Head of Faculty

This is an opportunity to join a school where staff and students love learning and working together. We are seeking to appoint a Head of Faculty for Science, who has the passion and vision to inspire students and lead our highly motivated team of specialist science teachers.

Come and join us, helping to shape the future of this successful and happy school community. Our students are intelligent, fun, curious, and well-motivated. Behaviour is excellent. Our leadership team endeavours to focus on holistic wellbeing as a priority, inspiring a culture of inclusiveness, emotional intelligence and safety, for both staff and students. We want our staff to feel valued, supported and challenged, to be creative and ambitious in their contribution to our learning community. Our line management and appraisal processes are highly supportive and based on professional trust - we really value our staff.

Science is a strong faculty with a very good track record of examination success and a good number of students opting for science at A-Level. However, we are open to new ideas that inspire and help our students to reach their potential, and to enjoy the subject as much as possible. You must be able to teach either Biology or Chemistry to A-Level.

We can boast wonderful students with a thirst for learning and a desire to embrace the wider opportunities available to them at school. We achieve exceptional academic results each year. This year we ranked 7th in The Times' best secondary and grammar schools in the southeast. Our staff are collaborative and support each other to be their best; it is difficult to say whether the best thing about working here is the students or the staff

The successful candidate will:

be a graduate with qualified teacher status;have held a middle leadership or leadership role and supported whole school improvement;combine resilience and determination with an ability to inspire, innovate and motivate colleagues and students;have knowledge of the powerful impact of data on informing and improving progress;have the ability to teach at a 'good' or better level consistently. Why work with us at Beaconsfield High School?We are a genuinely happy learning community;Our students are engaged, self-motivated, and enjoy their lessons;The school is located in beautiful Beaconsfield Old Town, within The Chilterns (designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty);We benefit from London Fringe Allowance and the Teachers' Pension Scheme;We have a team of specialist and committed teachers and a highly effective SEND team; We are a welcoming and supportive staff team who enjoy social occasions together like cakes at break time and end of year social events;Health Assured employee assistance programme;We are never complacent, and committed to continually improving; We are committed to the induction and professional development of all staff, and have a genuinely developmental Professional Development Process (appraisal).To apply, please complete the application form. Your covering letter/support of application statement should explain, in no more than two A4 sides, how your experience to date has prepared you for this role.

Beaconsfield High School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all of its students and staff. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post, and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified teachers regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.

Please note that we may contact candidates for interview before the closing date, so early applications are advisable. For additional information, please contact Laura Robinson via

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