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Head of Science
| Posting date: | 28 March 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2025 |
| Location: | Poole, Dorset, BH15 4BQ |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 2a0cd061-a0c6-4f31-a75c-ee4d455cc5a4 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a Head of Science to lead an established team. The right candidate will combine leadership with excellent classroom practices and have the passion and commitment to ensure the continuous improvement of students and staff within the Science department. As the Head of Science, you will have access to a range of professional development tools for you and your team. This role would suit a candidate with ambitions to become a future senior leader.
What the school offers its staff
The Cornerstone Academy is part of United Learning, a large and growing group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. Schools within United Learning work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. By collecting expertise and combining resources; we help to make the tough job of teaching a little easier. With a shared curriculum and lesson plans from around the group available to all, our teachers have strong foundations to lead the engaging, rounded education our children deserve. Our intranet site, United Hub, is just one example of how we share this resource and communicate across sites, helping to simplify processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. We reward our staff: with wide career opportunities – between Primary and Secondary, Academy and Independent – better pay, benefits, and ultimately the satisfaction of helping every child at each of our schools to succeed and reach their full potential.
We are focused on improving our drive to encourage every student to strive to achieve the very best they can be.
If you share our ambition and are an outstanding classroom practitioner, it’s an exciting time to join the academy.
You will have the opportunity to work with a staff team that is supportive, friendly and dedicated to providing the best for our students. Alongside this, it is projected that Cornerstone will continue to see a significant increase in student numbers, leading to further opportunities for all.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We are seeking a Head of Science to lead an established team. The right candidate will combine leadership with excellent classroom practices and have the passion and commitment to ensure the continuous improvement of students and staff within the Science department. As the Head of Science, you will have access to a range of professional development tools for you and your team. This role would suit a candidate with ambitions to become a future senior leader.
What the school offers its staff
The Cornerstone Academy is part of United Learning, a large and growing group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England. Schools within United Learning work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. By collecting expertise and combining resources; we help to make the tough job of teaching a little easier. With a shared curriculum and lesson plans from around the group available to all, our teachers have strong foundations to lead the engaging, rounded education our children deserve. Our intranet site, United Hub, is just one example of how we share this resource and communicate across sites, helping to simplify processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. We reward our staff: with wide career opportunities – between Primary and Secondary, Academy and Independent – better pay, benefits, and ultimately the satisfaction of helping every child at each of our schools to succeed and reach their full potential.
We are focused on improving our drive to encourage every student to strive to achieve the very best they can be.
If you share our ambition and are an outstanding classroom practitioner, it’s an exciting time to join the academy.
You will have the opportunity to work with a staff team that is supportive, friendly and dedicated to providing the best for our students. Alongside this, it is projected that Cornerstone will continue to see a significant increase in student numbers, leading to further opportunities for all.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.