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Teacher of Business and Economics – 0.5 FTE but may increase to 0.75FTE

Heckmondwike Grammar School, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 0AH

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• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  31 March 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subjects: Business studies, Economics
• Working pattern: Part time: 0.5FTE wef from 1 September 2025, however potential to in-crease to 0.75FTE subject to Sixth Form enrolment. We are open to explore and con-sider other combinations of this staffing as part of the application process to recruit the strongest candidates. Please indicate on your application form if your preference is for 0.5 or 0.75FTE.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Commensurate with skills and experience

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you an innovative, enthusiastic and passionate Teacher of Business and Economics?

Then this will be the job for you.

The department is committed to developing its curriculum and expanding students’ experiences, making both a passion for the subject(s) and an interest in leading extracurricular activities highly desirable traits in prospective colleagues.

Consideration will be given to both experienced teachers and ECT’s who wish to develop their teaching expertise in an outstanding school.

For the Business and Economics department at Heckmondwike, commitment, a positive attitude, ideas, potential and enthusiasm are important qualities.

What Will You Bring To The Role?

• Suitably qualified – degree in relevant discipline plus teaching qualification
• Up-to-date knowledge of curriculum related issues 11-19
• Skilled classroom practitioner with the ability to inspire and motivate students in KS4 to KS5.
• ICT skills and an understanding of the potential for use of ICT for teaching and learning
• Ability to contribute to the wider school life
• Able and confident to contribute to development of schemes of work and teaching and learning materials
• Energy and enthusiasm.
• Suitability to work with children

Protection of children:

Disclosure of criminal background of those with access to children.

All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered prior to the date of the interview. You may be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed.

What the school offers its staff

In return we can offer:

• eager and committed students who are keen to learn and progress
• a creative and supportive team, who are driven to support and challenge our students
• well-equipped specialist classrooms
• a learning-centred school where the best possible practice is the priority
• a comprehensive CPD programme and opportunities to develop as a teacher and as a leader
• a vibrant, supportive community of like-minded professionals

Further details about the role

The Business and Economics department has four experienced specialist teachers. The teachers are passionate about Business and Economics and believe that learning should be engaging and fun. Our lessons are challenging and varied, with high standards of teaching and learning, and we support each other, sharing ideas and resources.

The department has four well-equipped modern classrooms and a modern staff office. We make good use of practical work and the school’s excellent ICT resources to support imaginative and innovative teaching.

Our Business and Economics department is one of the most popular and successful in the school, with high demand at both GCSE and A level. Public exam results continue to improve, reflecting the hard work and commitment of our dedicated team. Business is offered as an option at GCSE, and both Business and Economics are available at A level.

The number of students choosing to study these subjects is strong, and our students also benefit

from a range of extracurricular activities, including trips to London and New York.

Recent results include 79% of GCSE Business students achieving grades 9-7, with 48% reaching 9-8. In A level, 67% of Business students and 70% of Economics students achieved A*-B grades.

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding Statement:

Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its
students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in the Safeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Teacher of Business and Economics Candidate Information Pack.pdf - 562 KB (opens in new tab)

About Heckmondwike Grammar School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1474 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Heckmondwike Grammar School website
• Email address: recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heckmondwike-grammar-school-heckmondwike

We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School Of The Year”, “Soaring 57 places in the UK rankings to 77” out of approx 6000 secondary schools (state and independent) in the latest Sunday Times Parent Power Guide.

And for the second year running we are ranked No 2 in the North of England.

This is a fabulous accolade to the whole school community and just reward for years of hard work from staff, students and indeed parents.
The survey includes both GCSE and A level results and is nationally noted as a true measure of school performance using metrics of most interest to parents when selecting a school.

“Such accolades are very pleasing and we are delighted to be recognised, but they only come about because of the week in week out hard work from students and staff and I salute my colleagues and students, they are an exceptional team.” Mr Roberts, Headteacher.

Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go. Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.

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