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Head of Chemistry
Mossbourne Community Academy, London, E5 8JY19 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
31 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 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
- Chemistry
Working pattern
- Full time: 40 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Teachers main pay scale + Mossbourne main pay scale allowance £1600 + TLR / UPS + TLR
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking an outstanding practitioner to lead our high performing chemistry team.
The successful applicant will be responsible for overseeing the chemistry curriculum and teaching and learning of chemistry from Years 7 to 13. They will ensure our A-level chemistry students achieve their aims of studying chemistry, chemical engineering or natural sciences at Oxford, Cambridge and other top universities.
This role requires excellent subject knowledge and a passion for chemistry education. They will be highly organised and willing to go the ‘extra mile’.
They will be an aspiring middle leader and ready to lead where required. They will embody the high standards that we expect from all of our staff and will be instrumental in ensuring that outstanding teaching and learning is maintained in chemistry.
What the school offers its staff
Federation staff are rewarded through access to a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to:
Benenden health membership, to support health and wellbeing, fully paid by the Federation
Discounted gym membership with the ability to spread membership costs
Free staff fitness classes
Cycle to work and season ticket loan schemes
Free lunches (T&Cs apply)
Discounts at local restaurants
Saturday pay programme
Special leave scheme
First rate professional development and career opportunities
Staff appreciation awards and events
The Mossbourne Allowance (Ts & Cs apply)
If you are passionate about innovative education, have a commitment to personal excellence and are ready for a new challenge, we welcome your application.
Commitment to safeguarding
Mossbourne Federation reserves the right to modify job descriptions to ensure the needs of the Federation & students are met. Mossbourne Federation provides equal employment opportunities to all employment applicants and employees without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or status. The document is not a comprehensive list; it simply outlines expectations of the role. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. The post holder must be committed to safeguarding the welfare of children.
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 Mossbourne Community Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1432 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Mossbourne Community Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@mossbourne.org
The Mossbourne Federation’s flagship academy, Mossbourne Community Academy (MCA) is built on high expectations and doing right by the pupils in our care. We are driven to ensure that MCA pupils have future choice and opportunities, succeed in their chosen career pathway and make positive contributions to society. MCA has not only changed the face of education in Hackney, but has also raised the bar in educational expectations to the highest level; we achieve recognition, nationally, and annually, for setting a new benchmark for non-selective comprehensive education. All pupils, regardless of race, gender, background or ability, are encouraged to achieve their true potential and the behaviour of our pupils is exemplary. With outstanding GCSE and A-level results, year on year, Mossbourne Community Academy is placed within the top 1% of schools in the country. We are tremendously proud that our most recent Ofsted Inspection, dated November 2021, judged the academy as ‘outstanding’ and starts with the sentence ‘Mossbourne Community Academy changes pupil’s lives for the better’, because that is what we do, year on year. In 2023, Mossbourne Community Academy was named the top comprehensive school in London in The Sunday Times ‘Good Schools Guide’, the 5th most oversubscribed school in England and the most oversubscribed school in London. Such recognition is testament to the pride, hard work and dedication of our staff body, pupils and parents.
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