Subject Leader: Geography
| Posting date: | 29 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 February 2026 |
| Location: | Leicester, Leicestershire, LE4 7AN |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3d5d7c31-d614-4691-852f-5cf58b058ca7 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Subject Leader: Geography
Full Time: The successful candidate will lead the Geography team and teach throughout the age range 11-16.
Permanent
Start Date: August 2026
Job ref: SLGE
Salary: MPS/UPS (£32,916– £51,047 per annum) plus TLR 2B
We are looking to appoint subject experts and enthusiasts to our high achieving team who want to work in a school where:
• excellent CPD opportunities are provided through our professional learning Mondays, weekly learning sessions and CPD Library.
• geography is valued by students and families;
• results in Geography are consistently above national average.
• you will be part of a strong, successful and supportive team.
• there is a strong academic ethos and high expectations of students.
• behaviour management is centralised and teachers are enabled to flourish.
• Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for more information.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure check.
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.
How to apply:
If you are interested in this post, please complete the application form online.
A letter detailing why you are a suitable candidate for the position should accompany your completed application form.
Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:
• Applicant Pack
• Job Description
• Application and Recruitment Process document
Should you have any queries regarding your application please contact school.
Closing date: Thursday 12th February 2026 at midday
Interview date: 23rd February 2026
Rushey Mead Academy is committed to:
• safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
• equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, prevention of discrimination in its many forms
NO AGENCIES OR CV’s PLEASE
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive academy environment.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high achieving department within a highly successful school.
We look to improve, not because we are not good enough but because we can always do better
Rushey Mead Academy is well placed to offer a comprehensive support package to ECTs from all routes into teaching, including PGCE, SCITT, Schools Direct and Teach First. Both new and established teachers will be supported and encouraged to develop their practice by engaging in the numerous opportunities to collaborate and share ideas with colleagues within our Professional Learning programme.
Rushey Mead Academy is part of The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) which is a growing partnership of primary and secondary schools situated in the East Midlands. The Trust draws its educational excellence from the established track record of the high-quality education provision of Rushey Mead Academy, the Trust's convertor academy.
TMET provides its academies access to a world-class education network and staff with an employer providing high quality professional development. We are committed to ensuring each academy enables every pupil to achieve the very best. We believe that together we make a positive difference.
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.
Subject Leader: Geography
Full Time: The successful candidate will lead the Geography team and teach throughout the age range 11-16.
Permanent
Start Date: August 2026
Job ref: SLGE
Salary: MPS/UPS (£32,916– £51,047 per annum) plus TLR 2B
We are looking to appoint subject experts and enthusiasts to our high achieving team who want to work in a school where:
• excellent CPD opportunities are provided through our professional learning Mondays, weekly learning sessions and CPD Library.
• geography is valued by students and families;
• results in Geography are consistently above national average.
• you will be part of a strong, successful and supportive team.
• there is a strong academic ethos and high expectations of students.
• behaviour management is centralised and teachers are enabled to flourish.
• Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for more information.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure check.
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.
How to apply:
If you are interested in this post, please complete the application form online.
A letter detailing why you are a suitable candidate for the position should accompany your completed application form.
Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:
• Applicant Pack
• Job Description
• Application and Recruitment Process document
Should you have any queries regarding your application please contact school.
Closing date: Thursday 12th February 2026 at midday
Interview date: 23rd February 2026
Rushey Mead Academy is committed to:
• safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
• equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, prevention of discrimination in its many forms
NO AGENCIES OR CV’s PLEASE
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive academy environment.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a high achieving department within a highly successful school.
We look to improve, not because we are not good enough but because we can always do better
Rushey Mead Academy is well placed to offer a comprehensive support package to ECTs from all routes into teaching, including PGCE, SCITT, Schools Direct and Teach First. Both new and established teachers will be supported and encouraged to develop their practice by engaging in the numerous opportunities to collaborate and share ideas with colleagues within our Professional Learning programme.
Rushey Mead Academy is part of The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) which is a growing partnership of primary and secondary schools situated in the East Midlands. The Trust draws its educational excellence from the established track record of the high-quality education provision of Rushey Mead Academy, the Trust's convertor academy.
TMET provides its academies access to a world-class education network and staff with an employer providing high quality professional development. We are committed to ensuring each academy enables every pupil to achieve the very best. We believe that together we make a positive difference.
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.