Head of Religious Education
Grace College, Gateshead, NE9 6LE22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter 2026
Closing date
13 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
16 January 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Religious education
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £41,817.00 - £59,947.00 Annually (FTE) MPS/UPS + 3 ESF Points (£8901)
Head of Religious Education job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an existing Head of Department or experienced teacher ready to step into leadership of a department and continue to develop their skills.
The successful candidate will provide the RE team with strategic and operational leadership, supporting teachers to improve their classroom practice with a relentless focus on ensuring that students achieve their academic personal best, as well as broadening and deepening the opportunities to explore and engage with the Christian faith through the wider life and culture of the school.
Emmanuel Schools Foundation is committed to observing the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 and in particular to eliminating bias and all unlawful discrimination. We strive to ensure that our core virtues are placed at the heart of everything we do and that they provide a foundation for upholding fairness and creating a workplace that is free of bias. We are a school within a trust, with a distinctive Christian ethos, whose practices and policies are informed by Christian beliefs and principles. The successful candidate will lead opportunities for students to engage with the Christian faith and support the development and implementation of a Christian worldview RE curriculum. There is an occupational requirement that the post-holder be a practising Christian.
As a Head of Department, you would be a member of the College Leadership Group where you would have the opportunity to share your opinion and input into a wide range of issues across College. We believe that Heads of Department should have the autonomy they need to lead their department and that they should be fully supported to do this by giving them a line manager who understands their department and subject well. Alignment with our school wide determination to ensure that our students receive the best possible quality of education, regardless of their barriers to learning, and grow in character is essential. All members of the department are valued and supported; strength of practice is celebrated as well as the cultivation of opportunities to grow the development of the individual.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
The successful candidate will:
- Be a practising Christian
- Be committed to student learning and raising achievement of all students through his/her teaching;
- Have very high expectations for the learning and achievements of all students;
- Be enthusiastic with the ability to inspire our students;
- Demonstrate consistently the qualities of an outstanding learning practitioner through his/her own professional work;
You will have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Religious Studies or a related subject;
- Teaching qualification (Secondary);
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS);
- Awareness of current developments in Religious Education with lifelong commitment to learning;
- Evidence of successful secondary teaching/teaching practice;
Further information is available in the job description and person specification.
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
- Free parking
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- 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.
If, prior to submitting your application, you wish to visit Grace College to find out more about the role and the College, then you would be most welcome.
This is an exciting opportunity for an existing Head of Department or experienced teacher ready to step into leadership of a department and continue to develop their skills:
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
- School size
- 1146 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- 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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