Head of Geography
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Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
7 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
20 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,000.00 - £46,525.00 Annually (FTE) + TLR 2B (£5346)
Head of Geography job summary
You’ll be joining our passionate and exceptionally performing department which nurtures and develops our student's historical knowledge. Our department has had highly positive progress rates for the last two years and around a 70% 9-4 pass rate and progress score of 0.4. Our Geography department also nurtures a love of subject through a range of innovative teaching techniques and activities.
Henley in Arden School are proud to be part of the Arden Multi-Academy Trust; the support mechanism of our schools ensures that leaders collaborate and innovate together to provide an outstanding educational experience for our school, and provides continuous opportunity for further development for our staff.
We’d love to hear from teachers who are looking for an exciting new challenge to impact the lives of our students. You’ll be joining our ever-improving school, which year on year ensures all our students are prepared for the next step in their education.
We promise to offer you both a stimulating and highly rewarding experience in return for your motivational skills and good practice. Opportunities don’t arise very often to work in a vibrant school like Henley in Arden and we are delighted to be offering the chance for someone to join the team.
Please see our Application Information Pack (including the person specification), and full job description.
In return we can offer you:
- A positive and innovative learning culture supported by students, staff, parents and governors
- A collaborative and supportive attitude amongst staff which promotes a sense of teamwork and unity
- A Senior Leadership team who is committed to promoting the best environment and outcomes for staff and students
- Cycle to Work scheme
- The potential to collaborate and work with other staff in our Multi-Academy Trust.
Visits are strongly advised for an opportunity to visit our school, talk to the Headteacher and meet our fantastic students to get a feel for our ethos, ahead of interviews. For an informal chat about this exciting opportunity, please contact Mrs Sally Smith, our Office Manager, on 01564 797550 or email ssmith@henleyschool.com
Henley-in-Arden School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and it expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS including a Children’s Barred List check.
Please access our website to understand why Henley is a special place to work:
Henley-in-Arden School | Achieving Excellence Together (henleyschool.com)
Where better to teach and support our staff and students than in the district of Stratford-upon-Avon, at the heart of Shakespeare's county? Visits to our green-field site, bordered by the River Alne, are welcome (and encouraged!) so that you may see for yourself why Ofsted describe our flourishing students as, ‘friendly, welcoming and happy’ and our staff as’ overwhelmingly positive’ about their roles (December 2022). Come and join our experienced and high performing Science department.
Click here to see more about working in our school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzd-sZRAGaw
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.
About Henley In Arden School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 699 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Henley In Arden School website (opens in new tab)
School location
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