Head of Science

**Salary**:
TMS/UPS

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
Sept 2025

31 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**Salary: TMS/UPS**

**TLR 1.2 £12,041**

**Hours: Fulltime Permanent**

**Required for September 2025**

Shireland CBSO Academy is part of the Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust providing staff with opportunities to progress both within the school, and across the Trust.

Shireland CBSO Academy is an exciting new school which opened to Year 7 in September 2023 and is the first state school in the country to have a partnership with a professional orchestra. Based in Providence Place, West Bromwich, the Academy works in partnership with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) and serves all of Sandwell and the wider West Midlands. The Academy is for all students who have a passion or talent for music - they do not necessarily need to already play an instrument.
- Have the ability to teach Science and motivate students across all ability ranges and key stages
- Be an outstanding classroom practitioner with high expectations
- Have the ability to lead and motivate staff to deliver to the highest standards
- Committed to raising standards for all

In return we will offer:

- Opportunities across our MAT to enhance skills and experience across all Key Stages
- Excellent career and professional development opportunities
- A focus on staff wellbeing
- An ICT rich environment which allows staff to be innovative in harnessing technology for learning
- State of the art facilities
- Supportive working environment and team ethos

We pride ourselves on being an employer where all staff can thrive. We believe that supporting our staff both personally and professionally allows them to give their very best to our students. Our aim is to foster a working culture that recognises and reflects the importance of good mental health and wellbeing and provides effective support when colleagues need it.

**_ Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects its entire staff to share this commitment. All post-holders will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), including a Children’s Barred List check for posts carrying out a regulated activity._**

Closing date: 31st March 2025

Interviews: w/c 7th April 2025

**Come and meet us and find out more about the school and the Trust at our secondary recruitment event, Wednesday 29th January 2025 5.00-7.30pm, West Bromwich Collegiate Academy, Kelvin Way, West Bromwich, B70 7LE**

To arrange a visit to the school please contact Parveen Chumber-Raju

Please note we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date.

**About**Shireland CBSO Academy**:
**Shireland CBSO Academy**
- Providence Place, West Bromwich
- B70 8SZ
- United Kingdom

+44 121 818 4620

The Shireland CBSO Academy is the result of an exciting partnership between
- Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust

and the
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

(CBSO). Occupying a prominent location in West Bromwich, Sandwell, the academy will deliver an outstanding education for its students built on a foundation of academic and musical excellence.

This partnership will ensure that young people from diverse backgrounds across the West Midlands have a real and genuine opportunity to achieve musically at an elite and national level. In addition, the school will enable all students to benefit from the emotional, social, physical and academic benefits that active participation in music has been demonstrated to bring.

Every student at the academy will have the opportunity to learn an instrument and be part of a group capable of performing. This will require a commitment to frequent practice and extra-curricular activities.