Head of Faculty - English
Bullers Wood School for Boys, Bromley, BR1 2NW18 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
23 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
4 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary range between £50,546 and £64,765 includes £8,611 TLR 2C
Pay scale
- M3 to UP3
Additional allowances
The advertised salary already includes the £8,611 TLR 2C
What skills and experience we're looking for
Person Specification
We are seeking an outstanding Head of Faculty - English who combines strong subject expertise with the ability to lead a team, improve outcomes and build an ambitious reading and writing culture.
Essential criteria (shortlistable)
- Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a strong degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject.
- Experience & impact: A track record of securing strong progress and outcomes in English, with evidence of impact over time.
- Curriculum & assessment: Experience of leading or significantly contributing to curriculum design and assessment in English (KS3 and/or KS4).
- Leadership & people: Ability to lead, coach and develop colleagues; experience of line management, mentoring or supporting ECTs/trainees is advantageous.
- Data & improvement: Confidence using data to diagnose need, plan intervention and evaluate impact.
- Inclusion: A commitment to inclusive practice for disadvantaged pupils and students with SEND, with evidence of removing barriers to learning.
- Personal qualities: High expectations, strong organisation and the ability to build positive relationships with pupils, staff and families.
Desirable criteria
- Experience as an examiner/moderator or evidence of strong assessment literacy.
- Experience leading whole-school literacy, reading programmes or cross-curricular writing.
- Evidence of successfully engaging boys in reading and writing through evidence-informed approaches.
- Experience of developing enrichment (e.g., debating, creative writing, theatre/author visits).
What the school offers its staff
Why join us
A rare and exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, hardworking team and lead in an excellent boys’ school.
This opportunity has arisen following the current Head of Faculty’s decision to begin a phased retirement. They will step down from this post but remain a teacher at the school. Having been in post since the school’s inception, they have built the department into the fantastic success it is today and are now keen to hand over the leadership for the Faculty’s next phase of development.
This is a close-knit department with low staff turnover. The team has worked collaboratively to develop a curriculum that meets the needs of our community and fully prepares students for later life. Our curriculum incorporates key classic texts, while also giving students opportunities to experience less well-known texts with complex themes and challenging narratives.
All staff are provided with a laptop. Each classroom has a visualiser and a state-of-the-art Promethean interactive board. As a Microsoft school, we make use of Teams for collaboration within the school and across the wider Trust.
As a forward-thinking organisation, we are in our second year of trialling staff taking their PPA from home, meaning a late start (09:15) or an early finish (12:45) once a week. This project has been extremely well received by staff.
We operate an open-door policy, where colleagues are welcome to drop into one another’s lessons and provide developmental feedback, as well as “shout-outs” shared with the wider staff.
We would welcome and highly recommend a visit and tour in advance of an application.
Application deadline: 9am, Monday, 23rd February 2026
Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and Inicio Educational Trust reserves the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.
Benefits:-
Government pension scheme
Employment Assisted Programme
Professional Development
Further information about the job
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bullers Wood School for Boys
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 894 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bullers Wood School for Boys website
- Email address
- crobertson@iniciotrust.org
Thank you for expressing an interest in our school. As the founding Headteacher, I am delighted to welcome you to Bullers Wood School for Boys, a boys’ comprehensive school in Bromley.
We opened in September 2018 and are now in our fifth year of operation. We have 900 boys on roll from Years 7 to 11. Our ambition is for our boys to progress on to Bullers Wood Sixth Form, located on our partner school site - Bullers Wood School for Girls.
Our aim is to provide an outstanding education for boys within a culture of high aspiration, courtesy and respect. It is our core belief that all of our boys can enjoy and achieve success whatever their starting points.
In February, the School underwent its first ever OFSTED Inspection where Inspectors rated the school as ‘Good’ in all categories. The successful candidate will be joining an organisation where “Leaders have created a school in which their vision of ‘healthy, happy, resilient and successful’ pupils guides every aspect of school life.” It is a place where “pupils feel happy and safe” and where relationships are “welcoming and peaceful.”
Our first cohort of Year 11 boys will be sitting their GCSE examinations this summer. Therefore, with our first ever set of GCSE results and an Ofsted Inspection under our belts, we will be an established ‘grown-up’ school.
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