Job Description

St Cecilia's RC High School

Lancashire
31,650 - 49,084 per year

Salary:

MPS/UPS plus TLR 2.2 5,646 - pay award pending for 2025/26

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Start date:

05 January 2026

Apply by:

22 September 2025

Job overview

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Position

: Curriculum Leader of Geography

Start Dat

e: January 2026

Contract Terms

: Permanent

Salary:

MPS/UPS plus TLR 2.2 5,646 - pending TLR pay award for 2025/26

The successful candidate will be joining a thriving and oversubscribed school in all year groups.

Our school is a happy and safe place where pupils thrive. Pupils are proud to be part of our community and the community are proud of St Cecilia's.

During our recent Ofsted Inspection (January 2025) school received Outstanding for Personal Development. The Inspectors commented: "Pupils are polite, kind and considerate. They enjoy the positive relationships that they have with staff, who care for them well. Pupils make a strong contribution to the calm and respectful atmosphere that exists at the school. They are happy here."

In our recent Catholic Schools Inspection (November 2024) St Cecilia's was graded as Outstanding in all areas. The Inspector also recognised: "The exemplary quality of relationships between all members of the community has created a family atmosphere in which every person is highly valued. The pastoral care and well-being for all students, especially those who are most vulnerable, is of a very high standard."

The Governors, Headteacher and Senior Leaders are committed to your professional learning with a culture of research and reading at the heart of what we do, including staff well-being and workload.





The successful candidate will be supported via a well-developed, bespoke professional learning package appropriate to their individual needs and aspirations. In addition, we offer a comprehensive well-being package including free counselling, financial and wellbeing coaching, menopause, and nurse support, 24/7 GP services, stress coaching and physiotherapy as well as our weekly well-being treats.







The successful applicant:Will be an excellent practitioner
Must be able to motivate, challenge and inspire pupils to succeed in Geography
Must be committed to improving the outcomes for all pupils
Will have high expectations of themselves and the pupils


Will have excellent communication skills and the ability to develop and improve practice in themselves and others
Must be passionate about the development and implementation of the Geography curriculum


Will be up to date with relevant pedagogy, apply this to their teaching and promote it to others

Essential Educational Requirements

Qualified Teacher Status Degree or equivalent

Deadline for applications:

Monday 22nd September 2025 at 12 noon

Interviews

Monday 29th September 2025

If you are passionate about Geography education, possess the necessary qualifications, and share our commitment to excellence in teaching, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

If you would like to visit school, in fact we encourage you to visit our brilliant school, please contact Barbara Clarke, School Business Manager on 07375 324661 or via email to: bc@st-cecilias.lancs.sch.uk who will arrange a visit

Completed applications

should be emailed to: Barbara Clarke, School Business Manager to:

bc@st-cecilias.lancs.sch.uk

or posted to the school address:
St Cecilia's RC High School, Chapel Hill, Longridge. PRESTON. PR3 2XA.

Application forms and further information are also available to download from our school website: https://st-cecilias.co.uk/job-vacancies

About

St Cecilia's RC High School

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St Cecilia's RC High School

Chapel Hill, Longridge, Preston
Lancashire
PR3 2XA
United Kingdom

+44 1772 783074

At St Cecilia's, our vision is unified and shared.

We are a caring and Outstanding Catholic school with high standards and expectations for all our pupils, rooted in the Gospel values that we model and build our lives upon.



These qualities were recognised in the school's recent inspections, with

an 'Outstanding' judgment in the Catholic Schools Inspection (November)

and

'Outstanding' for Personal Development by Ofsted in January 2025

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We are expanding - 1.6M of building works were completed in September 2024 with four new classrooms being built and other classrooms being modified. Our pupil numbers continue to rise and we are oversubscribed.



Our GCSE results in September 2025 are some of the best results ever.



We believe all our pupils have the potential to discover, develop and rejoice in their God given talents and abilities, whilst answering to their faith as individuals, and actively responding to God's call to work towards a common good.



We promote forgiveness and encourage resilience, ensuring pupils do not give up and persist in the face of setbacks when they occur.



Our curriculum promotes a broad range of knowledge and skills, allowing each child to discover and pursue their own interests and passions. It equips pupils with the skills and knowledge needed for them to understand, interpret, and flourish in the world in which they live; this goes beyond exam success.



The curriculum is our progression model; instructing our pupils how they can 'better' at each subject.



Our school is a happy and safe place where pupils thrive.



Pupils are proud to be part of our community and the community are proud of St Cecilia's.



We are restless and always looking to improve, but we are not driven by 'fads. Staff are supported to progress professionally through a comprehensive CPD programme that is founded in research.



We continuously strive to provide the highest standards in everything we do. We provide a positive learning environment that enables pupils to learn and teachers to do their job well, through a robust and well implemented behaviour recovery system.



Teaching and Learning is the key focus for our school. Teachers work collaboratively to find creative solutions and share good practice. We try to ensure that CPD is driven by need and cohesive, not simply dictated from the top. If something is proven to work, then we will take the necessary time to embed it rather than shifting from one focus to the next.



We provide a robust but low threat system for quality assuring T&L allowing staff the freedom to try new things and not being afraid to fail.



We promote and sustain intellectual curiosity, an enthusiasm for learning from others, for both staff and pupils. We are a great school that do ordinary things extraordinarily well.



Honesty is key to our community; we will always admit where there are weaknesses, promote trust and phronesis at all levels. This is what drives us forward in our pursuit of sustained academic excellence and in the formation of our pupils.



The Governors have a close relationship with the school and are proud to be associated with it.

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