Faculty Director of Mathematics
Great Wyrley Academy, Walsall, West Midlands, WS6 6LQ20 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
25 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
5 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week, 195 days per year.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS with TLR 1C
Additional allowances
TLR 1C at £14,891 pa
What skills and experience we're looking for
Evidence of leading a team and of impact in current role
Expert in using data to improve outcomes
Consistently effective classroom practitioner
Able to accept autonomy, operate professionally and hold others to account
Experience of coaching, mentoring and leading training
Evidence of leading successful change for improvement
Enthusiastic in leading students and staff
Commitment to success for all students
Good motivational and leadership qualities
Evidence of, and willing to, contribute to extra-curricular activities including leading international visits
Able to set targets, meet deadlines and to work under pressure
Maintains high professional standards
What the school offers its staff
Great Wyrley Academy is part of a growing Multi Academy Trust which affords our staff many cross phase opportunities. We are highly ambitious for our students, staff and community and aspire to be exceptional in everything we do. Professional development opportunities are outstanding and we keep staff wellbeing central to everything we do.
We are committed to delivering the very best education for all students. This is demonstrated through the school’s motto of “Relentlessly Pursuing Excellence”. We offer a very friendly and inclusive working environment where children and the community are at the heart of all we do.
The school offers the following:-
- Excellent Professional Learning Programme and opportunities
- Pension Scheme
- Free Annual Flu Jab
- Salary Sacrifice Cycle scheme
- Free Eye Tests
- Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Scheme
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Great Wyrley Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check with barred list check. Evidence of the right to work in the UK.
Applying for the job
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About Great Wyrley Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 573 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Great Wyrley Academy website
- Email address
- mnewman@greatwyrley.windsoracademytrust.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01922 419311
Great Wyrley Academy is a secondary school and sixth form for students aged 11-18 in Great Wyrley, Staffordshire. The Academy is committed to delivering the very best education and fulfilling the academic personal potential of all and students.
Great Wyrley Academy is renowned for its performing arts specialism, with one of the best indoor theatres in the area. It also has excellent sports facilities including its own swimming pool, gymnasium, fitness suite, outdoor football pitches and newly built multi use games area.
Great Wyrley Academy is committed to delivering the very best education for all students. This is demonstrated through the school’s motto of “Relentlessly Pursuing Excellence” and in our recent ‘Good’ Ofsted judgement.
The Academy’s beliefs and values are practised through the ‘Wyrley Way’. This is a set of values and behaviours that are built upon respect and responsibility that are lived throughout the school.
Great Wyrley strives for students to have a love of learning, be successful learners and gain the knowledge, skills and attributes to be successful in the world of work. Equally, the Academy endeavours for our students to be good human beings, with a sense of purpose and character enabling them to flourish in life.
Arranging a visit to Great Wyrley Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email mnewman@greatwyrley.windsoracademytrust.org.uk.
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