Head of Chemistry

The Billericay School, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9LH

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  28 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Chemistry
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS TLR2b

Head of Chemistry job summary

Principal Responsibilities

• To lead and manage the delivery of Chemistry at KS5 including the practical endorsement.
• To ensure the Chemistry curriculum at KS5 supports all staff to deliver the content.
• To support Coordinators and Head of Faculty to ensure the resources for KS3 and KS4 support all staff to deliver the Chemistry content.
• To ensure that there is appropriate monitoring of teaching and learning of Chemistry
• To raise standards of attainment and achievement in Chemistry
• To be accountable for student progress within Chemistry
• To monitor and support teachers and support staff in ensuring appropriate progress of individual children and teaching groups
• To develop the quality of teaching and learning, in accordance with the school policies
• To support the AAHT – Science and Engineering
• To support school and departmental policies on training and performance management
• To manage delegated financial resources and classroom facilities in the area they manage
• To participate in school planning as members of the school management team when appropriate
• To support school and department procedures for managing the overall progress, behaviour and development of students within the above areas

• To co-ordinate intervention strategies for underachieving students within Chemistry

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 The Billericay School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1697 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Billericay School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-billericay-school

The Billericay School is one of the largest schools in Essex with a roll of almost 1700 students, including 300 in the Sixth Form. The school site enjoys an enviable location; close to the town centre, yet situated in spacious grounds, the school is positioned on an elevated site with distant and sweeping views down towards the River Thames and beyond. In times past, a windmill stood nearby, a piece of local history still commemorated in the school badge.

Teaching takes place in five principal blocks.

The original structure, that dates from the school's foundation some sixty years ago includes an open air, furnished and planted quadrangle for lower school students to use during the summer months.

Other buildings include a modern Technology and Business Studies block, an Art, Food Technology and Textiles building and a Sixth Form Centre that provides a modern, attractive environment for our older students.

Other resources include a large assembly hall with television link, a drama studio, a music suite with recording studio, a media area with video editing suite and a large library/ resource based learning centre, which includes extensive ICT and study facilities as well as housing over 30,000 books.

The school's sporting facilities are exceptional, including a swimming pool, sports hall, gymnasium and fitness suite.

Our grounds include tennis and netball courts and football, rugby and cricket pitches. The school has recently achieved the national Sportsmark Award for its sporting excellence and work with the community.

The school also has a medical room, with the services of qualified staff throughout the school day.

It is also worthy of note that many of our staff have chosen to send their own children to the school. What greater sign of confidence could there be!

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