Head of Social Sciences

Moseley School and Sixth Form, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 9UU

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st January 2025

• Closing date

  11 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  25 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Social sciences
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPR with a TLR 2b enhancement
• Additional allowances:

  MPS/UPR with a TLR 2b enhancement

Head of Social Sciences job summary

We are looking for a dynamic, passionate teacher to lead our Social Science department. Our Social Science department consists of A- Levels in Psychology, Sociology, Criminology, Law and Applied BTEC Psychology. The Social Sciences faculty also, has within it other subjects such as Health & Social Care and EPQ. This is a highly popular faculty with our GCSE and Sixth Form students and has excellent outcomes for those who choose to study Social Science subjects.

Our perfect teaching candidate will be:

• Qualified to degree level in a relevant subject.
• Relevant teaching practice and training with the subject area.
• Ability to inspire and motivate students and staff.
• Ability to lead and work collaboratively.
• Have excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.

Working Time:

Full-time as specified within the current STPCD and to also work as a classroom teacher and form tutor.

Core Purpose:

Provide professional leadership and management of Social Sciences to secure high quality teaching and the effective use of resources and improved standards of learning and achievement for all students.

Ensure that students make positive progress against prior attainment, by ensuring that teaching is consistently of a high quality, progress is monitored, and appropriate measures are taken to address any areas of underachievement.

Responsibilities for all teachers:

• Meet the relevant Teachers’ Standards
• Promote the values and aims of the school
• Follow all relevant school policies
• To be aware of, and assume the appropriate level of responsibility for, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and to report any concerns in accordance with the school’s safeguarding policies
• Create and maintain effective partnerships with parents and carers
• Treat students, parents and colleagues fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect
• To comply with the school’s Health & Safety policy and statutory requirements
• Plan lessons and sequences of lessons, ensuring lessons have pace and variety, that learning is personalised to meet individual learning needs and that teaching caters for the full range of learning styles of students
• Ensure that teaching reflects the diversity of backgrounds of students and promotes mutual respect
• Contribute to regular curriculum review to help maintain a relevant, stimulating and innovative curriculum provision
• Take responsibility for personal continuous professional development to ensure that knowledge and skills are kept up to date with respect to subject(s), pedagogy and curriculum developments plus wider school, local and national issues
• Assess progress of students in line with policy and records to ensure regular feedback and encouragement is given to students to take responsibility for their own learning
• Instigate measures to address the causes of identified underperformance and monitor the effectiveness of those measures
• Submit assessments to the school database, and complete students’ reports for parents’ consultation deadlines in school calendar, ensuring they provide an accurate record of the progress of everyone and meeting high quality standards
• Complete registers to monitor attendance and punctuality and take action to address any issues
• Utilise appropriate behaviour management strategies in lessons in line with school policy
• Participate in lesson observation and other measures to monitor delivery of learning outcomes and quality of teaching and implement measures to address any improvement issues identified
• Participate in the appraisal process, identifying personal professional development priorities which will impact on students’ learning

Specific responsibilities of this role:

• To be an inspirational role model for staff and students
• To develop an ethos of scholarship and success for students and staff within the subject
• To raise the achievement of students within the subject
• To provide a rich and varied Social Science curriculum to excite and inspire students
• Ensure that each student’s literacy, EAL and special needs are understood and catered for in the subject areas
• Ensure that each student makes good progress from their relative starting points
• To develop the quality of teaching and learning and contribute to in-house professional development
• To assist the Headteacher in arrangements for the appraisal of the performance of teachers and support staff
• To monitor and evaluate classroom practice, student progress and behaviour
• In collaboration with faculty colleagues formulate a faculty improvement plan
• Have responsibility for the quality, standardisation and moderation of all aspects of assessment for the subject across all key stages to ensure exacting standards and accurate tracking of student progress
• Monitor the quality of teaching and assessment of Social Science subjects
• Provide support to the head of faculty for staffing / cover arrangement on a day-to-day basis
• Develop innovative approaches to the curriculum in order to ensure appropriate access and achievement for all students
• Inform and work closely with parents to maximise the learning and development of their children through scheduled meetings, progress reports, parents’ evenings and otherwise as required
• Liaise with other schools as necessary to ensure continuity of learning and to achieve the benefits of co-operation and collaboration

Responsibilities of form tutors:

• Provide support to a form group within our House system including the planning, preparation and delivery of tutor sessions
• Promote positive attitudes to learning through learning conversations with students and families
• Establish a learning culture for students with high expectations for attendance, punctuality, conduct and performance
• Monitor students’ progress in terms of personal development and instigate measures to address any identified concerns
• Instigate measures to address the causes of identified underperformance and monitor the effectiveness of those measures
• Complete registers to monitor attendance and punctuality and take action to address any issues
• Utilise appropriate behaviour management strategies in lessons in line with school policy

We welcome visitors to the school. Please contact recruitment@moseley.bham.sch.uk if you have any questions about the role or School and would like to arrange a visit.

Please note this advert may close when sufficient applications are received.

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 14th October 2025.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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

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

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Moseley School and Sixth Form

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1428 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Moseley School and Sixth Form website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/moseley-school-and-sixth-form

The staff at Moseley School and Sixth Form are a passionate team of professionals. Our purpose is to inspire excellence in character and scholarship. The students and their families have bought into this vision. Together we form a friendly and dedicated community.

Moseley School and Sixth Form is a large comprehensive secondary school with a thriving sixth form. Moseley School first opened its doors in 1923. We value our long history whilst being excited about our future. There are 1300 students, 150 teaching and support staff, excellent facilities housed in a grade two listed building, a modern building which opened in 2012 and a recently completed sports complex and extensive grounds. Staff enjoy subsidised healthcare options and access to our on-site gym.

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