Head of Maths

The Featherstone Academy, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF7 5AJ

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  24 August 2026

• Closing date

  18 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  6 May 2026

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: £58,569.00 - £64,691.00

Head of Maths job summary

Head of Maths

The Featherstone Academy, Pontefract Road, Featherstone, WF7 5AJ

Salary: L6-L10

Hours: Full time

Contract: Permanent

Start Date: 24 August 2026

 

The Featherstone Academy seeks to appoint an inspiring and ambitious Head of Mathematics to lead our accomplished team. The successful candidate will be an exceptional teacher with the skills to motivate and engage students, and a relentless ambition to enrich pupils’ lives. 

 

As Head of Mathematics you will:

·      Lead the skilled and dedicated maths department, shaping their development and offering guidance, support and examples of inspirational practice to colleagues.

·      Raise standards of student engagement, attainment and achievement in maths

·      Effectively evaluate the implementation of the maths curriculum and strategically plan for its future development.

 

This role may appeal to:

• An existing Head of Department who wants to come and lead a high performing team of exceptional teachers and learn from systems and processes that have made a real difference over time
• An aspirant Head of Department who is looking to learn in preparation for their next steps

Whatever your current role, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

 

We are proud to be part of Resilience Multi Academy Trust. Our ethos of resilience, empowerment and aspiration has helped to transform our schools as well as the lives of students and teachers. Our academies are a place where staff are supported to teach in the classroom through strategies which adhere to the principles of effective teaching. Colleagues learn and grow alongside our students and feel that they are making a real difference to the lives of those they teach. We believe that traditional values of discipline and respect are sacrosanct. We do not tolerate bullying, defiance or rudeness, and this has made for a harmonious and safe learning environment for our young people and a supportive environment for staff. Also, as a growing Multi-Academy Trust, there are always opportunities for career development and progression for ambitious and committed colleagues

 

The successful candidate will enjoy access to high quality CPD. You will also be joining a happy Trust where 95% of colleagues agreed that they enjoy working here and 92% would recommend us to a friend or colleague (taken from 2022 staff wellbeing survey). Our commitment to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter means we prioritise staff mental health, drive down unnecessary workload and support our colleagues to progress in their careers.

 

Want to know more? We welcome you to come and visit the academy. Please contact Clare Thompson, PA to the Principal at cthompson@featherstone.academy to book a visit.

 

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure check by the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About The Featherstone Academy

• School type: Academies, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 524 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Featherstone Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-featherstone-academy

The Featherstone Academy is committed to the traditional values of discipline, good behaviour and respect. We believe these to be sacrosanct. These values have created a learning environment in which all students can succeed. This environment is supported by an imaginative and differentiated curriculum in all year groups.

The staff of The Featherstone Academy are committed to ensuring the students who attend the academy are successful and able to achieve their goals, through hard work, recognition of their individual success and a relentless drive to ensure student achievement.
The curriculum instils resilience in our students the moment they enter the school and is continuous through their time with us. Encompassed within this innovative curriculum is our belief in a growth mindset. The belief that intelligence is far from fixed or inherited but an area we can all improve if we work hard and learn from our mistakes.

We encourage our students to experiment and take risks in their learning to establish an environment where intelligent failure is just the start on the road to success.
The Featherstone Academy is a lively, community academy which thrives on the positive relationships with parents and carers that support us and their child’s learning. We have unashamedly high expectations of our staff and students and look to promote a school friendly home to nurture and challenge our students.
We are a small school with an inclusive culture and warm ethos which is recognised by all who visit. Yet we have big ambitions to be a beacon of learning, aspirations and success for our local community.

The Featherstone Academy is working as part of The Rodillian Multi Academy (RMAT) to build upon February 2017 OFSTED grading of Outstanding for personal development, behaviour and welfare, and Good overall to ensuring it continues to increase the life chances of the students of this local community.
The Rodillian Multi Academy (RMAT) is a family of schools whose aim is to throw horizons wide open for students, schools and staff. A strong focus on resilience, growth mindset and positive discipline, the Rodillian Ethos has helped to transform The Featherstone Academy – from its culture to their Ofsted ratings – as well as the lives of students and teachers.

As part of The Rodillian Multi Academy Trust we are committed to providing private school opportunities in a modern comprehensive environment. Working alongside one of the country’s leading academies we are at the forefront of school improvement.

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