Head of Maths
Burnt Mill Academy, Harlow, Essex, CM20 2NR20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
29 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Commensurate with previous experience
Head of Maths job summary
Head of Maths
Specific Responsibilities
Leading the Faculty
To provide a clear vision for the Maths Faculty.
To raise attainment in the faculty to ensure it exceeds national averages and add significant value to learners so they make beyond expected progress.
To monitor the performance of all groups of learners across all subjects at least once a term.
To ensure pupils are entered for the appropriate public examinations at the appropriate stage.
To lead the faculty to produce an annual improvement plan, taking account of the needs of all the subject areas.
To ensure that all teachers in the faculty have the curriculum knowledge to enable them to deliver their subject to the highest standard.
To support and assist teachers within the department to ensure they understand and implement the Academy's policies, especially on assessment, homework, behaviour and developing the quality of teaching, lesson planning and schemes of work and outstanding learning and teaching.
To Performance Manage the Second in Department and Lead Practitioners in the faculty.
To lead the Lead Practitioners within the faculty to ensure that they are able to contribute to improving
To lead the monitoring of teaching and learning across the faculty and report annually on the standards of leadership, teaching and learning in the designated subjects.
To provide regular progress updates to the Leadership Team.
Management Responsibilities
Day-to-day organisation of the faculty including organising any cover arrangements for members of the team.
To manage the allocation of all resources including staffing, annual capitation, and all consumable resources.
To ensure the Maths Faculty timetable is up to date and staff are deployed correctly.
To maintain the setting and groupings across the faculty.
To monitor the schemes of work, daily lesson planning of all teachers across the faculty.
To organise team meetings and team briefings.
About the School
Burnt Mill is a caring and friendly school and our students tell us that when they come to school, they feel happy, safe and they enjoy their learning. This positive environment, where our students are supported and inspired to be the best that they can possibly be, enables every child to thrive. Indeed, many pupils enjoy school life so much that they often stay until 5.00 pm to continue their studies or to participate in extra-curricular activities.
About the Trust
BMAT is a thriving community of schools, committed to providing an outstanding education for every student attending one of our schools. We create environments where individuals matter, confidence flourishes, and every child can achieve exceptional outcomes. We currently oversee seven secondary academies and five primary academies, primarily located in Harlow, with additional sites in Newham and Stansted.
The Trust’s vision is clear - to work together to smash through the barriers that prevent children from becoming confident, high-achieving, and independent individuals.
What can BMAT offer you?
BMAT provides a range of benefits to support your personal and professional well-being:
- Enhanced and flexible PPA
- Generous employer pension contribution through Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme
- Private healthcare benefits, including 24/7 Doctorline access
- Home and electronic salary sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to work
- Discounted Gym membership through salary sacrifice
- Lifestyle and discount savings
- Workplace nursery fee salary sacrifice scheme via Yellownest
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for wellbeing support
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 school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Burnt Mill Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 987 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Burnt Mill Academy website
School location
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