Head of Department - Geography - Full-time

Are you an excellent Geography practitioner with a proven track record of success and ambition, with a real appetite for career progression? Mascalls Academy have an exciting opportunity to appoint a Head of Department - Geography to join and lead their friendly and collaborative faculty from September 2025. This is a unique opportunity to join a thriving and collaborative department, leading an enthusiastic team of 4 subject specialist teachers into an exciting new phase of growth and success.
With a growing number of students choosing Geography at GCSE, the department is set for an exciting period of development. We are looking for a dedicated leader to help guide the department as it continues to flourish, ensuring that students engage deeply with the subject and achieve outstanding outcomes.
We provide candidates with excellent career opportunities for those who have ambition and drive, and you'll have access to not only the academy's CPD programme, but you'll also be able to network and build strong working relationships with your peers and talented staff across the wider Trust. As our successful candidate you will build rapport with our students from the get-go and engage them in the subject as well as leading and inspiring an established and successful team of professionals.
We are keen to hear from you if:
+ You are passionate about your subject
+ You have the ability and drive to make a positive impact on students' progress and outcomes
+ You have the drive to transform our learning and are dedicated to raising standards even further for all students
In return we are offering:
+ A supportive and professional environment to be a part of and full embed yourself into from day one
+ The opportunity to teach at Key stage 3, 4 and Post 16 A Level
+ The chance to join and be part of an academy that has a strong, dynamic leadership team whose aim is to achieve excellence for all
+ A team of talented staff at all stages of their career, covering the specialisms assigned to this role
+ Well motivated and receptive learners across our academy
Mascalls Academy is a very special place to work and pre-application visits or phone calls are both encouraged and welcomed. If you would like to arrange to discuss the role with a member of the team, or visit the Academy, please contact Amy Wenban, Recruitment Advisor at amy.wenban@latrust.org.uk

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Mascalls Academy community. As a successful and popular academy, we provide our students with the opportunities within the classroom and beyond to develop into young people who will contribute positively to our local, national and global communities.
At Mascalls Academy, we offer an incredibly wide curriculum, there are twenty seven different subjects being taught at GCSE level and twenty nine subjects at A level. We are also proud to be an International Baccalaureate World School offering the Middle Years Programme in Years 7-9 which is designed to develop happy, inquisitive, rounded, independent, globally aware and resilient young people. Our co-curriculum offers an incredible eighteen lunchtime clubs and twenty one after school clubs alongside teams in football, netball, rugby, volleyball and many more.
We achieve academic excellence and promote the Arts, our Creative Arts National Area of Excellence develops the skills and confidence our students need to succeed through visual art, dance, drama and music. There really is an opportunity for everyone to be happy and succeed here and that underpins the very core of our purpose.
Whilst our academy is large, we support our students by breaking it down into smaller schools, known as colleges. Each college is roughly the size of the average primary school and is headed by a large and dedicated leadership team devoted to the academic and pastoral care of the students within it. We prioritise mental health and well being alongside academic achievement through our on-site provision of Place2be, offering full time individual and group therapy sessions for those who need it. In partnership with parents we work closely through the seven-year journey from the very first day to the confident, knowledgeable and disciplined individuals leaving our academy as young adults.
We have incredibly high expectations of behaviour. Our students are happy, they are polite and show respect. Our behaviour systems promote a discipline within our students that prepares them fully for the world beyond the academy. As an academy, as a community we achieve academic excellence, develop strength of individual character supported by our culture of aspiration and celebrating success. Our rewards system recognises the success of our students through achievement points, Golden Tickets, half colours and full colours. Achievement and progress are rewarded within every lesson.
What underpins all that we do is that we truly care, Mascalls Academy really is a community in the truest sense. Developing successful and happy young people requires a team, and strong and supportive communication between all members of our community is essential to ensure this. Our students are balanced and compassionate young people who care for one another and have pride in what we all achieve each and every day.
Thank you for reading and I hope we will be welcoming you to the Mascalls Academy community in the future.