Head of Science
Oakwood High School, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 2UHThis job expired on 9 December 2024
Start date details
Easter 2025 with early start negotiable
Closing date
9 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
20 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of department or curriculum
- Other leadership roles
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time, permanent, 32.5hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650 to £49,084 (depending on experience) + £12,035pa
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS +TLR1b
Additional allowances
TLR1b @ £12,035 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a well-qualified and experienced candidate who will join an enthusiastic, supportive and successful school as Head of Science within a highly successful and effective team within our Investigate Learning Zone (Mathematics and Science).
We seek
- An excellent, creative and enthusiastic leader with the ambition to attain the highest standards in teaching and learning throughout their role.
- A collaborative and driven practitioner who thoroughly enjoys teaching their subject and understands the importance in contributing to our pupils’ wider development.
Candidates will be truly committed to supporting pupils to progress and achieve, have high aspirations for the pupils’ success and will contribute to ongoing planning with imaginative and dynamic ideas. To enhance pupils’ learning and create independence, all pupils and staff are provided with an electronic device.
Our school has a focus on delivering a core curriculum as a priority to support all learning; all teachers are required to deliver and support both literacy and numeracy strategies alongside their specialism/s.
What the school offers its staff
We Offer:
- A supportive and successful school where staff work in a way that encourages a positive work environment that is solution focused and proactive for all.
- A school with a way of working that encourages a positive work environment that is solution focused and proactive for all.
We offer a positive working environment, we care about our learners, and we care about our staff, all of whom know and appreciate that. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of this, contributing to this culture and developing it further.
As a Trust we are truly community based and committed to developing a set of shared values through every aspect of our work. These values are the development of respect, responsibility, resourcefulness, resilience, reflection, risk taking and relationships
Further details about the role
Applicants are required to apply via our online application
form which is available on our website: https://www.inspiretrust.uk/vacancies/
Commitment to safeguarding
Inspire Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, other workers, and volunteers to share this commitment.
All candidates are expected to read the Trust’s Safeguarding Policy accessible via our website: https://www.inspiretrust.uk/page-template/statutory-documents/
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About Oakwood High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1061 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Oakwood High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- inspirehr@inspiretrust.uk
- Phone number
- 01709512222
Inspire Trust is a Multi Academy Trust based in Rotherham which includes Oakwood High School, Sitwell Junior School and Thomas Rotherham College.
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