a co-educational academy school, based in St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Sandringham is a non-selective school with over 1600 students, including nearly 450 in the thriving sixth form. Our aim is simple – to be 'World Class' where our students receive the best education possible in a state school.
We believe that every child can succeed in life if challenged and inspired appropriately. A strong academic curriculum supported by outstanding extra-curricular provision helps Sandringham students develop as individuals with the necessary skills to be successful in adult life. Our ethos is summed up by our motto: 'Everybody can be somebody'
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