Job Details

Hope Academy is a secondary academy school for students aged 11-16. It is a joint Church of England and Catholic academy. There is a trust wide commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all young people in their academies. Hope Academy is situated on a main road, 2 minutes from J23 M6 and 5 minutes from J9 M62, with plentiful buses and within easy access of Manchester and Liverpool; it is approximately 10 minutes walk from Newton-le-Willows train station.

Head of Maths

Ref: SCH-ASMAT-0124 10 day(s) remaining

Establishment: Hope Academy

Location: Hope Academy

Salary: 47472.00 - 51048.00 +TLR1c

Department: Mathematics

Job Type: Full Time

Key Stage: Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4

Closing Date: 22/09/2025 09:00

Interview Date: TBC

Start Date: January 2026 or sooner

Contract Type: Permanent

Contract Term: TTO Plus - Term time only plus weeks

Hours per Week: 32.44

Weeks per Year: 39.000

Pay Grade: Upper Payscale | U1 - U3

The Role

Join our dynamic and committed Maths department! Our amazing students enjoy the subject and the way it develops curiosity, confidence and problem solving. The Mathematics department is passionate, supportive and forward thinking. The department staffing is stable with a mix of experiences. We work together valuing collaboration, creativity and personal growth to get the best for our students, and are a lead school in North West Maths Hubs. After 4 years of improved results, we are delighted that the current Head of department has secured a promotion, leading to a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic and passionate leader to take the team to the next level!

The successful candidate will experience:

• Amazing and appreciative students


• A staff body that acts together as one team and supports each other


• Flexible working for every teacher, leaving site at 1:30pm once per fortnight


• A visible and present leadership team, with a focus on maintaining the highest standards of uniform, behaviour and manners


• An academy that is part of the Department for Education Behaviour Hubs and has been identified as a best practice school nationally


• A teaching and learning strategy that is rooted in latest research, and values creativity actively encouraging the individual teacher to become the best version of themselves


• Investment in people, including weekly personal, subject and whole school CPD


• A state-of-the-art 33 million pound building


• Wellbeing as a priority. For example, free access to the on-site gym, team-building events such as staff rounders, football and tug of war, access to a full-time on-site counsellor, and regular opportunity to provide feedback that is genuinely listened to and acted upon. A friendly leadership team who genuinely want to help

We hope that you wish to join us on our journey.

Benefits

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Related Documents

Letter from our CEO. Head of Mathematics Job Profile. Safeguarding Information. Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo safeguarding checks appropriate to the post in accordance with current Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

All posts in the Trust are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Trust is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are spent unless they are protected under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. For further information please visit the following website What is Filtering? | Standard and Enhanced DBS Checks | Nacro

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Ashton Road
Newton-le-Willows
Newton-le-Willows
WA12 0AQ

Hope Academys vision is to Serve One Another Through Love. Our mission is: working together to inspire excellence, guided by Christian values.

The whole academy community envelop our core values of respect, courage, ambition and hope. Hope Academy prides itself on standing at the centre of our local community, and we are determined to be an academy of which everyone can be proud. Hope Academy is committed to delivering a high quality education to all students, and aims to give them the best possible opportunities to flourish and be successful in their lives. Teachers and support staff are dedicated to making a difference to the lives of our students, through the academy's offering of a wide and varied curriculum. As a faith academy, Hope Academy is committed to fostering an ethos based on gospel values, and considers the spiritual and social development of young people to be as important as their academic progress.