Teacher of Social Science - Maternity Cover

Salary: Main Pay Scale / Upper Pay Scale

Closing Date: Midday on Friday 7 November 2025

Interview Date: Week commencing 10 November 2025

Starting Date: As soon as possible

Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a vibrant, thriving and leading school in the local area.  (1339 on roll with a Sixth Form of 185) and our long history and excellent community links provide our students with exceptional opportunities. 

As a school, we are immensely proud of our September 2021 Ofsted report which describes our school as ‘Good’ with many ‘Outstanding’ features. “Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a learning community where pupils have great respect for each other. Teachers support pupils to become highly articulate young people who can express their views well on a wide range of issues.”  Furthermore, “Pupils benefit from studying a wide range of subjects. Leaders have put in place an ambitious curriculum. Leaders and teachers have high expectations of all pupils.  Similarly, our November 2023 CSI report states how “Students, staff and parents speak very highly of the ‘sense of family’ that is inherent in this school.”

Our success as a school is known to be rapidly improving and in particular our Social Science department is a proud asset of our strong and cohesive school community.

We wish to appoint a Teacher of Social Science and are seeking a hard-working and committed person with drive, enthusiasm and inspiration who will make a valuable contribution to the school and its achievements.

The successful candidate must be fully qualified to teach within a secondary environment and have a Psychology/Criminology specialism. The role will consist of teaching at KS5.  

The governors are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic and passionate teacher to work within a highly experienced department who are extremely supportive, forward thinking and friendly.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a well-qualified Psychology/Criminology teacher with a record of delivering good and outstanding lessons
• Able to teach Psychology/Criminology at KS5 and have excellent curriculum knowledge
• Have a solid understanding of current educational research
• Have the ability to lead and motivate students
• Have a resilient character and a strong personal drive
• An enthusiastic and passionate individual who can provide first class teaching

We offer you:

• A vibrant school with outstanding facilities.

• An environment where students have an excellent attitude to learning where they can grow academically and personally. Students’ behaviour and safety was judged by Ofsted as ‘Outstanding’.

• Students who, through the wide and diverse academic and extra-curricular opportunities they are offered, grow as individuals and happily contribute to the school community.

• Regular opportunities for staff to collaborate and share best practice.

How to apply:

This role is full time and cover for maternity, with a start date as soon as possible. If this advert incorporates your strengths and interests and you wish to be part of our extremely successful and constantly evolving team, then please see the job description, person specification, application form, child protection policy, code of conduct – Safer working practice guidance, Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 form, consent to obtain reference form, Disqualification Policy, model reasonable adjustments statement available below.

Email application forms and covering letters to Lynn Lewington (l.lewington@cardinal-heenan.org.uk) by midday, Friday 7 November 2025, with interviews to take place week commencing 10 November 2025. 

Applicants from overseas outside the EEA should obtain an overseas criminal check before applying for a visit as the post is in the education sector.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment to keeping children safe. Any offer of employment will be subject to statutory pre-employment checks, including satisfactory references and Enhanced DBS and Barred-List checks. This post is exempt from the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (as amended in 2013 & 2020) and shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose any relevant criminal history prior to interview.

The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.  The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance