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Head of Religious Studies
| Posting date: | 25 March 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 April 2025 |
| Location: | Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX17 2QR |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ab17e259-af73-406f-a84d-384af60863eb |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Governors are looking for an outstanding practitioner with a proven track record of high student achievement and excellent leadership skills to lead a committed religious studies team in the next stage of development. As our new Head of RS you will have the skills and ambition to make a significant impact on the quality of teaching and learning within the department and you will achieve this by being a team player, with strong interpersonal skills allied to high expectations and ambition.
The successful candidate will be:
• Committed to securing positive outcomes for all students.
• Able to ensure that results remain strong and are in line with or better than the other subjects.
• Well qualified and highly motivated.
• Leading a fully staffed, hard-working department to the next stage of its development.
• Able to demonstrate high professional standards and have a proven track record of success at key stages 3 and 4 and in post 16 learning.
What the school offers its staff
We offer you:
• A supportive, close-knit, ambitious school with excellent facilities.
• An environment where students have excellent attitudes to learning.
• Students who, through wide and diverse academic, pastoral and extra-curricular opportunities, grow as individuals and contribute enthusiastically to the school community.
• A comprehensive and personalised professional development programme to support your individual career goals.
Following our graded inspection under Section 5 of the Education Act 2005 on 27 and 28 September 2022, we were delighted and proud to have been judged good overall and outstanding for our sixth form. Ofsted states: “Leaders have high expectations for every pupil’s behaviour and attainment. Pupils and students are polite and helpful”.
Chenderit is an oversubscribed and very successful school located a few miles from Banbury and with easy access to the M40.
Early applications are encouraged as we will review applications as we receive them: applicantsmay be contacted before the closing date
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school operates a rigorous recruitment process to ensure candidates’ suitability to work with children. All posts in school are subject to disclosure of criminal records. An online search will be completed for shortlisted candidates.
The Governors are looking for an outstanding practitioner with a proven track record of high student achievement and excellent leadership skills to lead a committed religious studies team in the next stage of development. As our new Head of RS you will have the skills and ambition to make a significant impact on the quality of teaching and learning within the department and you will achieve this by being a team player, with strong interpersonal skills allied to high expectations and ambition.
The successful candidate will be:
• Committed to securing positive outcomes for all students.
• Able to ensure that results remain strong and are in line with or better than the other subjects.
• Well qualified and highly motivated.
• Leading a fully staffed, hard-working department to the next stage of its development.
• Able to demonstrate high professional standards and have a proven track record of success at key stages 3 and 4 and in post 16 learning.
What the school offers its staff
We offer you:
• A supportive, close-knit, ambitious school with excellent facilities.
• An environment where students have excellent attitudes to learning.
• Students who, through wide and diverse academic, pastoral and extra-curricular opportunities, grow as individuals and contribute enthusiastically to the school community.
• A comprehensive and personalised professional development programme to support your individual career goals.
Following our graded inspection under Section 5 of the Education Act 2005 on 27 and 28 September 2022, we were delighted and proud to have been judged good overall and outstanding for our sixth form. Ofsted states: “Leaders have high expectations for every pupil’s behaviour and attainment. Pupils and students are polite and helpful”.
Chenderit is an oversubscribed and very successful school located a few miles from Banbury and with easy access to the M40.
Early applications are encouraged as we will review applications as we receive them: applicantsmay be contacted before the closing date
Commitment to safeguarding
Our school operates a rigorous recruitment process to ensure candidates’ suitability to work with children. All posts in school are subject to disclosure of criminal records. An online search will be completed for shortlisted candidates.