Head of Science
Queen Elizabeth's Academy, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG19 7AP9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
20 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
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What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about science and inspiring young people to achieve their very best? Do you strive for excellence and enjoy working collaboratively to secure the highest standards of teaching and learning?
Queen Elizabeth’s Academy is seeking to appoint an inspirational Head of Science to lead our highly committed, experienced, and hard-working faculty. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated leader to further develop and manage the delivery of science across the academy, ensuring high levels of student progress and attainment.
At Queen Elizabeth’s Academy, we are fully committed to science education; all students study Triple Science at GCSE, reflecting our ambition for breadth, depth, and academic excellence in the subject.
This post is suitable for an experienced teacher with proven leadership or management experience. The successful candidate will be expected to teach across the full age and ability range and demonstrate a strong track record of success across key stages. As Head of Science, you will lead and develop a team of dedicated colleagues, fostering a culture of excellence and ensuring the highest quality of teaching and learning, as well as enriching wider opportunities for our students.
Our science faculty is well resourced, with suites of modern laboratories, preparation rooms, and specialist technicians. We are looking for a candidate who will bring energy, passion, and enthusiasm for science, inspiring and engaging our students while continuing to raise standards.
What the school offers its staff
The successful candidate will:
- Have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of students
- Be an excellent teacher and a committed team player
- Have a proventrack recordof success and raising student attainment
- Deliver innovative and creative lessons which engage and challenge students to achieve their full potential
- Be committed to the academy’s ethos of high expectations.
Our employee benefits
At Diverse Academies, you’ll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.
In return you will benefit from:
- Enrolment into the Teacher Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of at least 23.68%.
- Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities covering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’s Diverse Association for Professional Learning.
- Full support and induction.
- A strong and caring ethos among staff and students.
- Networking opportunities across Diverse Academies.
- Salary sacrifice opportunities such as car, cycle and technology schemes.
- Staff discounts and offers on gym membership, holidays, days out, cinema tickets, restaurants and top online shopping sites including instant voucher codes.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme – emotional, financial and legal support to both you and your family by a team of qualified professionals.
- Health and Wellbeing delivered through our occupational health provider, eyecare vouchers for a free eye test and contribution towards glasses for display screen equipment users.
- Access to a free onsite fitness suite.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Queen Elizabeth's Academy
- School type
- Academies, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 879 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Queen Elizabeth's Academy website
- Email address
- tpiper@queenelizabeths-ac.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01623 623559
Queen Elizabeth's Academy is a growing secondary school for students aged 11-18 years based in Mansfield with over 900 students. In both our latest Ofsted and SIAMS inspections, we were rated ‘good’ overall with feedback that our academy has ‘established a culture that supports all pupils to learn well’ and that ‘pupils understand the school’s Christian values well’.
Arranging a visit to Queen Elizabeth's Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email tpiper@queenelizabeths-ac.org.uk.
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