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  • Closing date

    13 September 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    26 August 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher or lecturer

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

History

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full time equivalent salary

MPS - UPS & TLR2b

Additional allowances

MPS - UPS & TLR2b

Head of History job summary

Head of History

MPS/UPS + TLR2b
North Durham Academy

Are you an exceptional History teacher ready to lead, inspire and make a lasting impact? We are seeking an ambitious and enthusiastic Head of History to lead our department and drive outstanding outcomes for students.

This is an exciting opportunity for a talented educator with a passion for History and a commitment to excellence. You will provide strategic leadership for the department, ensuring high-quality teaching and learning, an engaging curriculum, and a culture where both students and staff can thrive.

Working closely alongside the Head of Humanities, you will play a key role in shaping the vision and direction of the wider Humanities faculty while leading the continued development of History. Together, you will champion high standards, curriculum innovation and a shared commitment to improving outcomes for all students.

As Head of History, you will be responsible for raising standards of achievement, supporting colleagues to deliver outstanding lessons and ensuring that History remains a dynamic, engaging and highly successful subject. Working with senior leaders and the Head of Humanities, you will use data effectively to secure strong student progress, lead curriculum development, and ensure that all learners are challenged and supported to achieve their full potential.

We are looking for someone who is an outstanding classroom practitioner with a proven track record of securing excellent outcomes for students. You will have the ability to inspire young people, motivate colleagues and foster a culture of high expectations and continuous improvement. Leadership experience within a secondary school setting is essential, together with strong organisational and communication skills and a commitment to professional development.

In return, we offer the opportunity to work within a supportive and ambitious school community where staff development is valued, leadership is encouraged and success is celebrated. This role would suit an experienced middle leader seeking a broader leadership opportunity, or an ambitious teacher looking to take the next step in their career.

If you have the vision, passion and determination to lead a successful History department and work collaboratively with the Head of Humanities to shape an exceptional Humanities provision, we would love to hear from you.

Please note that we operate a probationary period of 4 months across all jobs in the Trust. You will receive a comprehensive induction to support you to successfully pass your probation.

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.
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Commitment to safeguarding

Connect Multi-Academy Trust is legally obligated to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before making appointments to relevant posts. The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and bind-overs as well as pending prosecutions, which aren't 'protected' under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and check to establish that a person is not barred from 'regulated activity' as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.

Applying for the job

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About North Durham Academy

Organisation type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary school
Size
935 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Website
North Durham Academy website
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Connect Multi-Academy Trust is an ambitious Multi Academy Trust based in North Durham. The trust currently has 3 large secondary schools and 5 primary schools.

Our schools are at the heart of their local communities and strive to deliver on our founding principles of Inclusion, Progression and Excellence which supports a central vision of ‘Students First’.

The principle of inclusion provides opportunities for students of all abilities, aspirations and backgrounds and involving staff, governors, students and the wider community in determining the direction of our Trust. Our curriculums are broad and challenging, with the academic success of students at the heart of what we do.

To encourage progression, our schools provides effective advice and guidance. This enables learners to make informed and appropriate decisions for future study and employment, encouraging them to take on new challenges and reach higher levels of achievement.

The focus on excellence underpins all we do whether in learning areas, working in the community or governing and leading our schools.

The Trust recognises that safeguarding our children and young people is core to all our activities, and we expect all staff, volunteers and wider stakeholders to share this commitment.

Our Aims are:
To ensure our schools are centres of excellence with a focus on the nurture and achievement of all their members;
To promote mutual support, encouragement and benefit between our academies;
To develop, as the core foundation of academic achievement, a strong culture of professional development amongst our staff;
To celebrate and maintain the unique identity of communities we serve with each school at the heart of its community;
To recognise and enable all those who often remain invisible, through ethnic or cultural disadvantage, or through disability or poverty to achieve their full potential.
At North Durham Academy, we are openly focused on the educational outcomes of our students and firmly believe that placing the student at the centre of everything we do will ensure that they leave with both the best possible grades and having had the best possible experiences throughout their time with us.

In order to realise this, we work with our vision in mind at all times:

“For all students and staff to want to learn and work at a good school; and for all parents/carers from our community to want to send their children to a good school.”

There are a number of key principles that underpin the vision, which are:

Outstanding care for each and every individual
A relentless drive and focus to ensure that each and every student achieves their true potential
A focus on the quality of education and on high standards
A broad and balanced curriculum
A range of in-school and extra-curricular experiences to prepare our students for life in modern society
Superb facilities which support and enhance learning at all levels including achievement and engagement

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