Progress Leader: History

Hilbre High School, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 6EQ

20 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  11 March 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Head of department or curriculum
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (Actual) + TLR2c £8610

Progress Leader: History job summary

We are looking for a highly motivated and creative individual with a passion for History; you will possess the ability to share this passion with our diverse and inclusive student body. You will be an outstanding, innovative and highly skilled practitioner who is committed to excellence and high student achievement, enabling students of all abilities to reach their maximum potential.

The successful candidate will be a team player who encourages collaboration within the department and the wider school. You will be a teacher with a focus on your own professional development and a determination to become the best teacher and leader you can be.

In our most recent Ofsted inspection, [October 2021], we maintained our status as a ‘good’ school. We offer a friendly, supportive working environment, which values talented, committed staff and offers excellent professional development opportunities. We are highly committed to managing teacher workload and offer a fortnightly home-based PPA session to all teaching staff.

Hilbre High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS Disclosure.

It is preferable that your application would be completed, along with the accompliment of a Personal Statement for this specific role, to the Headteacher, Mr Barlow via MyNewTerm https://mynewterm.com/home. Alternatively, all details are available to download from the school website www.hilbre.wirral.sch.uk. An application form and letter of application must be completed for eligibility to the post and are returnable to the Headteacher either by post or by email to schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk. All electronic applications will be acknowledged (no agencies please).

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding requirements:

Hilbre High School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a child barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures. It is an offence to apply for this role if candidates are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

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 Hilbre High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1174 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hilbre High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hilbre-high-school

Hilbre is a hard-working, lively academy where we believe that learning is an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all our students. We pride ourselves in recognising the varied and individual needs of our students and the broad, balanced education we provide, both in and outside the classroom, ensures our students can leave school with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to contribute confidently in today’s ever changing world.

At Hilbre High School Humanities College, you will find an 11-18 academy with just over one thousand students on roll. We are an academy which genuinely welcomes people into a partnership with a shared aim; to achieve the most we possibly can, both academically and socially for our students. We believe in success, progress, challenge and the enjoyment of learning and we constantly strive to ensure that all students achieve their very best.

Indeed, our pledge is to ensure that every student, whatever their starting point, makes rapid and sustained progress through effective, high quality teaching, in order to achieve the best outcomes within a caring and supportive environment. Our academy has the advantage of being coeducational. This enables us to deliver the full range of curriculum opportunities within a more natural and rounded environment for the social development of our students.

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