Second in Science

Hope Academy, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, WA12 0AQ

2 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  22 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £53,602 - £59,167

Second in Science job summary

To lead and promote the academy ethos, vision and mission within the department. To lead, facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides students with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential. To implement and deliver an appropriately broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum for students. To lead on and make a positive contribution to the spiritual, moral social and cultural development of students within the department.

All staff at Hope Academy should actively follow and promote the mission, policies and standards of the academy which require:

▪ Supporting the ethos of the academy which enables students to experience, develop and practise Christian values and living.

▪ Be fully committed to raising standards and improving the life chances of all students.

▪ Create a culture which celebrates the positive and encourages all kinds of achievement.

▪ Ensure good communication and working partnership with others.

▪ Support a caring and compassionate community, through being aware and responding to the needs of others.

▪ Promote a happy, stimulating and ordered environment within which children can grow, develop and thrive according to the needs of others.

▪ Be committed to high standards of professional co-operation and integrity.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo safeguarding checks appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Trust is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. 

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About Hope Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England/Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1349 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hope Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hope-academy

Hope Academy is a £33 million joint faith Academy which opened in September 2011. We are currently on a journey to become an ‘outstanding Academy’. Staff and students are driven by our core values of Respect, Courage and Ambition

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