Head of Faculty – English and Humanities

Hours: Full-time (part time options considered)

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £46,000 - £66,000 ML4 pa plus benefits depending on skills and experience

Start date: September 2026

Applications are invited from experienced Heads of Departments to lead our brand-new Faculty role of Head of English and Humanities.

As Head of Faculty for English and Humanities, you will provide strategic and professional leadership across the faculty, ensuring consistently high standards of teaching, learning, and curriculum provision. You will lead, inspire, and support subject teachers to secure excellent outcomes for all students, promote a culture of continuous improvement, and model exemplary professional practice. Your responsibilities will include overseeing the effective use of resources, driving curriculum development in line with school policy, monitoring and evaluating the quality of teaching and assessment, and ensuring that faculty priorities align with whole school aims. You will also play a key role in staff development, performance management, and the creation of a collaborative, ambitious, and innovative learning environment.

To be considered for this key role, you will be an inspiring and innovative teacher with proven leadership experience, capable of delivering lessons that combine academic rigour with excitement and energy. Equally important are your leadership skills and your ability to motivate and empower both staff and students to achieve their full potential.

English and Humanities are an important part of the academic curriculum at Brighton Girls. If you believe you have the skills and experience to contribute to the continued success of English and Humanities at Brighton Girls we would be delighted to hear from you.

Why join Brighton Girls?

As a founding school of the Girls’ Day School Trust, Brighton Girls holds a distinctive place in the history of girls’ education. Situated in the heart of Brighton, we encourage our girls to be Kind in character, Bold in ambition and Resilient in the face of challenge. 

As part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, our staff benefit from our 140-year history of excellence and innovation in girls’ education, with many opportunities to share ideas and best practice with colleagues across the network. They have access to an extensive central training and professional development programme to compliment school-based INSET and also funding grants for individual courses of study.

Benefits include: 

• Competitive salaries and pay progression

• Access to extensive professional development opportunities

• Training grants for qualifications

• Generous pension schemes

• Free life assurance benefit

• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools

• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans

• A Cycle to Work scheme

• Competitive terms and conditions of employment

 The closing date for applications is 8th April 2026 at 12.00.

The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.