Head of Science

Location: Filey School

Contract: Permanent

Hours/working pattern: Full time

Salary/hourly rate: L1-L6

Closing Date: Monday 3^rd February 2025 at 09:00am

Interview Date: Shortly after the closing date

Start Date: Easter 2025 or sooner

Our Opportunity

We are seeking to appoint an ambitious, talented, and inspiring classroom practitioner to be the Head of the Science Faculty, teaching Science across all ability groups in KS3 and KS4. 

The successful candidate will have excellent subject knowledge, proven leadership skills and the ability to inspire and motivate our ambitious and hardworking staff and pupils. 

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

·         Confidence, enthusiasm, and a passion for learning.

• Leading the improvement of science education across the school, by planning the delivery of a broad and ambitious science curriculum.
• Understanding and applying effective classroom management. 

• A relevant teaching qualification
• Understanding and applying a range of teaching strategies.  
• Support, Lead and motivate the Science department staff and teachers, to ensure the provision is effective and adjustments are made as necessary to help them meet their personal and professional targets. 
• Positively targeting and supporting individual learning needs. 
• To implement the aims and objectives of the school/trust and to understand and work within school/ trust policies to achieve these aims and objectives.

Filey Secondary School

Filey School is an 11-16 mixed community school serving the coastal town of Filey and its surrounding villages. We have a proud heritage in our local community and are embarking on a period of transformation and improvement. We aim for every member of our school community to develop a love of learning and enable them to reach the highest outcomes that they can. We are committed to ensuring our students are happy, safe and have clear direction and support. We joined Coast and Vale Learning Trust in June 2022 and benefit from the collaborative and supportive environment of the Trust while returning to our identity as Filey School.

Our Trust 

Coast and Vale Learning Trust is a growing family of schools located on the beautiful Yorkshire Coast. The Trust was founded by Scalby Secondary School but has grown over the last few years to include Newby and Scalby Primary School, Friarage Primary School and the Scarborough University Technical College (SUTC) in Scarborough, Lady Lumley’s Secondary School in Pickering and Filey School. Our ambition is to continue to welcome new schools into our Trust where we can add capacity, resources, improvement and make sure all our young people have access to the very best education.

The aim of the trust is to serve all the education community along the North Yorkshire Coast and down the Vale of Pickering. We are committed to supporting all schools in becoming great schools, whether they are part of Coast and Vale Learning Trust or not. The learners of our community deserve the best education regardless of their background or location.

Choosing where to work and who to work for is one of the vitally important decisions in life.  In choosing to work for Coast and Vale Learning Trust you would be joining a team of colleagues dedicated to transforming the lives of 3000 children and young people.  

We have a simple vision in wanting our schools to be places ‘where children and staff thrive’. Coast and Vale Learning Trust will work tirelessly to make this a reality.

Working for Us 

As well as being committed to your ongoing development and training we also offer a range of employee benefits including a competitive salary, access to a government pension scheme, an employee assistance programme as well as a variety of retail discounts.  

Application Process

For further information or to arrange a visit to the school please contact Amanda Cowling, PA to SLT by email at a.cowling@fi.coastandvale.academy or call (01723) 512354.

We do not accept CVs.

Closing date for receipt of applications: Monday 3^rd February 2025 at 09:00am

Interviews will be held shortly after.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy should we receive an overwhelming response. 

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people we work with and expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including an enhanced DBS check.  We have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our Schools.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief.  We want to recruit the right people for the Trust, from the widest possible backgrounds, to make the most of each individual’s different knowledge and experience.

Your privacy is important to us.  By submitting your personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Trust’s “Privacy Notice Recruitment” which can be found on our website.