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  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    14 July 2025 at 3pm

  • Date listed

    9 July 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

English

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

TLR 2A (£3390.00)

3ic English KS5 job summary

Do you want to work in brilliant, cohesive, collaborative department where teaching and learning are second to none?

If so, we are looking to appoint an ambitious and innovative teacher to help lead our highly successful English team. This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop your teaching skills and work within an inspirational team. You will be joining a highly successful department; our results frequently place us in the top 10%, and often 5%, of schools nationally for progress. The department offers A Level English Literature in the Sixth Form. Inclusion is at the heart of our practice, and we strongly believe in mixed-ability teaching.

The TLR we offer as part of this post is highly competitive in light of the central role you will have supporting in a core subject.

Who are we?

We are a massively oversubscribed mixed multi-ethnic school that has had five outstanding OFSTED inspections in succession, most recently in March 2024.  

At The Compton we understand that our brilliant teachers make a difference to the life chances of our students every day by helping them to secure outstanding outcomes. We always strive to appoint the very best teachers and once in post we provide a workplace environment that ensures their needs are fully met now and in the future. 

The Compton School is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are proud of our diverse school community, and we are committed to delivering our ethos of ‘Excellence for All’ in an inclusive and supportive working environment in which everyone is valued.   

Are you the right person to join our team? If so, we would be delighted to hear from you.

The Compton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
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Commitment to safeguarding

The Compton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About The Compton School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1349 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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The Compton school is part of Middlesex Learning Trust, a successful Multi Academy Trust. We are a hugely oversubscribed mixed multi-ethnic school that has had four consecutive outstanding OFSTED reports, the most recent being in January 2018. The Compton has a national profile for excellence in teaching and learning, in leadership, and for student outcomes. It is also a School-Centred Initial Teacher Training Centre and the Headteacher is an experienced National Leader of Education. Students at the Compton make exceptional progress - our results routinely putting the school within the top 5% of schools nationally for progress.

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