Job start date: 2 September 2024
Hours per week: Full time
Hodge Hill Girls School
Bromford Road
Birmingham
B36 8EY
Telephone number: 0121 464 3094
Contact email: HR@hodgehgs.bham.sch.uk
Contract type: Permanent
*This role is not suitable for ECT’s*
We are seeking to appoint a passionate and enthusiastic Faculty Leader of Science. You will have the drive and skills to raise standards and encourage pupils to develop a love of learning in Science. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious leader ready to take the next step in their career. Our success can be credited to our committed and dedicated staff who strive for excellence and promote high aspirations throughout the school. If you believe you have the enthusiasm and ability to contribute to our vibrant school community, we look forward to hearing from you.
The successful candidate will:
* have recent and relevant professional development
* have excellent leadership, organisational and management skills
* demonstrate experience of building success and managing/implementing change
* show commitment to a culture of continuous improvement that promotes excellence for staff and pupils alike and builds on our current Ofsted rating
In return, we can offer you:
* a caring and happy community that always puts our young people first
* a supportive environment that takes an active interest in your professional development and personal wellbeing
* a highly supportive Senior Leadership Team
* access to a wide range of CPD courses
* use of a school laptop
* access to the teachers’ pension scheme
* 24 hours access to the Employee Assistance Programme
* a strong and supportive Governing Body
* classrooms equipped with projection and interactive capabilities
* a well-equipped staffroom
* free on-site car parking
Found in the heart of the Hodge Hill community, we are a small secondary girl’s school with strong community values. We know and care for every pupil as an individual. We strive to meet the needs of each member of our school community, celebrating diversity and always striving for equality in our school family and the wider world.
Our ethos encourages mutual respect and support to enable every pupil to make the greatest personal, social, and academic progress during their time with us, preparing them for successful careers and fulfilling lives. A relentless drive for the best academic progress for each individual pupil, sits comfortably alongside the wider curriculum where values education embraces citizenship, pupil voice, charity, and community work.
Here at Hodge Hill Girls' School, we genuinely value and strive to enhance working partnerships with our families, feeder schools and our local community. This partnership is essential in raising standards and achievement, every member of our family has a role to play in raising the aspirations of all our pupils to ensure we really are "Educating Tomorrow's Women Today".
You can download an applicant pack, job description and person specificationandApply Online
Please note that offline application forms will not be considered - please submit an online application via the link above.
We do not accept CVs; applications will only be accepted with a completed application form.
We encourage visits from prospective candidates to meet members of our school community and experience our school at first hand. If you would like to arrange a visit please contact HR Assistant Mrs N Panton via email:HR@hodgehgs.bham.sch.uk
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
BCC is a Living Wage employer.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means 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.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
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