Head of Science

Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX

2 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September 2025

• Closing date

  19 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  16 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Science
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £39,656.00 - £57,444.00 Annually (Actual) AST 1-12 £31,756-£49,544 plus Head of Department allowance £7,900

Head of Science job summary

Head of Science

We are seeking to appoint a Head of Science to deliver high quality subject leadership and teaching for our growing secondary school, located in Houghton Regis.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a committed, friendly and professional team of middle leaders and teachers providing a transformational quality of education to the pupils in our thriving school. At Houstone School, our values of aspiration, endeavour, and respect, underpinned by very high expectations and drive in everything that we do. We have a powerful culture which is warm but strict, based on clear routines, systems, and structures. As a result, our teachers enjoy their teaching with impeccable behaviour in lessons and hardworking, highly motivated pupils.

Joining Houstone School as a Head of Department is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our story – providing transformational experiences for thousands of pupils, developing our staff to be the very best they can be, and influencing the wider system by demonstrating first-hand what is achievable.

Main Duties

To inspire, lead, manage and develop the teaching staff within the department

To refine and deliver a world-class curriculum in Science.

To ensure that teaching and learning is supported by the most robust research and evidence

To prepare pupils for academic success and inspire a love of learning that goes beyond examinations

To be accountable for raising standards of pupil achievement within the department and to monitor and support pupil progress

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of developments within your specialism

To be a member of the middle leaders’ group and support the wider development and leadership within the school

To be a designated form tutor and the key home-school link for pupils.

The successful candidate will

Be a supportive Head of Science who can oversee a number of Science subjects.

Have qualified Teacher Status and a track record of achieving successful outcomes for pupils at all prior attainment levels.

Be confident in planning, delivery, and assessment of learning activities for identified groups of students at Key Stage 3, 4 and 5.

Have experience of managing people and the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues.

Have experience of successfully supporting pupils as a form tutor or in a pastoral role.

Have energy, drive and enthusiasm to support change in the future development of the school

Have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Be well organised and efficient with the ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team within a busy environment.

Job Specifics

Start Date 1st September 2025

Salary £31,756-£49,544 AST 1-12 plus Head of Department allowance £7,900

Contract Full time, Permanent

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

Safeguarding

We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.

Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:

“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”

The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Houstone School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 517 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Houstone School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/houstone-school

Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.

There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.

Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.

Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.

We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.

Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.

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