Faculty Leader of Social Sciences & Curriculum for Life
The Westleigh School, Leigh, Lancashire, WN7 5NL6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
4 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours - Full time - All year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650 – £49,084 FTE salary per annum
Pay scale
- M1 - UPS3
Additional allowances
TLR1a - £9,782
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you a passionate and experienced educator ready to lead and shape a dynamic faculty? Do you have the vision and leadership skills to drive excellence in Social Science and Curriculum for Life subjects? If so, we would love to hear from you!
We are seeking an inspirational Faculty Leader to lead our Social Science and Curriculum for Life (C4L) faculty. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact by shaping the curriculum and ensuring high-quality teaching and learning across Religious Education, Health & Social Care, Child Development, RSE, PSHE, and CEIAG. There is also potential for future expansion into Citizenship.
As Faculty Leader, you will play a key role in developing and embedding our Curriculum for Life programme, ensuring that students receive essential knowledge and skills to prepare them for life beyond school.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership for the Social Science & C4L Faculty
- Ensure high-quality teaching and learning across all faculty subjects
- Lead the implementation of key initiatives, including LORIC (PIXL Edge) and the Westleigh Pledge
- Develop and embed a curriculum that equips students with essential life and employability skills
- Support staff in delivering engaging and inclusive lessons that prepare students for further education, employment, and training
The Ideal Candidate Will:
- Be an experienced and ambitious educator with a passion for Social Science and Curriculum for Life subjects
- Have a strong track record of leadership and curriculum development
- Be committed to student personal development and future success
- Possess excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to inspire both staff and students
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a forward-thinking faculty and make a lasting impact on students' education and future careers. If you are passionate about shaping well-rounded, confident, and employable young people, we encourage you to apply!
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL,
NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
Flexible working opportunities
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.
Further details about the role
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.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Westleigh School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 970 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Westleigh School website
- Email address
- jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk
The Westleigh School is a secondary school providing education to pupils aged 11 to 16, as well as providing an adult education centre to members of the local community.
The school motto of “Aspiring and Achieving Together” accurately captures the shared vision which ensures that leaders at all levels are developing their ability to communicate high expectations.
At The Westleigh School, an unrelenting focus is placed on the quality of teaching above all else so that the pupils are able to grow in a continuously developing learning environment.
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