Head of Religious Education
Park High School
Lancashire
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS + TLR 2.2 (responsibility for leading SMSC across the school)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 2 February 2022
Job overview
Head of Religious Education
Permanent & Full-time
MPS/UPS + TLR 2.2 (responsibility for leading SMSC across the school)
Required from: September 2022
Closing Date for Applications is noon on: Wednesday 2 February 2022
‘This is a self-improving school driven by an unassuming yet unswerving determination that no pupil is left behind’
Park High School is an oversubscribed 11-16 student community situated in Colne on the border between Lancashire, North and West Yorkshire and has over 1091 students. We are easily accessible and whilst some of our current staff are local, many also travel from Preston and the Ribble Valley, Keighley, Bradford and the surrounding areas.
In September 2018 we jointly formed the Pennine Trust with three of our feeder primary schools. As the lead secondary school within the trust, we have maintained our parental and community confidence. Park High School is the school of choice in the area. We have created a climate of independent learning, embedding a culture where teachers and support professionals can thrive and take risks with teaching and learning are all very much part of our school.
We are a school committed to:
- Raising aspirations and bringing out the best in all students
- Exceptionally high levels of academic achievement and personal development
- Our mission of developing young people with active and creative minds
Park High School will provide:
- Staff who will unfailingly reassure students that by working together there are no barriers that they cannot overcome to achieve their full potential
- Students who strive to attain exceptionally high levels of academic achievement and personal development
- Excellent opportunities for your professional development
- Friendly and supportive colleagues, who go the extra mile
We are looking for a teacher and leader with:
A proven record of raising and maintaining outcomes in RE
Vision, drive and flare as you join our supportive and forward thinking school, Humanities Faculty, Senior Leadership Team, Middle Leaders, teaching and support staff
The ability to consult, devise, communicate, implement, monitor and evaluate improvement with a relentless focus on student outcomes
Relevant qualifications and a record of professional development (both formal and through appropriate experience) to meet the challenge of the job specification
A genuine commitment to making a positive contribution to the school and the Pennine Trust
Park High School is committed to the welfare and safeguarding of children.
Application Pack Information:
Closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 2 February 2022
Application packs can be downloaded from www.park-high.co.uk or for further information email avickery@park-high.co.uk
Electronic applications should be emailed to teacherapplications@park-high.co.uk - further information about the application process is in the application advice section of this booklet
Attached documents
About Park High School
Park High School is a successful 11-16 comprehensive school situated on the edge of Colne and close to the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
There are over 1091 students on roll and we are pleased to be oversubscribed. Our mission is to develop young people with active and creative minds, a sense of understanding and compassion for others, and the courage to act on their beliefs. We are a school committed to raising aspirations and bringing out the best in all students. We stress the total development of each young person and are driven by an unswerving determination that no pupil in our school will be left behind.
Park High School will provide:
- Staff who will unfailingly reassure students that by working together there are no barriers that they cannot overcome to achieve their full potential.
- Students who strive to attain exceptionally high levels of academic achievement and personal development.
- Excellent opportunities for your professional development Friendly and supportive colleagues, who go the extra mile.
Strengths of our school highlighted in our recent Ofsted report include:
- There is a nurturing ethos in the school that creates an environment in which pupils can thrive.
- Pupils are polite and friendly, take pride in their school community, behave extremely well around school.
- Leaders are not afraid to take bold strategic and radical decisions to bring about long-term sustained improvement through visionary leadership.
- The school is driven by an unassuming yet unswerving determination that no pupil will be left behind.
- The work the school does to keep its pupils safe is exemplary.
- The school curriculum is organized into personalised learning pathways in both key stages, enabling pupils to be appropriately supported and challenged.
- The governance of the school is of a very high quality.
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