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Head of Faculty - Business, IT, Languages & Law (BILL)
Wirral Grammar School for Boys, Wirral, Merseyside, CH63 3AQ14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
26 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
4 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of department or curriculum
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- Business studies, Economics
Working pattern
- Full time: The School Teachers Pay & Conditions Document does not set specific working weeks for those on the Leadership Scale. You will be required to be available for duty at reasonable times to undertake the professional duties assigned.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L7 - L11
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an excellent opportunity for a forward-thinking Teacher of Business & Economics who is passionate about their subject and is ready to sit on the School's Leadership team and utilise their strong leadership skills and vision for growth to lead the Business, IT, Languages & Law Faculty, whilst inspiring our students and staff.
Context
In September 2024 the school undertook a restructure of staffing, creating a Faculty system. Heads of Faculty form part of the Leadership Team which makes all the school's strategic decisions. The BILL Faculty consists of the Business, IT, Languages & Law Departments and is one of eight faculties at Wirral Grammar Boys. All Heads of Faculty make up the broader Leadership Team at WGSB and meet weekly on a Wednesday at 8am.
As Head of BILL Faculty, you will also be Head of the Business and Economics Department and will teach Business to KS4 & 5 and Economics to KS5. It is therefore essential you have the ability to teach KS5 Economics.
Please see 'Applicant Information' for a detailed job description.
What the school offers its staff
WGSB is an oversubscribed grammar school of around 1100 students aged 11 to 18, including sixth form of over 260. We are one of 163 selective grammar schools in England and are a stand-alone academy. Increasingly we are seeing external applicants join the sixth form which is further energising our student body.
We are very much a community-centred and inclusive school. The socio-economic mix of our school is not typical of other grammar schools and as such we believe that academically minded and talented students, regardless of their background or needs, should have equal opportunities to benefit from a grammar school education.
Our school moto is ‘Sapientia Ianua Vitae’ or ‘Wisdom is the Gateway to Life’. We want our students to discover more through their learning, thrive in our positive environment and develop a true sense of belonging.
Our Values
- A culture of care and compassion that has at its centre the wellbeing of all within the community.
- A school that offers a breadth and variety of opportunities and experiences to all students.
- An environment where all students aspire to meet or better their personal best every day.
- A population of unity where commonalities are celebrated, and difference is valued and nurtured.
At WGSB our combination of core values, educational excellence and caring, committed staff provides an enriching environment in which to learn. We have offered a distinct education on the Cross Lane site since 1931 and continue to do so.
A good school gets the fundamentals right by building high standards across all aspects of school life and embedding and sustaining these standards within the habits and routines of its daily life… but we don’t want to just be good, we want to be great for our students and our community.
Every day we want our students to discover, thrive and feel that they belong here.
We constantly review the curriculum on offer to our students, and we work hard to ensure that teaching is of the highest quality and learning is both interesting and fulfilling. But this is only part of the education that is on offer. Our co-curricular programme offers genuine enrichment inside and beyond the classroom.
Sport (rugby, hockey, cricket, basketball, table tennis, athletics, handball) music (rock band, samba band, pop choir, multiple ensembles), theatre, art, textiles, D of E Award, chess, board games, creative writing, charity work… the list goes on. Thanks to the commitment of our incredible staff, what is on offer here at a state school is remarkable, providing that all-round education that we want our students to have access to. Because, for us it is important that the students mature into confident young adults, equipped with the qualifications and skills that they will need to make their next, successful steps in life.
STAFF WELLBEING
The wellbeing of staff is central to the approach taken by Governors and the Leadership Team at WGSB. We have an excellent sense of community within our whole staff, who work very hard as a team to support one another in their endeavours.
WGSB is a supportive institution with exceptional rates of staff retention. Our new staffing structure incorporating faculties has created new progression opportunities.
Below are examples of some of the systems we have developed to help maintain a happy and positive staff.
- Deadlines well publicised and staff are fully consulted on the academic calendar
- Reduced data collections and reporting
- Student Enrichment and Staff Wellbeing Lead in place
- Governors that meet regularly with staff to gather feedback, both monitoring and responding to staff needs.
- Greater PPA time than national recommendations
- One PPA per fortnight at home – either at beginning or end of the day
- A flexible and generous approach to family appointments and child events (including Family Flexi Day)
- Staff cake baking events
- Weekly complimentary fruit and pastries mornings
- Opportunities for professional development always considered
- Peer-led approach to lesson drop-ins, moderation and curriculum development
- Broad and open leadership team structure who are visible and accessible
- Headteacher ‘Open Door’ policy
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@wirralgrammarboys.com
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wirral Grammar School for Boys
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1043 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wirral Grammar School for Boys website
- Email address
- recruitment@wirralgrammarboys.com
- Phone number
- 0151 644 0908
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