Job type
PermanentLocation
CastlefordWorking Pattern
Full-timeSpecialism
Secondary TeachingIndustry
Education & TrainingPay
Paid to scale
Director of Science needed in a Castleford school.
Airedale Academy
Director of Science
Salary: L7 – L11 (£54,816-£60,488) + £3000 Recruitment & Retention for 3 years
September 2024
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Director of Science to join our team from September 24.
This is an exciting opportunity which will enable you to develop your leadership skills by working both within the science department and across the academy to raise standards in teaching and learning.
Why Us?
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build a well-established, highly collaborative and successful team.
- Through the consistent modelling of high-quality teaching and learning and coaching of colleagues, you will have a direct impact in developing the science department and grow our talented science team to secure the very best outcomes for students at our academy.
- The Science faculty is based in its own accommodation and comprises of 7 labs, supplemented with prep rooms and technician support.
About Northern Ambition Academies Trust:
- As a Trust, we place people at the heart of everything we do. Our organisation is driven by a strong moral purpose. We are first and foremost an educational charity established to benefit children and local communities.
- The Trust has a collaborative network both internally across our family of schools but also externally with other education providers across West Yorkshire and beyond. The Trust currently comprises four schools across the primary and secondary phases, with plans for future growth and the opportunities that brings. Airedale Academy has solid finances and rising student numbers over the next few years.
- CPD opportunities are readily accessible internally and via the National College, Every E-Learning Platform and subject specialist associations. The Trust has a collaborative network both internally across our family of schools but also externally with other education providers across West Yorkshire and beyond.
- We understand the importance of our colleague’s wellbeing and offer a range of benefits including:
- Access to the Trust’s Employee Assistance Programme providing a range of health and wellbeing resources and experts.
- Our commitment to staff wellbeing (as shown by our Wellbeing Awards for Schools and school-based Staff Wellbeing Ambassadors who are all trained Mental Health First Aiders).
- Trust wide commitment to reducing the workload of all staff through the use of Technology (both hardware and software).
- The provision of informal staff workrooms.
- Access to the Trust’s new Fitness Suite (based at Airedale Academy) from September 2024.
We would encourage you to visit us so that you can see for yourself what our Trust has to offer you. Please contact our Recruitment Partner at Hays Education by email michelle.audis@hays.com
or by telephone on 07840047154 for an application pack, to organise a visit or for a confidential discussion.
or by telephone on 07840047154 for an application pack, to organise a visit or for a confidential discussion.
Closing Date: 16th April 2024
