Head of Business Studies
Christopher Whitehead Language College, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR2 4AFThis job expired on 2 April 2025
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
2 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
18 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Business studies
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 31,650 - 49,084
Additional allowances
TLR 2.1
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
• Be passionate about delivering an outstanding and ambitious curriculum for all students.
• Be an excellent teacher in your chosen field.
• Be able to motivate and inspire students and staff to a achieve the very best outcomes.
• Be an effective leader and team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Have a proven track record of improving outcomes.
• Understand the barriers to achievement and how to overcome them.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic and inspiring applicant to lead the Business Studies department, in our fabulous, vibrant, growing 11-18 secondary school of 1,600 students that received ‘outstanding’ from Ofsted for personal development, behaviour and welfare in their last four inspections.
The governors, staff, students and parents are committed to serving our community in our inclusive, friendly school. If you feel you could contribute to this vision, we would be pleased to receive your application.
Further details about the role
The Business Studies Department
Studying Business develops key attributes sought by employers such as critical thinking, analytical skills, problem solving, and the ability to research and interpret business data.
Students with this knowledge and skill set can be highly employable in areas such as advertising, banking, finance, personnel management and logistics, in both public and private sectors – indeed it is difficult to name a career where knowledge of business practices would not be of use.
Our ethos as a department is to engage our students in their studies through a constant referral to, and use of, current business-related news stories and developments, in order to bring real life and subject content together. Our students sit examinations delivered by Pearson Edexcel at both GCSE and A-level; they have achieved excellent results, and many have been inspired to pursue their interest in Business at degree level. The Pearson Edexcel GCSE 9-1 course requires students to explore key business concepts, issues and skills involved in starting and running a small business such as enterprise and entrepreneurship, spotting a business opportunity, putting a business idea into practice, making the business effective, and understanding external influences on business. The course then considers how a business develops beyond the start-up phase by exploring growing the business, making marketing decisions, operational decisions, financial decisions, and human resource decisions. All topic areas require students to consider the national and global business environment and its impact on business behaviour and decisions. The Pearson Edexcel A-level involves the study of business leadership and management, marketing, accounting and finance, operations management, decision making techniques, human resources, business strategy, the external environment, economic changes and influences, and globalisation. The course covers all types of businesses from the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors, and considers the implications of operating on local, national and international scales. In addition to studying business theories and concepts our students are encouraged to participate in entrepreneurial activities such as the Young Enterprise Tenner Challenge, the Student Investor Challenge, and of course we encourage our very own budding entrepreneurs who run their own businesses outside of school
Commitment to safeguarding
Committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. All staff, volunteers must share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment are subject to these checks
• childcare disqualification
• 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 convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. We will protect your personal data and we take this responsibility very seriously.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Christopher Whitehead Language College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1526 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Christopher Whitehead Language College website
- Email address
- recruitment@cwlc.email
- Phone number
- 01905423906
Christopher Whitehead Language College, 11-18 school with 1,600 students, this very good school, described by Ofsted as:
‘An inclusive, tolerant and welcoming school. Leaders have high expectations.
They place a strong focus on academic achievement and pupils’ character development.’ We have built the lovely inclusive culture where all
children matter and where the school prides itself on making a difference – going the ‘extra mile’.
Arranging a visit to Christopher Whitehead Language College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@cwlc.email.
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