Head of Social Sciences and Health and Social Care

Start date: 1st September 2024 or sooner if possible

Head Of Social Sciences And Health & Social Care

Permanent Full Time/0.8

We seek to appoint a dedicated and inspirational Head of Social Sciences & Health & Social Care to join our committed, successful and supportive team. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that inspirational teaching makes learning exciting and relevant and that the curriculum is engaging, effective and supports our learners to achieve excellent outcomes. They will have a clear vision for what constitutes excellence across Psychology, Sociology and Heath & Social Care and will have a commitment to building interest and enthusiasm for Social Sciences across the school.

The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom practitioner with a proven track record of supporting learners to make progress. They will be a reflective individual with a good understanding of effective pedagogy, informed by research. They will have excellent interpersonal and organisational skills and will actively support and develop colleagues.

The Head of Social Science and Health & Social Care will lead on the quality of teaching and learning, the curriculum and assessment across KS4 and KS5 in the department, working closely with the Head of Faculty.

The school is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Services (DBS).

To apply and for further information, please visit our school website www.queenkatherine.org

Closing date for applications: 18th February 2024

Interview date: 28th February 2024

If you have any queries, please contact HR at

applications@thefellstrust.org