Teacher of Science
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 9HZDeadline is tomorrow
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
6 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
3 February 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subjects
- Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MRP1-UPS3
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will teach predominantly KS3 and KS4. There may also be the opportunity to teach a science at KS5. Our team works collaboratively in the planning and development of our curriculum which means that the successful candidate will work in a team sharing ideas and planning an area of the curriculum. This has been really powerful in reducing our workload within the department.
What the school offers its staff
We offer you:
- A vibrant school with outstanding facilities.
- A welcoming staff culture, where we focus on supporting each other to grow and develop as teachers and aspiring leaders.
- An environment where pupils have an excellent attitude to learning where they can grow academically and personally. Pupils’ behaviour and safety was judged by Ofsted as ‘Outstanding’.
- Pupils who, through the wide and diverse academic and extra-curricular opportunities they are offered, grow as individuals and happily contribute to the school community.
- Regular opportunities for staff to collaborate and share best practice.
- Opportunities to regularly develop your own professional practice through in-house CPD.
Further details about the role
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a vibrant, thriving and leading school in the local area. (1333 on roll with a Sixth Form of 173) and our long history and excellent community links provide our students with exceptional opportunities.
As a school, we are immensely proud of our September 2021 Ofsted report which describes our school as ‘Good’ with many ‘Outstanding’ features. Inspectors said that “Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a learning community where pupils have great respect for each other. Teachers support pupils to become highly articulate young people who can express their views well on a wide range of issues.” They also commented that “Pupils benefit from studying a wide range of subjects. Leaders have put in place an ambitious curriculum. Leaders and teachers have high expectations of all pupils.” Similarly, our November 2023 CSI report states how “Students, staff and parents speak very highly of the “sense of family” that is inherent in this school.”
We are seeking to appoint an innovative, enthusiastic and ambitious Teacher of Science. We require someone who is totally passionate about science and teaching. Our success as a school is known to be rapidly improving and in particular our science department is a proud asset of our strong and cohesive school community. Over recent years, our energetic science team have nurtured our students into highly studious and enthusiastic scientists. We have very large uptake for GCSE Separate Sciences and even more so in our A-level and BTEC Science programmes. We have a reputation for success in the local area and, for several years now, have proudly achieved and maintained positive value-added scores and positive progress 8 figures at both KS4 and 5. As well as our excellent academic performance in external examinations, we are also immensely proud of the destinations that our students go on to post-KS5. Examples of just some of the courses many of our most recent students have gone onto study are: · Natural Sciences at Cambridge University · Natural Sciences at University of Durham · Aerospace Engineering at University of Manchester · Engineering at University of Liverpool · Electrical Engineering at University of Liverpool · Medicine at Cambridge University, University of Liverpool, University of Glasgow, University of Manchester · Genetics at University of Liverpool · Dentistry at University of Manchester, University of Liverpool · Chemistry at University of Liverpool · Pharmacy at University of Belfast, University of Liverpool As well as offering a comprehensive curriculum of GCSE’s and A-levels in Biology, Chemistry and Physics, we also offer BTEC Applied General Science and BTEC Applied Human Biology. We also offer a full programme of extra-curricular support including peer-peer tuition, outreach work with various universities, scholar’s programmes with Imperial College London and The Brilliant Club and much more. These all contribute to our development of the well-rounded and academically successful scientists that we produce and who proudly graduate from our sixth form college each year. The successful candidate will teach predominantly KS3 and KS4. There may also be the opportunity to teach a science at KS5. Our team works collaboratively in the planning and development of our curriculum which means that the successful candidate will work in a team sharing ideas and planning an area of the curriculum. This has been really powerful in reducing our workload within the department.
This role is full-time and for twelve months (in the first instance). If this advert incorporates your strengths and interests and you wish to be part of our extremely successful and constantly evolving team, then please see the job description, person specifications and application forms available on the school website at www.cardinal-heenan.org.uk .
Email application forms and covering letters to Lynn Lewington (l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk) by 12noon, Thursday, 6th February 2025, with interview to take place in the week commencing Monday, 10th February 2025.
Job description, person specification, application form, child protection policy, code of conduct – Safer working practice guidance,Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 form, consent to obtain reference form, Disqualification Policy, model reasonable adjustments statement is available on the school website www.cardinal-heenan.org.uk
Applicants from overseas outside the EEA should obtain an overseas criminal check before applying for a visit as the post is in an education sector.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment to keeping children safe. Any offer of employment will be subject to statutory pre-employment checks, including satisfactory references and Enhanced DBS and Barred-List checks. This post is exempt from the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (as amended in 2013 & 2020) and shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose any relevant criminal history prior to interview.
The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school is committed to safeguarding children and promoting children’s welfare. This post is subject to all the relevant pre-employment checks set out in “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, including an enhanced DBS certificate with a barred-list check, together with an additional check as part of the shortlisting process, will be to carry out an online search (including social media).
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to admin@cardinal-heenan.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1331 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0151 235 1430
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a thriving and vibrant Specialist Sports College and a leading school in the local area.
Arranging a visit to Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk.
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