Head of History
Manchester Communication Academy, Manchester, M40 8NT4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 April 2026 at 9am
Date listed
20 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- History
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours per week.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 - M6 / UPS plus TLR2b (£5,869)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Purpose
- To provide strategic direction in securing high quality provision and processes that ensure an outstanding education for all students within the faculty.
- To quality assure teaching learning and assessment throughout the faculty, ensuring that every lesson counts.
- To ensure that the quality of education for all pupils is a focus for continual improvement.
- To ensure that staff experience an appropriate balance between work and home.
- To be prepared to take calculated risks, be innovative and forward thinking.
- Develop and implement an excellent curriculum that builds and secures knowledge and allows all students to succeed.
- To lead the department in making a significant contribution to the Academy Numeracy strategy.
- To implement the department improvement plan which contributes positively to the Academy improvement plan.
- To make a measurable contribution to student progress and attainment.
- To contribute to the development of whole school strategic planning and policies.
Staff development- within the faculty
- Take responsibility for the Professional Development of identified staff.
- Ensure that staff are supported and there is a culture where being better never ends.
- Support all staff in making progress towards achieving targets by engaging appropriate external support and facilitating the sharing of effective practice.
- Ensure any practice requiring improvement is linked to a measurable action plan and monitored routinely and regularly.
- Identify any aspects of underperformance at teacher level and oversee an effective programme of support that ensures improvement or results in further action.
- Ensure that all staff embark on a pathway to improve student performance.
- To work proactively with the team to create valuable working relationships that thrives on using the knowledge and expertise of individuals to produce optimal outcomes.
Quality Assurance- within the faculty
- Monitor, evaluate and review the processes for quality assuring teaching and learning and link this to student progress.
- Lead the faculty quality assurance system, ensuring staff collaborate effectively and plan lessons effectively.
- Regularly review the quality of education through observed practice and work Head of History | Manchester Communication Academy | March 2026 sampling and wider innovative systems.
- Support the development of staff through supportive observed practice, coaching and mentoring.
- Acknowledge the responsibilities and celebrate the achievements of individuals and teams.
- To ensure all staff understand, and are actively implementing, the key aspects of the school’s behaviour and inclusion polices.
Teaching & Learning
● Model excellence in the classroom and provide training/support for staff to develop excellence in teaching and learning.
● Improve outcomes for children by ensuring the highest quality of teaching and learning.
● Promote the active involvement of students in their own learning.
● Share in the development of effective teaching, learning and assessment and implement rigorous support processes to ensure that learning is consistent at all levels.
● Promote extra-curricular activities and out of hours learning which enhance learning opportunities.
● Support strategies for enhancing teaching and learning to ensure all lessons lead to excellent student outcomes.
● Ensure that data is utilised intelligently to support excellence in learning and
teaching through pedagogy that encourages and supports high levels of
progress and attainment.
What the school offers its staff
The Trust is fully committed to it’s ethos of with you…for you…about you…Not just for our students but also for all of our staff.
Student and Staff well-being is high on our agenda and your professional development and interests are a priority for us. We want our young people to get the best possible deal and that can only be achieved if their teachers are happy, healthy and know that they are valued. Our commitment to you includes but is not exclusive to:
No marking policy-feedback policy is evidence informed.
No written reports.
One Flexi-Day a year, fully paid.
All quality assurance is collaborative and transparent-we do not apply judgements.
All funeral requests granted without question.
We expect you to attend your child’s nativity or open morning.
No meetings after school.
No additional cover outside of directed time.
Teaching staff have 20% protected non-contact time.
All detentions are centralised and facilitated by pastoral team, not teachers.
We develop leadership positions and undertake shadow-staffing/succession planning
exercises to see who we need to retain.
PM is called Performance Development and we focus on how to continue to thrive and excel
in the areas of your role that you already enjoy and demonstrate brilliance.
All new staff are buddied up with a mentor outside of their faculty area.
We make a big deal out of events that support your well-being, such as random acts of kindness, Macmillan coffee mornings, cultural diversity celebrations, Thank a Teacher. Staff are recognised and rewarded through our staff recognition scheme
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Apply for this jobAdditional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Manchester Communication Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1299 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Manchester Communication Academy website
- Email address
- k.cunningham@gmatrust.co.uk
Manchester Communication Academy serves the community of Harpurhey and its surrounding districts. We are an 11-16 secondary school with a primary school also on site. Close collaboration between the two schools is fundamental to our way of working.
Not only is the Academy committed to offering our students the highest quality learning experience but the Social Investment Department is dedicated to offering opportunities and support to our local families and wider community. Together, our driving force is to mitigate the impact of disadvantage and ensuring that the young people that we serve are equipped and ready to be successful and happy adults who we are proud to know.
Everyone at MCA shares these same values and this is important to us.
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