Head of Maths

Hope Academy, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, WA12 0AQ

2 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  20 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  16 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £57,831 - £63,815

Head of Maths job summary

Join our dynamic and committed Maths department! Our amazing students enjoy the subject and the way it develops curiosity, confidence and problem solving. The Mathematics department is passionate, supportive and forward thinking. The department staffing is stable with a mix of experiences. We work together valuing collaboration, creativity and personal growth to get the best for our students, and are a lead school in North West Maths Hubs 3. After 4 years of improved results, we are delighted that the current Head of department has secured a promotion, leading to a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic and passionate leader to take the team to the next level!

The successful candidate will experience: 

 

• Amazing and appreciative students 

 

• A staff body that acts together as one team and supports each other 

 

• Flexible working for every teacher, leaving site at 1:30pm once per fortnight 

 

• A visible and present leadership team, with a focus on maintaining the highest standards of uniform, behaviour and manners 

 

• An academy that is part of the Department for Education Behaviour Hubs and has been identified as a best practice school nationally 

 

• A teaching and learning strategy that is rooted in latest research, and values creativity actively encouraging the individual teacher to become the best version of themselves 

 

• Investment in people, including weekly personal, subject and whole school CPD 

 

• A state-of-the-art £33 million pound building 

 

• Wellbeing as a priority. For example, free access to the on-site gym, team-building events such as staff rounders, football and tug of war, access to a full-time on-site counsellor, and regular opportunity to provide feedback that is genuinely listened to and acted upon. A friendly leadership team who genuinely want to help 

We hope that you wish to join us on our journey.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo safeguarding checks appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Trust is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. 

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About Hope Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England/Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1349 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hope Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hope-academy

Hope Academy is a £33 million joint faith Academy which opened in September 2011. We are currently on a journey to become an ‘outstanding Academy’. Staff and students are driven by our core values of Respect, Courage and Ambition

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