Head of Science
North Walsham High School, North Walsham, Norfolk, NR28 9HZDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
22 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £43,264.00 - £58,865.00 Annually (FTE) MPS/UPS + TLR1a - £9781
Head of Science job summary
“We put the success and happiness of our students at the heart of everything we do”.
North Walsham High School, part of the Enrich Learning Trust, is a small secondary school in Norfolk. We are a rapidly growing school that has a strong community of dedicated staff who live out our vision and put the success and happiness of our students at the heart of everything we do. This is underpinned by our core values of Trust, Resilience, Excellence and Kindness.
We are delighted to share our recent Ofsted report stating North Walsham High School is a "Good" school with "Outstanding" leadership and management. Most pleasingly it states: "At North Walsham High, pupils thrive".
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and inspirational full time Head of Science.
Key Responsibilities:
The key responsibilities of a Head of Science include, but are not limited to:
- Teach a full timetable of Science with requisite leadership time;
- Be enthusiastic and determined to achieve the very best outcomes;
- Be passionate about teaching and learning;
- Be committed to the school’s vision: “We put the success and happiness of our students at the heart of everything we do”;
- Embody and model our values of trust, resilience, excellence and kindness;
- Be dedicated to ensuring students continually improve;
- To lead continued improvement in Science;
- To lead work on reviewing and improving the Science curriculum;
- Manage the Science department;
- Work closely with our local primary schools;
- Teach both KS4 and KS3;
- Take an active part in CPD which includes regular and deliberate practice.
The North Walsham Approach to Teaching is an essential document at the heart of our approach to teaching and learning. The successful applicant will take on responsibility for the consistent implementation of The North Walsham Approach to Teaching. and lead its continued evolution.
Professional development opportunities are plentiful and we are always working hard to be innovative around workload- we want you to have a balanced life and enjoy working with our children! As such, we are proud of our strong, supportive policies on feedback, reporting and behaviour for learning (including centralised detentions) which all aim to support our staff members towards this goal.
Alongside this we have a clear, evidence informed approach to teaching and learning which is supported by our Instructional Coaching programme. This is captured in the North Walsham Approach to Teaching (see attached).
For an informal discussion or a visit please contact Miss Samantha Franklin (franklins@nwhs.uk).
Enrich Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding our students is of paramount importance to all staff at North Walsham High School.
We have robust procedures and systems in place to identify any concerns we have about our students and we act swiftly and proactively when dealing with these concerns.
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 North Walsham High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 617 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- North Walsham High School website
We put the success and happiness of our students at the heart of everything we do.
North Walsham High School is a rapidly growing school that has a strong community of dedicated staff who live out our vision and put the success and happiness of our students at the heart of everything we do. This is underpinned by our core values of Trust, Resilience, Excellence and Kindness. After a period of transformational change, we recently welcomed Ofsted to the school (December 2023) and we look forward to sharing our new report, once released, as part of this interview process.
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