Head of Business Studies

3 weeks ago


Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom Thurstable School Full time

TLR 2a £3013

Part Time

Thurstable School is looking to appoint an outstanding Business Studies Teacher to lead our Business department from September 2024.

This is an excellent opportunity for an aspiring middle leader who is passionate about developing their leadership skills in a high trust and high challenge professional environment. This post is part-time 3 days for Business Studies, full time can be considered if you offer a 2nd subject. Please state what your 2nd subject is in your application form

The successful candidate will already be an excellent Teacher of Business and will be eager to assist in developing the strategic vision of the Business department. Your ability to motivate learners and your potential to lead colleagues, together with a determination to deliver outstanding outcomes for your students, will be your defining characteristics.

Why join us?

● We are committed that classrooms should be disruption free so that every minute counts and are adopting a centralised approach to behaviour centred on a warm/strict philosophy and shared routines across the school.

● We think you, the teacher, is the expert. We promote the importance of teacher led lessons based on brilliant subject knowledge, great explanations and skilful questioning.

● Our commitment to genuine development. Our evidence based model of teaching is based on the work of Rosenshine and Lemov, and from September all teaching staff (including the Headteacher) will receive fortnightly one-to-one coaching so can all make continual improvements in our teaching.

● We are committed to staff well-being and adopting sensible approaches to workload. We recognise the efforts and achievements of all our staff on a weekly basis and never take anyone's work for granted.

● We are on a journey of which you can be a driving part. Our school improvement groups, led by non-SLT members, are crucial to driving change in the school.

We believe this is an exciting time to join the school and help our students reach their undoubted full potential. If you can dream big, work hard and also have a sense of fun, and we genuinely believe that you will really enjoy working at Thurstable.

Please apply online.

We welcome visits or conversations with prospective applicants. To arrange a tour or a confidential phone call, please contact us directly.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and all posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.



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