Head of Psychology
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2023
- Apply by:
- 8 February 2023
Job overview
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and ambitious individual to take the lead as Head of our Psychology Department.
As Head of Psychology, you will assume overall responsibility for the leadership of the department, overseeing an inspiring and challenging curriculum, whilst ensuring that the school's high standards of teaching and learning are delivered. You will be joining the department at an exciting time, as we seek to reintroduce Psychology at A Level. This provides a rare opportunity to approach the role with a blank slate, working with Senior Management to establish a new and dynamic Psychology Department within our Sixth Form offering.
We expect you will be a natural and comfortable leader, both confident in collaborating with and leading a team, maintaining excellent decision-making and communication skills. You will provide essential experience of teaching KS5 Psychology, pairing this with a good degree in Psychology as well as qualified teacher status. You will be able to provide a key understanding of professional developments within your subject area, including awareness of the national and examination curricular requirements within your department.
About the School
One of London’s top day schools, Wimbledon High School is a highly academic school for girls aged 4 to 18, located in the heart of Wimbledon, less than 20 minutes from central London. Our motivated students are challenged to believe in themselves within a stimulating environment and there is a ‘can-do’ attitude throughout the school, with girls involved in all sorts of clubs and activities.
Benefits
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further details and to apply for this position please click the apply button.
The closing date is 8th February at 9.00am and interviews will be held on Friday 24 February 2023.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included. Please see: https://www.gdst.net/about-us/undivided/ and https://www.wimbledonhigh.gdst.net/community/diversity-and-inclusion#:~:text=At%20Wimbledon%20High%20School%20we,High%20School%20for%20their%20daughters
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About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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