Head of Business

Devizes School, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 3AG

27 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  April 2025

• Closing date

  1 December 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  15 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Business Studies and Economics
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,000.00 - £46,525.00 Annually (FTE) Additional TLR2C

Head of Business job summary

Please note that applications will be reviewed as received and should a suitable candidate be identified, we may close the vacancy early. Therefore, early application is encouraged.

This role is for full time 32.50 hrs per week, all year round contract on permanent basis.

The post is to start in April or sooner if possible.

Vacancy Details

Devizes School is a well-established Secondary School in the heart of Wiltshire. We value diversity in our school community and hold a variety of lessons and events to celebrate our differences.

We couldn’t do what we do without our fantastic staff team, and we have an exciting opportunity for an outstanding teacher with the experience to step up into a Head of Business position in our school to lead the Business Studies department.

The Business Studies Department at Devizes School offers a comprehensive curriculum aimed at developing student's understanding of the business world. Through subjects like Business Studies and Economics we help students gain skills in entrepreneurship, finance, marketing and management to prepare them for further education and career. The role will also include line managing computing and IT.

As a Head of Business you will help lead the design, implementation and evaluation of Business Studies curriculum, ensuring it aligns with national standards. Manage and mentor teaching staff by ensuring high standards of teaching and learning, to ensure that every student meet their potential.

If you are a qualified and enthusiastic teacher with looking for the next step in your teaching career, within a challenging but highly rewarding role, then we want to hear from you.

Come and join us in a key role on this exciting journey to help every student in our school reach their potential.

All About You

Do you have what it takes to join us? The Head of Subject we would like to join us will be:

A dynamic, inspirational and enthusiastic classroom practitioner with high expectations for students.

Passionate about your subject, able to inspire and motivate students and staff.

A role model for our students and staff.

Why Work for us?

We think you will love working with us and here are some of the reasons why:

We are a welcoming and supportive school with strong values and a caring ethos.

Our staff are a hardworking team dedicated to helping children succeed.

Our children are engaged and eager to learn.

We have a supportive leadership team and wider school community.

As part of The White Horse Federation multi-academy trust, we benefit from their support, encouragement, shared resources and outstanding CPD opportunities.

Why not come and see for yourself? We would love to welcome you to our school and show you around so that you can better understand our school environment. Please get in touch with the school office to arrange.

The White Horse Federation is a large Multi-Academy Trust in South West and South East England, committed to providing the very best education for our students. We believe in empowering our staff to be the very best they can be, and that is why you will find a wide range of professional development opportunities available to you when you join us.

Benefits:

We believe in valuing our staff, and one of the ways we can do that is by offering a range of benefits to our staff:

Car Purchase Scheme

Discounted Gym Membership

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Excellent Pension Scheme

Ready to Apply?

We hope we have done enough to give you a flavour of what it is like to work here. If you would like come and join us, then please apply today – we are looking forward to hearing from you.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Devizes School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1137 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Devizes School website (opens in new tab)
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Devizes School is a Good School (Ofsted 2019) and learning is at the heart of all that we do. We are a very forward thinking school who are always striving to do better. It is a very happy place to learn and work and the positive relationships between students and staff are based on mutual respect and are at the heart of high standards of teaching and learning. This results in all students making excellent progress

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