Head of Science
Winchcombe School, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL54 5LB16 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
6 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650-£49,084 p.a. depending on experience
Additional allowances
TLR2C - £8,279p.a.
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you an enthusiastic, innovative and ambitious secondary Science Teacher ready to take your next step in a managerial role?
Winchcombe School is looking for a permanent full-time specialist Teacher of Science to lead the Department (of four teaching colleagues and a technician). The ideal candidate will be a good leader and a dynamic teacher; in addition to a science-based degree and the necessary teaching qualifications, you’ll be enthusiastic and able to motivate students to achieve their best. We will consider applications from excellent candidates for whom this will be their first leadership role.
Do you have what it takes to help the school towards its goal of being outstanding and to ensure that all pupils reach their full potential? If yes, then we would love to hear from you.
Full details are available in the Applicant Pack on the Vacancies page of Winchcombe School website.
Please email your application (standard Balcarras Trust form) together with a covering email/letter to personnel@winchcombeschool.co.uk.
Apply by: Tuesday 6 May 2025 at 9am
Interview Date: Week starting Monday 12 May 2025
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- An exceptional and friendly working environment
- Continued professional development
- The opportunity to work for an experienced leadership team and successful Trust
- Employee Support Helpline
- Cycle to Work scheme; free parking on site and electric charging points
- Teachers’ Pension enrolment
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/social media checks
Prohibition from teaching
Right to work in UK
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to personnel@winchcombeschool.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Winchcombe School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 491 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Winchcombe School website
- Email address
- personnel@winchcombeschool.co.uk
Winchcombe School (part of the Balcarras Trust) is a successful and thriving comprehensive academy for students aged 11 to 16 years. We are a close-knit and caring school, set in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Winchcombe itself is an attractive small historic town approximately 7 miles from Cheltenham Spa and with regular bus links.
Our students’ attitudes to learning are positive and they participate willingly and with interest in school life. We are a vibrant and forward-thinking school with well-established community links and strong partnerships with parents. The School is rated ‘good’ by Ofsted (March 2022) and has celebrated excellent GCSE results over the past couple of years.
Our staff also enjoy being part of a supportive community and feel valued for the part they play in the school; we currently have around 70 members of staff in leadership, teaching, support, pastoral, admin and premises roles.
Staff Professional Development and Welfare: Our Senior Leadership Team is committed to supporting professional development and where budget allows, will endeavour to fund training courses which will help staff to complete their job in a more effective manner. Our links to Balcarras and Leckhampton Schools enable teaching staff to collaborate with colleagues across the Trust to share best practice.
For more information about our aims, ethos and school in general, please see our website.
Arranging a visit to Winchcombe School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email personnel@winchcombeschool.co.uk.
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