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Director of Maths

Manchester Communication Academy, Manchester, M40 8NT

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• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  27 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  24 March 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Subject: Mathematics
• Working pattern: Full time: Monday to Friday Full Time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: L7-11 (£60,145 - £66,368)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Thank you very much for your interest in becoming a Director of Maths at Manchester Communication Academy. If you have demonstrable impact at leading successful teams and you can evidence improving or excellent results at GCSE, we are excited to hear from you.

This is an exciting time to join our excellent and ambitious maths team as we embark on a significant expansion from September 2026. Maths results at MCA are close to national average over a 3 year trend although dipped below at Grade 5 in 2025. Over 60% of children at MCA are eligible for pupil premium funding and it is a measure of the team’s commitment that ‘disadvantaged’ students outperform national disadvantage, achieving an average attainment 8 score of 7.5 (against national disadvantage 6.9). Low, mid and high attainers are close to or above national attainment for 3 years (up to the latest release for 2024).

MCA was recognised by OFSTED in 2024 as a Good school with Outstanding Personal Development and we strive for excellence in everything we do. Implementing an ambitious, text-rich curriculum is a key priority and driving force in our ambition for excellence. We believe in the transformative power of knowledge in ensuring equitable opportunities for success. Our aspirational, bespoke curriculum ensures that all of our students gain the necessary experiences to compete academically, practically, socially and morally in the wider world. In order to achieve this, we invest deliberately in professional development. Drawing upon our EEF Research School, we are able to provide all staff with the most up-to-date and high quality evidence to develop their expertise. During department time, allocated during the academy day, and during weekly subject-specific CPD time, teams explore the ‘best bets’ of evidence-informed practice and work collaboratively to embed this practice within their daily habits. These sessions are engaging, impactful and ambitious, including deliberate practice, instructional coaching and an emphasis on building effective habits.

At MCA, we proactively promote staff wellbeing through our management of workload and additional benefits for staff, such as flexi days and the Employee Assist programme. As a result, our staff are highly skilled and knowledgeable professionals who embrace new opportunities to learn more and keep getting better – a culture that permeates the academy amongst staff and students.

Our students appreciate and relish the opportunity to learn and we support their effective learning behaviours through high expectations with emphasis on metacognition and our work with parents, families and the community. Having the highest expectations of our students means that our teachers can focus on teaching and our students can focus on learning.

We are looking for teachers who are aligned with our values and who have the talent and potential to accelerate the school’s journey to excellence. The position is a great opportunity for someone who shares our passion for delivering educational excellence. If you are aligned to our mission and values and could flourish with this opportunity, we very much look forward to hearing from you.

Successful applicant start date- September 2026 (sooner if possible)

Closing date for application- Friday 27th March 2026

Interviews are scheduled to take place on Tuesday 31st March 2026

What the school offers its staff

Student and Staff well-being is high on our agenda and your professional development and interests are a priority for us. We want our young people to get the best possible deal and that can only be achieved if their teachers are happy, healthy and know that they are valued. Our commitment to you includes but is not exclusive to:

 No marking policy-feedback policy is evidence informed.

 No written reports.

 One Flexi-Day a year, fully paid.

 All quality assurance is collaborative and transparent-we do not apply judgements.

 All funeral requests granted without question.

 We expect you to attend your child’s nativity or open morning.

 No meetings after school.

 No additional cover outside of directed time.

 Teaching staff have 20% protected non-contact time.

 All detentions are centralised and facilitated by pastoral team, not teachers.

 We develop leadership positions and undertake shadow-staffing/succession planning

exercises to see who we need to retain.

 PM is called Performance Development and we focus on how to continue to thrive and excel

in the areas of your role that you already enjoy and demonstrate brilliance.

 All new staff are buddied up with a mentor outside of their faculty area.

 We make a big deal out of events that support your well-being, such as random acts of kindness, Macmillan coffee mornings, cultural diversity celebrations, Thank a Teacher. Staff are recognised and rewarded through our staff recognition scheme

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Job Purpose

Provide professional leadership and management to the mathematics department and mentoring to the Head of Maths in order to secure high quality teaching, the effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and achievement of all students by:-

● Act as the academy strategic lead for student outcomes and staff development in Maths through effective line management of the Maths leadership team

● Ensuring that all young people make at least expected progress and that ambitious targets for student performance are met in all Key Stages.

● Continuing to develop an innovative and progressive curriculum in Maths lessons, alongside the Maths leadership team, which is supported by a vibrant programme of extracurricular and enrichment activities, with a clear focus on excellence in the new Transition centre

● Oversee the performance management of all leaders, teachers and support staff in the Maths Department so that ambitious targets are met and there is a clear link between pay and progression

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.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Director of Maths 2026.docx (1).pdf - 303 KB (opens in new tab)

About Manchester Communication Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1299 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Manchester Communication Academy website
• Email address: n.carey@gmatrust.co.uk
• Phone number: 01612020161
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/manchester-communication-academy

Manchester Communication Academy serves the community of Harpurhey and its surrounding districts. We are an 11-16 secondary school with a primary school also on site. Close collaboration between the two schools is fundamental to our way of working.

Not only is the Academy committed to offering our students the highest quality learning experience but the Social Investment Department is dedicated to offering opportunities and support to our local families and wider community. Together, our driving force is to mitigate the impact of disadvantage and ensuring that the young people that we serve are equipped and ready to be successful and happy adults who we are proud to know.

Everyone at MCA shares these same values and this is important to us.

Arranging a visit to Manchester Communication Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email n.carey@gmatrust.co.uk.

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