Head of PSHE & Citizenship
Rainhill High School, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 6NY4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
28 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of department or curriculum
- Assistant headteacher
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subjects
- Citizenship, PSHE
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday 32.5 hrs per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £37,295 - £54,729
Pay scale
- Teachers MPR/UPR
Additional allowances
Includes TLR 2B £5,645 pro rata pa
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about PSHE & Citizenship with leadership aspirations, and would like to join a high performing school on the edge of Merseyside? Rainhill High, including Rainhill Sixth is the place for you.
We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, talented, and dynamic Head of PSHE & Citizenship to lead a strong committed team who can bring excellent leadership skills and outstanding teaching to Rainhill. You will have the capacity to enthuse, engage and inspire our young people through strong subject knowledge; you will be someone who thrives on collaboration and teamwork; a committed professional with high levels of personal motivation and ambition.
We are seeking to find staff who can deliver in the classroom but can also inspire children to make great progress and achieve fantastic outcomes. We are also looking for a teacher who will challenge themselves and others with evidence-based practice and the belief they can make a difference to what great PSHE & Citizenship should look like.
You will need to have excellent interpersonal skills, a genuine commitment to teaching and ability to develop a love of learning in this subject area. If you believe you have the skills and dedication to meet our standards, Rainhill High is the school for you.
Leading the development of the curriculum, teaching and learning
1. Has a deep understanding of the characteristics of a well-planned and sequenced curriculum. Highly effective teaching and learning secures commitment from all members of the team to focus relentlessly on improving practices
2. Use DSEF, DDP and QA to plan for excellence in learning (and teaching) to secure sustained knowledge and improvement in students’ progressions, T&L and student outcomes
3. Has secured other team members understanding of the subject curriculum, subject standards, and progression so that assessment is accurate and tracking data robust.
4. Students in specific groups (SEND, DIS, Boys) are consistently planned for and their needs are well understood.
Quality Assurance
1. QA is used intelligently, rigorously and consistently across the team to ensure every student’s progress and well-being are maximised.
2. The systematic collection of information from a wide variety of sources informs accurate and reflective 360 self-evaluation and leads to the implementation of actions necessary to achieve development.
3. Breaks down priorities in a systematic way and thinks creatively to meet these priorities.
Developing Others
1. Provides astute, ongoing mentoring and coaching both formally and informally.
2. Uses collaboration astutely to both improve the teaching and/or leadership of others as well as building team/organisational capacity.
3. Secures and/or provides a bespoke programme of professional development which leads to the continuous improvement of everyone’s performance.
4. Helps others to think through their development priorities and creates a clear plan for addressing needs. Anticipates views and feelings accordingly.
5. Models openness to new ideas and ongoing learning.
6. The use of all RHS CPD opportunities is prevalent and central to developing all members of the team.
Holding Others to Account
1. Clearly communicates expectations, and gives timely, constructive and specific feedback with confidence. Ensures objectives and achieved by making sure others do what is necessary, even if it involves tough or unpopular decisions. Actions are always instigated with the best interests of staff and students in mind.
2. Consistently demands high performance and holds others to account by challenging and effectively tackling underperformance. Upholds, lives and models RHS values through their daily leadership approach.
3. Astutely links QA and self-reflection, to performance development objectives which, in turn, connect with professional development provision.
Securing Productive Relationships
1. Develops and sustains highly productive internal and external working relationships, in order to empower, challenge, influence and motivate all members of the team.
2. Fosters an open, fair, equitable culture in line with RHS school values.
3. Works to build a shared vision and sense of belonging with diverse groups to tackle complex issues and instill professional trust.
4. Conflict is very rare and is managed efficiently and decisively, ensuring an effective resolution.
Managing Resources
1. Resources (including financial, human, environmental) are deployed highly intelligently by the leader to maximise student performance, staff development and secure value for money.
2. ‘Risk’ is managed highly effectively and ensures that impact is anticipated, planned for and limited.
3. The environment plans and operates with a culture of vigilance and anticipates and mitigates any health, safety and safeguarding.
Influencing and inspiring others
1. Promotes and upholds the school’s purpose and RHS & RH6 values. Articulates a compelling vision that inspires others to achieve the highest possible standards.
2. Promotes, develops and nurtures positive relationships and gains support commitment and discretionary effort from their team and beyond.
