Leader of Geography

Leader of Geography (Beckfoot Upper Heaton School)

Education Phase: Secondary

Job Role: Teacher

Working Pattern: Full-Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: Thursday, 27th March 2025

Interview Date: 03/04/2025

About Us

1. Our mission is to create remarkable schools where no child is left behind.
2. Established in 2013, we are a well-respected local school trust, completely committed to our inclusive and ambitious mission.
3. We are different from many trusts in that we are diverse in composition; 10 schools: primary, secondary, and special, and this gives us a unique feel as we learn so much from one another.
4. We want our students to love learning and be well placed to do something great with their lives; our values of enjoy, learn, succeed reflect this.
5. We are ambitious for all our children, and we are determined that all can succeed.
6. We value our teams and are committed to the professional development of all.
7. We are proud of the clarity that we have as expressed in our principles of alignment and the value that we place on individual and school diversity.
8. This Trust is determined that everyone has the power to lead and that we serve our local community in action as well as words.
9. All our leaders are committed to being supported and challenged to be better tomorrow than they are today and are genuinely excited about the next phase in our journey to remarkable.

Why Choose Beckfoot Upper Heaton

1. We are a smaller than average Ofsted Good (May 2023) culturally diverse local 11-16 secondary school.
2. We know our students and staff well and we work hard to accept and embrace each other's differences and to live our values of integrity, kindness, and excellence.
3. We are genuinely ambitious for our students and strive to make a difference to the community that we serve.
4. We are committed to being a People-First organisation and we listen to the authentic voice of our community, and we embrace kind and candid feedback as a gift.
5. We invest in the professional growth of our staff.
6. Our school sentence sums us up; it is what we want to be remembered by: the school taught students to act with integrity and kindness so that they went on to demonstrate excellence in their chosen field. It was a place where all belonged.

Commitment to Safeguarding

Beckfoot Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants as part of our overall vetting checks.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, amended 2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain spent convictions and cautions are protected and they do not need to be disclosed to employers. If they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

If you have any questions, please contact

We are seeking to appoint a Head of Geography on a permanent basis. The right candidate will be a highly valued member of our Humanities Team within Team Beckfoot Upper Heaton. We urge you to take the opportunity to visit us or speak to us to find out more.

Recruitment and Retention allowance offered for an outstanding candidate.

As a minimum, we meet national pay and conditions. We have a great reputation as a local employer and we work positively with unions, with an emphasis on fairness and equity.

We are positive about flexible working requests and are constantly seeking out best practices to enhance employee experience.

Our leaders are highly visible and committed to providing calm, purposeful, and motivational environments where teachers can teach, and learners can learn.