Head of Computer Science

Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ

38 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  7 May 2026 at 1pm

• Date listed

  30 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE) TLR2B £5945

Head of Computer Science job summary

Southend High School for Girls

Head of Computer Science

TLR2B

Required for September 2026

Closing date: Thursday 7th May 2026

Interviews date tbc

We are seeking an inspirational teacher of Computer Science to lead this popular subject in our outstanding school.

The Computer Science department offers a vibrant and ambitious curriculum across all key stages. All students study Computer Science at Key Stage 3, and the subject is taught at both GCSE and A Level. Students are highly motivated, intellectually curious, and consistently achieve excellent outcomes; in 2025, 80% of GCSE students achieved grades 7-9.

We are seeking an exceptional practitioner to lead this successful and forward‑thinking department. The successful candidate will teach Computer Science across Key Stages 3, 4, and 5, and will provide strategic and inspirational leadership to a small team of dedicated teachers, ensuring high‑quality provision throughout the school.

The ability to teach Computer Science confidently at GCSE and A Level is essential, alongside the vision and enthusiasm to drive continued excellence in the department.

The successful candidate should:

• Be an inspirational classroom practitioner with an irresistible enthusiasm for their subject. As a reflective practitioner you will be constantly looking to develop your practice through collaboration, experimentation, and hard work.
• Lead and manage the department, ensuring high standards of teaching and learning, develop excellent departmental resources and plan and deliver an ambitious grammar school curriculum.
• Be creative and innovative, constantly looking for new ways to challenge our high ability students across all Key Stages.
• Secure the highest standards of pupil achievement, monitoring, tracking, supporting, and evaluating pupil achievement. Setting targets for improvement and implementing effective strategies for underperforming students.

Develop super-curricular opportunities for all students across the school to develop their interest in Computer Science and to ensure the subject is high-profile.

We can offer you:

• A strong, highly qualified staff team and an ethos of tolerance and respect with a family community spirit.
• A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff
• An environment which promotes innovation.
• Highly motivated, curious, and industrious students

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls’ grammar school rated

‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. This is an exciting time to join the school as it moves forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey.

For all enquiries, please contact Sinead Carter, HR Manager by e-mail at recruitment@shsg.org

We reserve the right to call applicants to interview, and appoint, prior to the closing date

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. This is a customer facing role needing fluent spoken English.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.

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.

About Southend High School for Girls

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1253 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Southend High School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southend-high-school-for-girls

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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