Subject Leader of Maths
Bishop Heber High School, Malpas, Cheshire, SY14 8JD20 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
20 April 2026 at 9am
Date listed
31 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
TLR 1c £12,015
What skills and experience we're looking for
We require, from 1st September 2026, a motivated and inspirational Subject Leader of Maths to join this lively and outstanding 11-18 Foundation School. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented Maths teacher with energy, leadership and management experience to lead this key area. The successful candidate will lead a hardworking, collaborative and high achieving team. We expect that you will be able to teach Maths across the KS3 and KS4 ability range. The ability to teach Maths to A-level and or Advanced A-level is desirable.
The successful candidate will:
- be an outstanding teacher with recent successful teaching experience at KS3 and KS4, preferably with experience at sixth form
- have a proven track record of excellent examination results
- have a clear vision to inspire colleagues, an ability to develop and evaluate the work of a team, and experience of raising achievement
- be able to inspire children and young people to develop enthusiasm for and confidence in Maths
- have a vision for a progressive KS3 curriculum that develops a breadth and depth of understanding and that is a springboard to success at GCSE into Sixth Form
Further details of the post and an Application Form are available on our website or from the Personnel Manager - Mrs J Clegg via email at jclegg@heber.org.uk
Closing date for applications: Monday, 20th April 2026 at 9 a.m.
We are totally committed to safeguarding the welfare of young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. If successful, you will be expected to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
“Respect, Opportunity and Achievement”
What the school offers its staff
Bishop Heber High School (the ‘Heber’) has 1,300 students, including 250 in the Sixth Form, and serves three villages and surrounding hamlets in this beautiful area of south-west Cheshire. The School is located a 20-minute car journey from Nantwich, Wrexham and Chester. It has easy access to the Wirral as well as North Shropshire. The School enjoys an excellent reputation in the locality and a large number of families choose Bishop Heber from outside the catchment area. In fact, there are over 450 students on roll who come from other parts of Cheshire, Shropshire and North Wales. In 2015, the School underwent a £5 million redevelopment of the site and there are strong community links through the School’s Library and sports facilities, including a new Community Fitness Suite, Astroturf pitch and resurfaced Netball courts.
We are a Foundation School and formerly an International Specialist Languages College which underpins an exciting international dimension both in the School and through its curriculum.
In the main findings of the most recent Ofsted Inspection Report (November 2022), stated that:
“At Bishop Heber High School, pupils and students in the sixth form are proud to belong to the school. There is a strong sense of community. Pupils and students are welcoming and supportive of each other, living out the mantra that states all will be happy at Heber. Leaders and teachers have high expectations for all pupils and students to succeed, both academically and personally.”
The school’s impressive results were reflected in Ofsted’s observations that: Teachers have strong subject knowledge. They use their expertise to deliver the curriculum well... Pupils and students achieve well.
OUR VISION AND ETHOS: Our vision is a School in which Respect, Opportunity and Achievement can flourish. We recognise the differences, values and beliefs of each individual yet acknowledge our responsibility to treat everyone with respect and courtesy, so we all feel happy and safe in our School. Bishop Heber forms the heart of the wider community, providing all of its members with a central resource to enhance the quality of opportunity; a world-renowned, international, innovative place to learn and grow into active global citizens. Bishop Heber enjoys a positive, well-ordered and stimulating environment. We promote and celebrate achievement in academic study, sport, performance, creative art and community work. Bishop Heber provides high-quality and exciting teaching with support and challenge appropriate to the needs of every individual, to encouraging learning as a lifelong activity.
THE SCHOOL MOTTO IS: Pret d’accomplir – Ready to Accomplish
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)Additional documents
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About Bishop Heber High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1282 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bishop Heber High School website
- Email address
- jclegg@heber.org.uk
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