Head of Biology
Weaverham High School, Northwich, Cheshire, CW8 3HT8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
5 May 2026 at 9am
Date listed
27 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Biology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £51,047.00 Annually (Actual) Salary: Pay scale (Main Pay to Upper Pay Scale) and TLR2A payment £3526.00 per year
Head of Biology job summary
Responsible to: Head of Biology
Performance Management: members of the biology department who are not TLR holders.
Main Purpose of the Role:The Head of Biology is responsible for the strategic leadership, management, and development of Biology within the Science department. The postholder will ensure high standards of teaching and learning, strong pupil outcomes, and a positive profile for Biology across the school.
Key Responsibilities:
To ensure high quality Teaching and Learning within the biology department.
To quality assure formative and summative assessment effectively informs teaching and intervention.
Lead the design, implementation, and review of the Biology curriculum.
To lead and manage the biology department.
To give strategic direction and development of biology within the science department.
To manage the performance of other members of the biology department.
To be accountable for the progress of all pupils within the biology department
To ensure that within your department area, staff and resources are used efficiently and effectively.
Promote scientific enquiry, literacy, numeracy, and practical skills.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Weaverham High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1160 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Weaverham High School website
Our vision is clear, we want Weaverham High School to be a vibrant, thriving and successful school where every member of our community feels valued, safe and supported to ensure they surpass their potential. We celebrate uniqueness and see individuals. We understand that our pupils have hopes and dreams, challenges and barriers and it is our privilege to celebrate their worth and their potential. We want every child to enjoy their own journey of discovery, acquire a thirst for knowledge, creativity and imagination and develop a love for their learning. We want pupils to leave our school not just with qualifications showing their academic success, but also with the capacity to think clearly and deeply, a desire to act with integrity and to show kindness and empathy to others, and with the character and leadership experience they need to thrive in the world. We will work tirelessly to ensure individual barriers are overcome so pupils are challenged and supported in equal measure. Our desire is to nurture talent, ability and ambition with energy, creativity, determination, relentless kindness and high expectations. When we combine such a desire with our ethos of Safe.Ready.Respect you will thrive in our care.
We have a clear and ambitious vision for school improvement that is woven into the 6 strands that define the Weaverham offer. This offer is underpinned by an’ Ethic Of Excellence’ 5, where the following principles guide our strategy to ensure we are the best we can be:
Study examples of excellence
Build a culture of critique (be kind, be specific, be helpful/listen, reflect, review)
Require multiple revisions
Provide opportunities for public presentation
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