Curriculum Leader of Maths - TLR negotiable for right candidate

Job Title                   

Full time-Curriculum Leader of Maths

Salary                       

Mainscale/UPS - plus TLR negotiable for the right candidate

Start                          

January 2025

Responsible to         

Deputy Headteacher   

I am delighted to offer the opportunity to join St Cecilia’s RC High School, a popular and oversubscribed school on the edge of the Ribble Valley. The position of Curriculum Leader of Maths has arisen due to the promotion of our current Curriculum Leader.

The Governors are seeking to appoint a suitably qualified Curriculum Leader who will continue to drive forward improvements in Maths. The successful candidate would lead a dedicated and supportive team of like-minded individuals who only want the best for the children they teach.

At St Cecilia’s, our vision is unified and shared. We are a caring Catholic school with high standards and expectations of all our pupils, rooted in the Gospel values.  We believe all our pupils have the potential to discover, develop and rejoice in their God given talents and abilities, whilst answering to their faith and actively responding to God’s call to work towards a common good. We promote forgiveness and encourage resilience, ensuring pupils persist in the face of setbacks when they occur.    

Our school is a happy and safe place where pupils thrive. Pupils are proud to be part of our community and the community are proud of St Cecilia’s. We provide a positive learning environment that enables pupils to learn and teachers to do their job well, through a robust and well implemented behaviour recovery system.   

Our curriculum promotes a broad range of knowledge and skills, allowing each child to discover and pursue their own interests and passions. It equips pupils with the skills and knowledge needed for them to understand, interpret, and flourish in the world in which they live. This goes beyond exam success. The curriculum is our progression model; instructing our pupils how they can be ‘better’ at each subject. 

We are restless and always looking to improve, but we are not driven by ‘fads’. Staff are supported to progress professionally through a comprehensive CPD programme that is founded in research. 

Teaching and Learning is the key focus for our school. Teachers work collaboratively to find creative solutions and share good practice. Our CPD is cohesive and is driven by need, not simply dictated from the top. If something is proven to work, then we will take the necessary time to embed it rather than shifting from one focus to the next. We provide a robust but low threat system for quality assuring T&L. This allows staff the freedom to try new things while not being afraid to fail.      

We promote and sustain intellectual curiosity, an enthusiasm for learning from others, for both staff and pupils. We are a great school that do ordinary things extraordinarily well. Honesty is key to our community; we will always admit where there are weaknesses, promote trust and phronesis at all levels. This is what drives us forward in our pursuit of sustained academic excellence and in the formation of our pupils. 

The successful candidate will be joining a thriving oversubscribed school in all years, which was judged ‘Good’ by Ofsted in October 2019. We are currently going through an expansion project to accommodate our recently increased PAN (pupil admission number) to 120 per year group.

The Governors, Headteacher and Senior Leaders are committed to your professional learning with a culture of research and reading at the heart of what we do, including staff well-being and workload. The successful candidate will be supported via a well-developed, bespoke professional learning package appropriate to their individual needs and aspirations. In addition, we offer a comprehensive well-being package including free counselling, financial and wellbeing coaching, menopause, and nurse support, 24/7 GP services, stress coaching and physiotherapy as well as our weekly well-being treats.  

If you want to work in a caring catholic community that has that special feel as soon as you enter the building, please take the time to visit the school. You will see for yourself how we are a supportive family that works tirelessly to improve the life chances of the children that are in our care.

The successful applicant will be:

• an excellent practitioner and leader
• be able to motivate, challenge and inspire pupils to succeed in Maths
• be committed to improving the outcomes for all pupils
• Will have high expectations of themselves and the pupils
• Will have excellent communication skills and the ability to develop and improve practice in themselves and others
• Must be passionate about the development and implementation of the Maths curriculum
• Will be up to date with relevant pedagogy, apply this to their teaching and promote it to others

Essential educational requirements

Qualified Teacher Status

Degree or equivalent

Deadline for application

·        10th October 2024 at 12 noon

·        Interviews w/c 14th October 2024 

If you would like to visit school, in fact we encourage you to visit our brilliant school, please contact Barbara Clarke, School Business Manager on 07375 324661 or via email to: bc@st-cecilias.lancs.sch.uk who will arrange a visit with Headteacher, Mrs Helen Hall

Completed applications should be emailed to Barbara Clarke, School Business Manager to bc@st-cecilias.lancs.sch.uk or posted to the school address:

St Cecilia’s RC High School, Chapel Hill, Longridge. PRESTON. PR3 2XA.

Please note that in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, an online search will be carried out as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.

This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure with the DBS St Cecilia’s Catholic High School is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to ensuring the safety of all its children and young people

Please note only Catholic Education Services application forms will be accepted.