3. Inspires others to take on new ideas with enthusiasm.
4. Presents & communicates a range of audiences precisely & convincingly.
Strategic and aspirational
1. Understands the whole school priorities and their role in achieving them. Unites their team around a clearly articulated vision for their area of responsibility and establishes well-defined strategic priorities for improving curriculum, teaching, and learning and/or student development.
2. Highly ambitious and leads by example. Involves all team members in developing effective, creative and innovative strategies to achieve priorities and draws on research and best practice to inform improvements.
3. Triangulates priorities through accurate data analysis, 360 tracker and QA to evaluate progress. Regularly reviews progress against strategic priorities, remove barriers and adapt plans to secure ongoing improvement.
4. Cultivates productive networks, collaborations, and relationships within and beyond the school to maximise improvement.
5. Workload reduction is being actively supported and is effective.
Self-awareness
1. A reflective leader who understands their own strengths and areas for developments and how they impact others and uses this to
great effect.
2. Actively seeks feedback to become more self-aware.
Resilience and emotional maturity
1. Has a ‘growth mind-set’, believing everyone can grow and be developed from their initial talents and aptitudes.
2. Comes back stronger after professional challenge, setbacks or failure and epitomises optimism and confidence in the face of challenging situations.
3. Remains motivated and determined in the face of on-going uncertainty and demonstrates emotional intelligence in their leadership approach.
Experience Pupil Progress
Familiarity with the KS3, KS4 curriculum requirements
Familiarity with the KS5 curriculum requirements
To be able to articulate a vision for learning
Leadership
Ability of working collaboratively and successfully with colleagues to build trust and openness
Ability to stretch all students in their ‘Pursuit of Excellence’
Qualifications SkillsandAbilities
Strong academic background and subject knowledge
PGCE in relevant subject area
A strong interest in current developments in PSHE & Citizenship
Evidence of further professional development at a higher level.
Enthusiasm and ability to motivate and inspire students and staff
Reliable, punctual, diligent and well organised
Evaluate and plan effectively
Excellent communication skills
Willingness to be involved in the wider life of the school
Quality of Teaching
Ability and experience of teaching PSHE & Citizenship to KS4
Ability or experience of teaching PSHE & Citizenship to KS5
Excellent classroom practitioner and strong track record of examination results
National Standards
Evidence all of the Teaching Standards in routine practice
Ethos and Extra Curricular and Curriculum enrichment
Evidence of inclusive practice and commitment to safeguarding and the welfare of students
Evidence all of substantial contribution to extra-curricular activities
Commitment toEqual Opportunities
Ability to understand and demonstrate commitment to equality and diversity
What the school offers its staff
Rainhill High was graded as ‘Good’ by Ofsted in February 2023.
Our core values; Learn, Think, Contribute, Care, embody our determination to ensure that all our pupils receive a first-class education that enables them to take their place in society confidently. We are a popular and high-achieving school on the edge of Merseyside with a strong reputation locally and oversubscribed.
The school is working hard to make a difference to staff workloads by investing time, technology, and support to make Rainhill High School and Rainhill Sixth an attractive place to work.
Commitment to safeguarding
Rainhill High School and Sixth Form is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people as well as promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion; where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosing & Barring Certificate and online searches as part of our Safer Recruitment & Selection Procedures.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@rainhillhigh.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Rainhill High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1852 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Rainhill High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@rainhillhigh.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01744 677205
11-18 Mixed Comprehensive 1820 on roll
Rainhill High School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form centre located in Rainhill, Merseyside, England.
The school converted to an academy under Rainhill Learning Village in March 2017.
More recently, the school has become part of the Stephenson MAT and was graded as ‘Good’ by Ofsted in February 2023. The Academy is working hard to make a difference to staff workloads by investing time, technology, and support to make Rainhill High School and Rainhill Sixth an attractive place to work.
Our vision is one of excellence for everyone, pupils and staff. We believe that by working together we can make a positive difference to children’s lives.
Stephenson Trust is currently a single school in a multi academy trust. We have several external partners, including Hope University, Ambition Institute, The Fowler Education Faculty, SSAT, Rainbow teaching school hub and the educational endowment fund. We are now seeking to expand in the next couple of years with those who share our desire to provide an excellent education
Arranging a visit to Rainhill High School
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