Assistant Curriculum Leader of English
Bruntcliffe Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS27 0LZ5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
21 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
16 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS
Additional allowances
+ TLR2c
What skills and experience we're looking for
Bruntcliffe Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Assistant Curriculum Leader of English. The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching and motivating pupils across Key Stages 3 and 4 to achieve their potential within our teaching programme, including the delivery of our Forensic Reading curriculum, and through participating in our exciting co-curricular programme.
This is an exceptionally important role for us here at Bruntcliffe Academy and the successful candidate will be joining us at a key point in our development. We have a dedicated team of English teachers who deliver consistently strong results which contribute positively to pupils’ futures. We want the successful candidate to have the ambition and skill to support the Curriculum Leader in developing colleagues early in their teaching careers, as well as continuing to refine the English curriculum to ensure it remains exciting and innovative.
The successful candidate will possess a powerful track record as a teacher and will be able to demonstrate the wider impact of their work.
Potential applicants should have:
- Qualified Teacher Status
- A successful record of teaching with strong examination results at one or more of KS3 & KS4.
- A detailed knowledge of current developments in education including the use of the Pupil Premium.
- The ability to put vision into practice.
What the school offers its staff
As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
- Membership to a local government pension scheme.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
- £2k Cycle to work scheme.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
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About Bruntcliffe Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1374 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bruntcliffe Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@bruntcliffe.leeds.sch.uk
Bruntcliffe Academy, previously Bruntcliffe High School, joined The GORSE Academies Trust in September 2015. Along with The Morley Academy, Bruntcliffe is situated centrally in the town of Morley itself. Over the course of recent years Bruntcliffe High School had failed its children and a position had established itself whereby families living on the same streets in the town were receiving a totally different standard of secondary education. The examination outcomes of 2014 and 2015 placed Bruntcliffe High School in the bottom 10% of schools nationally for the achievement of its students. To look at those examination outcomes in detail please go to the Department for Education website. So concerned were parents regarding standards at the school that in September 2014 hundreds of them met to protest to the local authority and the school’s governing body. As a consequence of that action The GORSE Academies Trust was asked to sponsor the school. Bruntcliffe academy over the course of the last 5 academic years has been on an upward trajectory. Ofsted graded Bruntcliffe Academy as Good in 2018 with Teaching and Learning and Leadership and Management graded as Outstanding. Outcomes for young people have improved rapidly, placing the outcomes for young people in the top 13% of schools nationally in 2019.
Bruntcliffe Academy is now a large secondary school due to its improved reputation in the community we are now oversubscribed in all year groups and confident that this will be the case going forward. The majority of students are of white British heritage though the proportion who are classified as being disadvantaged is higher than the national average.
Under the exceptional leadership of its Principal, Laura Moore, the academy will continue to improve at a rapid pace making it an exciting place to work. We are also particularly excited about the current and future building work plans which will not only see improvements to the fabric of the building but also the aesthetics.
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