Head of Mathematics
Grace College, Gateshead, NE9 6LE11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
17 October 2025 at 10am
Date listed
24 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £63,091.40 - £67,922.49 Annually (Actual)
Head of Mathematics job summary
Grace College are looking to recruit a Head of Mathematics who will enthuse pupils to learn with a combination of great subject knowledge, energy and dedication.
We have high expectations for our students as they grow and develop and all our staff provide important role models to them in terms of positive attitude, work ethic and diligence.
The successful candidate will be responsible to their line manager for:
The strategic development of the department through leadership and management of the staff team within the department with particular emphasis on:
- the formation and implementation of the department development plan, the sharing of best practice among colleagues and ensuring effective and professional communication with students and parents.
- the appraisal and professional development of colleagues through training, observation,
- targeted improvement and guidance.
- effective deployment of the resources of the department including the management of the department budget, maintaining a safe professional and well-presented environment, and an effective and appropriately staffed department timetable.
The achievement of exceptional academic standards for students studying in the department with particular emphasis on:
- oversight of the curriculum, ensuring that high quality schemes of work that stretch, challenge and take students beyond the examined curriculum are in place, that homework and class work tasks are of a suitably high standard and that provision is made by teachers for those with Special Educational Needs.
- the scrutiny of academic standards within each department to inform progression and the setting of students, ensuring that departmental policies are being followed and that students' written work is of an outstanding standard and that high expectations are made of students in terms of literacy.
- the management and use of assessment processes within the department, ensuring that high quality feedback is provided to students, parents and senior leaders.
The leadership of character development with particular emphasis on:
- establishing approaches to cultivating responsibility for learning and intellectual discipline within the classroom and beyond, supporting teachers through departmental reports and other strategies to promote exemplary standards of discipline, deportment and dress within and beyond the classroom in line with the College discipline policy.
- intentional provision of quality opportunities for servant-hearted leadership within the department and the mentoring of Sixth Form leaders who hold positions of responsibility within the department.
- the outstanding provision for Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural education of young people within the department.
Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
- Defined benefit pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Daily lunch allowance
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- Free parking
- Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Grace College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1146 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Grace College website
As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy, as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.
We are committed to realising the potential of our students and staff alike. Our hope and expectation are that each person will be deeply valued as infinitely precious, challenged to grow in character and inspired by learning together to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.
Join us and you can expect to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged at every step of your career. We put staff professional learning and development front and centre of everything we do in our partnerships with outstanding regional and national organisations. Ultimately, we are looking for the school leaders of tomorrow who will contribute here at Grace College and across the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.
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